Atlanta history, race relations, and tolerance — A Christmas Editorial Comment
Leave it to me to be the Grinch. This morning I rolled out of bed and decided to publish a quick feel-good Christmas message. Since Atlanta history is a life-long…
Leave it to me to be the Grinch. This morning I rolled out of bed and decided to publish a quick feel-good Christmas message. Since Atlanta history is a life-long…
This is the fourth installment in a series of articles on the history and current state of Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery. In 1904 the notorious Georgia outlaw Taylor Delk was buried…
This is the second installment of a series on the history and current state of Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery. The sky was clear and the temperature pleasant as the crowd gathered…
This is the first of a series of articles tracing the history of Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery. I’ve been fascinated with Hollywood Cemetery for over ten years. It’s a large cemetery…
The initials ‘GHS’ looming down from a smokestack at Roosevelt High School might not seem like a very big problem with the passage of time. But for the students at…
In 1952 the City of Atlanta tripled in size, annexing areas to the south, west and north. To the west the communities near and along the Chattahoochee River became part…
There is a guideline in journalism: “Don’t bury the lede.” A lede, sometimes spelled “lead”, is the opening of a news story. It’s the part that gets you interested in…
I read through historic newspapers regularly, with an emphasis on articles from the River Edges target area of west Atlanta and South Cobb. I stumbled across this mysterious little blurb…