The official historical marker for Leo Frank has been absent from its location in Roswell, GA going on two years now due to a DOT road project, but, ...(More)
Atlanta Studies Event 08/13/15 7pm
I'm thrilled to be presenting about I Am The Mountain next Thursday, August 13th at 7pm at one of Atlanta's finest, Manuel’s Tavern, as part of ...(More)
Founding Mothers
I met a self-described Constitutionalist the other day at the mountain and had a fairly amicable discussion in person despite our radically different ...(More)
Lower the Confederate Flags at Stone Mountain for Good
It’s 2015, and not one—but four!—Confederate flags still fly at the base of Stone Mountain, once an official bastion of white supremacy, when the ...(More)
The View of Shermantown
Shermantown is the historic African-American community located in the City of Stone Mountain. Sometimes on my way to climb the mountain, I hang a ...(More)
Like A Rolling Stone Mountain
When Sir Michael Philip “Mick” Jagger, the bandleader of the “World’s Greatest Rock And Roll Band” gives a shout-out to Stone Mountain to over 42,000 ...(More)
Sam I Am
For the past two months and two weeks, I’ve been mothering my two year-old nephew Sam, and not surprisingly, the mountain has been the stage for so ...(More)
What I Am
I can’t count the number of times I’ve been asked, “What are you?” My dark curly hair, almond-shaped brown eyes, freckles, and olive skin that pales ...(More)
