It was unseasonably cold when I saw Master Sergeant Andrew Keene of the Georgia Army National Guard...
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"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.”
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Brothers Bill and Bob Mayer have been climbing Stone Mountain for the past four decades.
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Karuna Kristjanson, originally from Mizoram, India, is a licensed clinical social worker and runs Red Lotus Recovery for recovering addicts.
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There's still stardust on my shoes from the early morning trek...
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“The Staff of God!” I playfully declared when I spotted Father Greg Kenny, 82, heading up Stone Mountain this morning with a walking stick.
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Ponlen Kang an immigrant from Cambodia, doesn't travel abroad, because he worries he won't be let back into the U.S. if he does....
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Just before sunset tonight I met two young Lubavitcher Jews, Menachem and Tzemach, who's visiting from Chicago.
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With twenty minutes to spare before sunset last night, I saw a bearded man in a kilt starting up the walk-up trail at Stone Mountain. Of course I had to chat him up...
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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.
