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)
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.
Confederacy of Dunces
I was taken aback today to see several people carrying giant Confederate flags on Stone Mountain. As much as I prefer to focus on all of the progress ...(More)
If Charles McNair Could Choose a Color to Be
How fitting that my old friend, author Charles McNair, who was on assignment for The Bitter Southerner, and I met today at Stone Mountain on the ...(More)
Take Care of the Mountain, and the Mountain Takes Care of You
Brothers Bill, 62, and Bob Mayer, 61, originally hail from Alabama but moved to Decatur, GA, in 1963, and have been climbing Stone Mountain for the ...(More)
Sermon on the Mount
The Staff of God!” I playfully declared when I spotted Father Greg Kenny, 82, heading up Stone Mountain this morning with a walking stick. “I ...(More)
Pon from Cambodia
Ponlen Kang, 38, an immigrant from Cambodia, doesn't travel abroad, because he worries he won't be let back into the U.S. if he does, because he's not ...(More)
Go Sign it On the Mountain
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 ...(More)
A Tale of Four Tzitzis
A month ago, I asked native Atlantan Michael Cenker, 63, a Georgia Tech graduate, with a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering, to explain the ...(More)
