Memoirist and nature writer Janisse Ray recounts and redeems her unique upbringing in a junkyard near the Altamaha River. Her book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, is the inspirational embrace […]
Poet and writing teacher Carlyn Bland explores the many and varied literary reactions to rivers and marshes, coastlines and beaches, islands and estuaries. Using Lanier's "Marshes of Glynn" as a […]
Historian and policy expert Chris Manganiello demonstrates how through the centuries humans have exploited Georgia's rivers to fit their needs. He shows that rivers can give or take away the […]
Environmental historian Will Bryan examines the history of the Savannah River from the pre-colonial era to European settlement and into the modern day. He also contextualizes the historic city of […]
The 1803 mass suicide of enslaved people at Glynn County's Dunbar Creek is recounted by historian Dionne Hoskins-Brown. She reveals the desperation of slavery through lyrical motifs about the Back […]
This Georgia Seminar will take a behind-the-scenes look at the nationally recognized prison education program, Common Good Atlanta (CGA), founded by Sarah Higinbotham of Oxford College and Bill Taft. Since […]
The seminar will bring together Common Good Atlanta alumni to share their experience s and the program’s impact on the community. The following topics are ripe for discussion: efforts of those […]
The seminar will bring together Jamil Zainaldin, Emory faculty, and Common Good Atlanta founders Sarah Higinbotham (Oxford College) and Bill Taft, to share their experience s and the program’s impact […]
The seminar will bring together Common Good Atlanta faculty from Morehouse, Georgia State State University, and Georgia Tech to share their experience s and the program’s impact on the community. […]
Join Georgia Humanities and the Auburn Avenue Research Library for a discussion of the book Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, by Winfred […]
