The fiery I-85 bridge collapse back in April reminded me of the approaching centennial of the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 this May 21st and Atlanta’s ...(More)
Archives for 2017
A Range of Reads on World Book Day About Stone Mountain
It’s World Book Day, and as this website focuses on Stone Mountain, a round-up of the wide array of books out there focusing on Stone Mountain seems ...(More)
Willem Kaiser’s Mountain of Training
On April 7th, I ran into nineteen year-old elite road racing cyclist Willem Kaiser on Stone Mountain. He had biked miles from his home in Atlanta’s ...(More)
Good Friday 2017 on Stone Mountain
Some various outtakes and images following another moving Good Friday reenactment of Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) this morning at Stone Mountain. One ...(More)
Sahar, Bilqis, & Aman Are the Mountain
The news today that the U.S. government dropped a bomb on Afghanistan in the Nangarhar Province on the border with Pakistan —a 22,000-lb GBU-43/B ...(More)
17th “Tsantawu” Weather Ceremony on Stone Mountain
Besides putting your two hands together, let's agree there are many ways to supplicate to the gods. On April 7, 2017, I happened upon an offering, ...(More)
Blowin’ In the Mountain Wind
So, too, like water its color, the wind takes the shape of its container. It's in one's ears and line of sight. It elicits a childlike impulse to show ...(More)
Who Is Charlie C. Gholston? New Carving Discovery
Who is Charlie C. Gholston? I’ve been asking myself this since Thursday evening, when my friend Bryan Feldman alerted me to a new carving he’d ...(More)
