Tag: Decatur Book Festival
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Photo Pick: Decatur Book Festival by Kelly Jordan
Kelly Jordan stopped by the Decatur Book Festival this weekend and captured some of the excitement! Visitors were thrilled to mingle with favorite authors during the 11th annual Decatur Book Festival! (All Photos by Kelly Jordan)
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How to find and hike Atlanta’s hidden forests
Jonah McDonald and his hiking shoes are reinventing our deep-rooted image of a traffic-choked city smothered in asphalt and concrete.
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Move over, big profit Amazon. Make room for Little Free Libraries.
A computer will forever spit out a list of “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought….”
But for those of us who want books that tell us stories about our neighbors’ tastes and experiences, and bring us into conversation and community, here’s a recommendation: Little Free Libraries.
Resembling large birdhouses, the Little Free Libraries are weatherproof cabinets with a couple of dozen books inside. Borrow one, read it, bring it back, or bring another. No cards, no fines.
It’s the charm of yard art, the wonder of a message in a bottle, sprinkled with the spell cast by a deft writer.
