Okeh, okay, unpopular opinion alert. I love old buildings. Ones with unique back stories even more. I generally don’t patronize chain restaurants and ...(More)
Moore’s Ford Mass Lynching at 73
The gruesome Moore's Ford lynchings occurred 73 years ago today, and while the brutal murders of George W. and Mae Murray Dorsey, and Roger and ...(More)
Walker Hancock, A Monuments Officer In Stone Mountain
Now wrap your brain around this one, on this the 75th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. The final renowned sculptor awarded the ...(More)
Happy 100th Birthday, Lawrence Ferlinghetti!
"I Am Waiting" is a 61 year-old 'oral message' found within A CONEY ISLAND STATE OF MIND by Lawrence Ferlighetti, who's 100 years reborn to wonder ...(More)
In Bloom With Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker, & Valerie Boyd
Writers converge upon my mind today, like "tale"winds of March. Today marks the centennial of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's rebirth of wonder. 100 ...(More)
“Framing Shadows/Framing Lives: A Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation”
Last Saturday I arrived early for a research appointment at Emory's Rose Library, so I took the stairs up to the third floor of the Woodruff Library ...(More)
Banned Books Week | Flannery O’Connor & Stone Mountain
Banned Books Week (Sept. 23-29, 2018) is as good a time as any to bring up one of Georgia's and the nation's most praised Southern writers, Flannery ...(More)
“Dutchy” Statue Toppled By Confederate Veterans in 1900
Many consider the removal of Confederate statues a recent reckoning. But “Dutchy” may’ve actually been the first to topple back on August 14, 1900. ...(More)
