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It never returned
When the 1895 Cotton States Exposition opened in Atlanta 120 years ago as of this writing, it represented the culmination of years of planning and fund raising on the part of the exposition’s organizers. It was a big time undertaking costing over $2 million dollars, which, by today’s currency standards, equates to around $57 million […]
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Photo Pick: Sunday in the cemetery by Kelly Jordan
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Maria Saporta & SaportaReport win 2017 Outstanding Public Outreach & Journalism Award
This week Maria Saporta and the SaportaReport were honored to receive the 2017 Outstanding Public Outreach & Journalism Award from the American Planning Association Georgia Chapter. The award recognizes an initiative illustrating how a region or community involves the general public in a planning activity, above and beyond the minimum state or local requirements This category emphasizes […]
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How to get the word out
Consider the question of fire in the early days of Atlanta.
How would anybody who wasn’t immediately affected by the fire know that there actually was a fire? I’m not talking about the “big” fire that resulted from Sherman’s occupation but the everyday, commonplace fires that were all too frequent in a city built largely of wood, a city where cooking and heating were done with fire. A city where passing trains frequently generated sparks that often landed on the rooftops of buildings.
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Photo Pick: East ATL Village – 9/23/17 by Kelly Jordan
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A familiar statue
Samuel Spencer was killed at the age of 59. The accident that took his life happened in the predawn hours of Thanksgiving Day in 1906. Spencer and some of his friends were in Spencer’s private rail car headed for a hunting trip in Virginia. While Spencer and his fellow passengers were asleep, his railcar became […]
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Photo Pick: Chalk it up to Park(ing) Day – Broad St. Sept. 15 by Kelly Jordan
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Photo Pick: Art Party at Atlanta Contemporary 8/26 by Kelly Jordan
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They came from far and wide
Last year (2016), the City of Atlanta booked somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 conventions, meetings and events, which drew around 52 million visitors to our city. Atlanta is most definitely a major player in the world of event planning and, if you think about it, it is a role that the City of Atlanta comes by quite naturally. Hospitality is deeply ingrained as a part of Atlanta’s culture.
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Photo Pick: DragonCon 2017 – Parade setup. by Kelly Jordan
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Photo Pick: Eclipse upclose at Fernbank Science Center by Kelly Jordan
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Unknown stories of everyday people
At the intersection of Memorial Drive and Boulevard sits Oakland Cemetery, the City of Atlanta’s first official burial grounds. Established in 1850 on an original six acres of land, Oakland now spans 88 acres and is home to thousands of residents. Among them are names familiar to most generations of Atlantans, a “who’s who” of […]
