Earlier this month, new DeKalb County School District (DCSD) Superintendent Dr. Devon Horton met with the press to announce his plans for a successful school year. Horton was appointed superintendent on Jun. 29 and began work on Jul. 1. He began his address by announcing this year’s theme, “disrupting for excellence.” He says the theme references […]
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Atlanta History Center’s Stone Mountain film is right medium for a myth-busting message
“I think it’s an innovative approach to the museum working outside its walls,” said the Atlanta History Center president and CEO.
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Atlanta History Center to debut film about Stone Mountain’s Confederate monument
The Atlanta History Center is premiering its first-ever documentary film looking at the history of the Confederate monument carved on Stone Mountain.
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Stone Mountain’s 54th Yellow Daisy Festival: Art, music and fall blooms
To celebrate the blooming season, Stone Mountain Park is hosting its 54th annual Yellow Daisy Festival — a four-day event filled with art, music and classic fair foods.
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Windows into Southern culture: High Museum photos, future Stone Mountain museum
Stone Mountain’s role in the culture of the South is to be explored at the High Museum of Art in photographs that are part of the upcoming exhibition, “Picturing the South: 25 Years.” A future museum at Stone Mountain Park is to provide another perspective.
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Juneteenth: Where to celebrate and why
Several events are scheduled to commemorate the holiday that celebrates the official end to slavery all over the metro area. By Allison Joyner With the rise of social justice for African Americans currently at the forefront of people’s minds, people are excited to celebrate the upcoming Juneteenth holiday all over the Atlanta metro area. “The […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: Atlanta Public School gets new name, an ode to Hank Aaron
On April 15, 1964, construction began on the Atlanta Fulton County Stadium. Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. chose a 62-acre site near downtown and converted it into a major league sports arena with a price tag of $18 million. The city convinced the Milwaukee Braves to move and become the Atlanta Braves as we know them […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: A good time for Georgia to address Stone Mountain’s Confederate status
Plus, Cobb and Gwinnett look to women, Democrats for local office.
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Stone Mountain, Mount Rushmore, Donald Trump, and the KKK
By Guest Columnist MARK PENDERGRAST, an Atlanta native and author
When I was a child growing up in Atlanta, one of my favorite family outings was the hike up Stone Mountain, a monadnock which rises dramatically to the east of the city. A huge granite “pluton” formed over 300 million years ago, it offers an easy, gradual hike up the southern slope, though we had to take care not to fall over the steep northern edge when we reached the top (there was no guard rail then, as I recall).
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Despite Confederate monument removals, debate over effigies in Georgia still red-hot
Georgia has exorcised some of its Confederate ghosts in recent years, although many still haunt the state’s public spaces, casting shadows in communities that have largely matured since the horrors of the Civil War.
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Stone Mountain Village can be so much more than it is
By King Williams On a very warm Tuesday evening, two days before the Fourth of July, I decided to take a run near Stone Mountain Park. Instead of just simply running at the base of the park, I decided to go through Stone Mountain Village. What I saw next really perplexed me. Vacancies abound, no […]
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Photo Pick: The Sabatelle Home in Stone Mountain by Pat Sartain
Pat Sartain of the GFWC Stone Mountain Woman’s Club shares: The Sabatelle Home on Main Street in Stone Mountain, with it’s beautiful wrap around porch, is one of six houses that will be featured on the GFWC Stone Mountain Woman’s Club “Homes for the Holidays” Christmas Home Tour, scheduled for Saturday, December 12, from 10:00 a.m. […]
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Cachers plan logically to celebrate irrational, extraordinary Pi Day
This Saturday (3/14/15) at 9:26 a.m. plus 53 seconds, Myles Villoria and other high-tech treasure hunters in Georgia will throw pies in each other’s faces. The event is Pi Day, the worldwide celebration of the mathematical constant expressed in the Greek alphabet as π, and the celebrants are geocachers, people who use GPS technology to find stashes of prizes and mementos hidden all over the earth.
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MARTA to open bids today for land in Midtown, Stone Mountain Village
MARTA officials today are slated to open bids for land MARTA intends to sell near the Arts Center Station in Midtown, and an additional property in Stone Mountain.
The minimum prices set by MARTA indicate that a sliver of land in Midtown is significantly more valuable than a parcel in Stone Mountain.
The Midtown site is barely more than a tenth the size of the one in Stone Mountain. The minimum price for this tract is set at about 75 percent of the Stone Mountain parcel, according to bid documents.
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Color Runs: The Peachtree Road Race’s millennial offspring
The Peachtree Road Race on July 4 is rooted in a time when running wasn’t popular. Out on the multicolored, millennial fringes of outdoor recreation for young adults, the clenched-teeth grind is passé.
By turning up the party, color runs have become a popular mixing zone for socializing, sweating, and social media. If anything was tailor made for the selfie and the “unique shareable experiences” craved by the millennial generation, it’s a color run.
