Sherman Elliott, III, of East Atlanta, is about to hike the Appalachian Trail in March 2015, and has been doing a lot of training...
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Mehran and Zuhaib are cousins from Kashmir, currently studying computer science at New York Tech, and they have been in the U.S. for eight years.
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"Scattered, Smothered, & Collared" is actually part of a larger piece about Jen here and her best friend Christina...
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Too funny, here we were outside, and these two had met in Outdoor Education class at Spelman College, where Ryoko is an exchange student from Kanagawa, Japan.
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When I asked bare-footed and shirtless Bruce, 62, why he recycles when he’s walking at Stone Mountain, he said, “I don’t do it...
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Yesterday at Stone Mountain, I met mountain regular, Luci, a 74 year-old Snellville resident and retired pediatric...
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Marlon from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, has lived in the U.S. for exactly half of his life, and the auto parts store manager has a unique weight loss plan...
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The highest mountain is Togo is Mount Agou, but Poker (pronounced: pok-eh) Kangi, wearing a “2004 American All-Stars” T-shirt, has never climbed it...
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"I can tell absolutely nothing about you but that you're Muslim," I said to Sakeenah, her 3 year-old daughter Amatullah by her side.
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Esther, 21, of Lancaster, PA, is a member of one of the Plain people groups and had never been to Stone Mountain before.
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When I stopped to talk with James Allen, 65, about the gorgeous mountain view today, it occurred to me that he might very well be sitting...
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Michael Liang (Liang Xio Quiang) from Shenzhen, China, is an executive with Newell Rubbermaid, headquarted in Atlanta.
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It was along the Appalachian Trail where, Elijah, 21, from Vero Beach, FL learned about WWOOFing...
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When I went slightly off the trail looking for deer, I stumbled upon Rachael and Jordan in what the two twentysomethings would later describe...
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Sixty-one years after Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed, “Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia,” a diverse community thrives atop Stone Mountain, a mountain still considered emblematic of Old South racism by some. This website humbly attempts to illustrate freedom ringing at last and celebrates all of the new faces that are reclaiming the mountain.
