Grand Opening Festivities for Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America exhibition Pep rally begins at the downtown amphitheater at 9:30 a.m., followed by an old-fashioned parade through downtown Carrollton. The opening ceremony begins at 11:00 a.m. on Carrollton’s Main Street.
Hometown Heroes: Sports and the 8th Grade Economics Standards Georgia Council on Economic Education presents a day-long teacher workshop focusing on the intersection of Georgia’s multi-billion dollar sports industry and economic concepts addressed in the Georgia Performance Standards. Register by December 1.
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia," by Kaye Lanning Minchew Minchew, author of A President in Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia, will deliver a Lunch and Learn lecture about Roosevelt and his Georgia holiday traditions.
This month, the group will read “Veterans,” by Bryan Humphreys.
Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America exhibition This Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition explores what sports and “hometown teams” mean to Americans, Georgians, and local communities. Hometown Teams is on view in Jefferson from January 14, 2017, through February 25, 2017.
Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism, and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch exhibition
This exhibition explores Billops and Hatch’s commitment to speaking truth to power and exploring the meaning and purpose of African American art.
"African American Young Men in Jails and Wars: Walter Dean Myers’s 'Monster,' 'Fallen Angels,' and 'Sunrise over Fallujah'" Dr. Pearl McHaney presents part two of the "Connecting Lines: Building Empathy Through Literature" lecture series, sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book. To hear an interview with McHaney by "City Lights" host Lois Reitzes, click […]
In Plain View: African American Women Entrepreneurs of Morgan County exhibition, February 5 - April 30, 2017 Through complicated histories and narratives, documentary photographs, memorabilia, and dialogue, the exhibition In Plain View: African American Women Entrepreneurs of Morgan County, Georgia examines entrepreneurial women of the Plainview community: landowners Anna Charleston, Jessie Andrews, and Katie Lowe. […]
Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America exhibition This Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition explores what sports and “hometown teams” mean to Americans, Georgians, and local communities. Hometown Teams is on view in Jefferson from January 14, 2017, through February 25, 2017.
Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism, and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch exhibition
This exhibition explores Billops and Hatch’s commitment to speaking truth to power and exploring the meaning and purpose of African American art.
