PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT
Crossroads: Change in Rural America
This Smithsonian Institution Museum on Main Street traveling exhibition explores the roles our rural communities have played in shaping the American cultural landscape.
WHAT’S NEW?
- November 16: Opening of Material Georgia 1733–1900: Two Decades of Scholarship (Athens)
- November 21: History, Memory, and Georgia’s Native People (Atlanta)
- December 9: Reading with Chelsea Rathburn (Monroe)
- December 9: 1900 to 1940: Early Jazz (Savannah)
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The “forever” of Flannery O’Connor
The art of Georgia writer Flannery O’Connor lies in her ability to condense the heaviest of thoughts about life and purpose into the commonplace of stories.
The slave dwelling project
The 21st-century idea of sleeping in a slave cabin from the antebellum era is at first challenging to the mind and the memory. What’s the point? Who would choose to do this? But this is exactly what Joseph McGill Jr., the founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, does.
An award for all mankind, a dinner for one—the Atlanta Nobel Prize party for MLK, given by the city’s image-conscious white leadership
On October 14, 1964, the Nobel Committee announced that thirty-five-year-old Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Georgia roots of one of the 20th century’s most successful songwriters
Music- and film-making are thriving businesses in Georgia now, but Georgia native Johnny Mercer—writer of such memorable songs as “Glow-Worm” and “Jeepers Creepers,” which were wildly popular in their day—successfully blended both during his long career.
