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)
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)
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)
An Uncrowned King: Uncovering the Bridges of W.W. King
Less than two years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed of freedom ringing from Stone Mountain in his 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech, another ...(More)
See Mountains Beyond Mountains From Stone Mountain
“What’s over there?” “What’s that?” Questions one overhears a lot on top of Stone Mountain — especially on a clear day with its 360-degree view. ...(More)
Cat Colony at Stone Mountain Park in Jeopardy
The first time I saw a cat on Stone Mountain several years ago, I regarded it as an anomaly and quite a curiosity. I even posted a photo to social ...(More)
