Since the news broke that Jimmy Carter has entered hospice care, people across the state have been sharing stories about Georgia’s homegrown hero and favorite son. We’ve been mining author […]
By Dana Richie The Columbus Museum embraces the charge that educational opportunities should be available to people of all ages. They frequently host events such as school field trips and […]
By Dana Richie The diverse and celebrated Buford Highway corridor north of Atlanta—including the cities of Brookhaven, Doraville, and Chamblee—is home to many multiethnic immigrant communities [...]
By Dana Richie The Thiokol Memorial Museum is dedicated to preserving and sharing the stories of the Thiokol plant explosion: honoring and learning from the first responders, 570 survivors, and [...]
By Dana Richie Chattahoochee Valley Libraries has a creative approach to combating low literacy rates. Through their Guys Read program, a six-week book club for fourth-grade boys led by volunteer [...]
By Allison Hutton The Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame calls Hazel Raines the “First Lady of Flight.” This is an accurate description on many counts: Raines was the first woman […]
By Jamil Zainaldin Between 1917 and 1932, some 5,000 lovingly designed and constructed Rosenwald Schools were built for rural African American children throughout the South [see “Bearing [...]
By Jamil Zainaldin By 1917 the Reconstruction that was to have secured freedom and equal opportunity for 4.5 million former slaves in the South had vanished. In its place was […]
By Betty Hollan If you visited Sapelo Island between 1920 and 1968, you may have seen a strong, lean woman briskly walking from one end of the island to the […]
By Chris Dobbs Eugene Bullard was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1895. As an expatriate in France, he became a boxer, soldier, fighter pilot, business owner, and spy. During his […]
