Back in the day when one could ride into downtown Atlanta on a pony and no one would look twice, a pair of young children made a habit of becoming Peachtree Street regulars. Their father had successfully lobbied one of the world’s richest men to favor Atlanta and the children were determined to take full advantage of a new world that had opened up before them. The father’s daughter, the one he called Peggy, outgrew the pony but Peggy never outgrew the love of her visits to the city, which she continued into adulthood. The knowledge she gained from her downtown excursions paved the way for Peggy to become internationally famous, as we’ll see in this week’s Stories of Atlanta.
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