The World Comes to Stone Mountain, Summit of a New South

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.

Mountain Winterland
February 17, 2015
In a word: transformation. How simply sublime, water turning to ice, even in the very shape of the direction of the wind, transforming Stone Mountain...
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Standing Out in Camouflage
February 15, 2015
I met a man today without a stomach, and Hank says his kidneys are going, too, and, yet, he’s been climbing Stone Mountain...
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A Deer Planet
February 15, 2015
Confession: sometimes I stand for too long over the avocados at the grocery store. I squeeze so many and admit to feeling...
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Biking the Stone Mountain-Atlanta Trail
February 8, 2015
Today I biked from East Atlanta to the mountain along the Stone Mountain Trail on the PATH!
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The Things They Carried
February 7, 2015
"Don't make us look bad, now!’ I razzed Michael Mills, 39, as he literally crawled up Stone Mountain today for the third year in a row.
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The World Comes to Stone Mountain, Summit of a New South

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 long last and to celebrate all of the new faces that are reclaiming the mountain.