Archive Atlanta

This week, I am checking off another Atlanta neighborhood off the list - Ormewood Park. From its start as a single large estate that bred jersey cows, to the 1890s development, annexation, through its current history and unique landmarks and homes.
 
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This week, I am sharing my interview with Peter Bahouth, talking about the Springlake neighborhood, and exploring his treehouse, which AirBnb named it’s #1 “Most Wished For” listing. While we talk about the history of  the Battle of Peachtree Creek, the Springlake neighborhood, its connection to the Klan and the efforts to form a park space that can be accessible to the public, the most impactful part of this conversation for me was Peter’s thoughts about nature and how important it is for all humans, especially now.    
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This week, we’re covering the The Great Speckled Bird, Atlanta’s alternative press that ran from 1968 through 1976. It was one of the longest-running underground newspapers of the era, publishing articles on Atlanta's political leaders, the women's movement, abortion, racial issues, culture and gay liberation. 
https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/GSB
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This week, I am re-releasing an episode from waaaay back in August of 2019, all about Atlanta’s Carnegie Libraries. It's not only a story of where we keep books, it’s also a story of gender, power, race and access to information. Before the age of technology and the internet, books represented knowledge, and knowledge is power. Keeping that power away from people has been a tool used by the ruling party since the dawn of time. Libraries are a physical link to that power struggle and help us tell the story.
 
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This week, I am covering one of my most requested topics, the Science & Technology Museum of Atlanta, better known as SciTrek. I didn’t grow up here and so I love hearing people’s stories of classic Atlanta memories or experiences that really defined their childhood and one of these is definitely SciTrek. The way that current Atlantans reminisce about and their stories of school field trips, etc., makes me wish I could go back in time and experience it. So today we’re talking about the idea of a science museum in Atlanta, the people that made it happen, the early history of SciTrek and all the way through it’s closing.
 
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This week, we’re talking about basketball - from the invention of the game, when it arrived in Atlanta, who played it and where, and all the way into the story of our professional teams today.
 
Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta - and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports
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This week, we’re talking about an Atlanta radio icon - WABE-FM. Located at 90.1 on your radio dial, the station has a fascinating history that dates back to the 1940s. So this week, we’re talking about radio history, the educational radio movement, who funded the station here in Atlanta, who it was for and how it became the public radio institution that we know and love today.   
 
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This week, in honor of the upcoming Peachtree Road Race, we are talking about the origin of the world’s largest 10K and the organization that sponsors it, the Atlanta Track Club. 
 
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Surprise! Yes - I am still on the podcast break and I will be back officially on June 14th with fun new episodes, but while I’ve been gone I was a guest on another amazing Atlanta podcast, Savory Stories. 
Savory Stories is a WABE podcast about Atlanta’s rich stories through the lens of cuisine and food history. It’s hosted by Chef Asata Reid and culinary historian Akila McConnell, and if Akila sounds familiar, she was a guest on Archive Atlanta way back in Episode 68 talking about Atlanta’s culinary history. 
On this episode, we talked about the history and food, past and present, of the west side neighborhoods of Westview, West End and Cascade Heights. This is one of my favorite guest appearances and so I really wanted to get it on my podcast feed to share it with more people!
Culinary History of Atlanta
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This week, we’re talking about Vine City. This neighborhood just west of downtown Atlanta has SO much history, I struggled to fit it all in; from quarries, early German immigrants, to the largest nursery operation in the city, Black amusement parks, so many historic homes, and a prominent role in the Civil Rights Movement, and Dr. King - you do not want to miss this.
 
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