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Friday Oct 29, 2021
Grave Robbing - REPLAY
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Halloween is this weekend, and so I wanted to replay my episode from last year, with Liz Clappin from Tomb With A View. We talked about the history of grave robbing, from the earliest start in this country, to its start in the state of Georgia and then local incidents in Atlanta and Decatur.
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Friday Oct 22, 2021
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
In 1909, Asa Candler, Jr bought 290 acres of land south of Downtown, with the intention of building a racetrack. The Atlanta Speedway lasted only two years, and then the land was used as a small airfield by local pilots. In 1925, the City of Atlanta leased the land for a municipal airport, buying it in 1928. This week, I am covering all the things Atlanta airport - how did it expand, who was it named for, historic terminal buildings and everything in between.
All about Asa Candler Jr.
Flight Path
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Friday Oct 15, 2021
Orphanages
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
This week, I'm covering the earliest orphanages in Atlanta - who formed them, who funded them, where they were and what they are today. From 1866, when the state of Georgia established a lottery to fund a white orphanage, to the institutions for Black and Jewish children.
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Friday Oct 08, 2021
Fannie Springer
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Fannie Springer was a Austrian-born, Jewish woman who moved to Atlanta with her husband shortly after getting married in 1889. After an incident with an Atlanta patrolman in 1900, she turned to dedicating her life to volunteering in prisons and then later obtaining pardons for 44 incarcerated people. This week, I am sharing the brief history of her life and work.
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Friday Oct 01, 2021
”Miss Atlanta”
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Friday Oct 01, 2021
The story of the "Miss Atlanta" pageant coincides with the growth of Atlantic City's "Miss America". Like all things Atlanta in the 1920s, this contest and the choosing of a ‘representative’ of our city, was tied with the marketing of and push to sell the Gate City to the rest of the country. The first Miss Atlanta was crowned in 1923 and this week, I am telling the earliest stories of the winners, the prizes and the history of the pageant.
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