Spring Symposium: Think Native! The Rosalynn Carter Butterfly Trail annual Spring Symposium will take place on Friday May 4 in Plains. This year's theme is "Think Native!" Native horticultural treasures of Georgia, gardening and bees, and monarchs and milkweed across Georgia are among the topics to be explored. The event is cosponsored by Plains Chautauqua […]
Lunch and Learn: Historic Preservation in the City of Atlanta: Find Out How It Works and What Is Going On Now! A lunchtime lecture on historic preservation in Atlanta will be given by Douglas Young, assistant director for historic preservation, in the City of Atlanta's Department of City Planning. (Read more about historic preservation in […]
Lunch and Learn: History Alive! Tours and Programs at the Northeast Georgia History Center Ken Johnston, curator of education at the Northeast Georgia History Center in Gainesville, will give a lecture on tours and programs at the Center. Bring your lunch to this free event. This is a community event.
Avondale Towne Cinema Short Docs Festival: Water Stories At Water Stories, seven short documentary films will be shown, including films about water monitoring of the Chattahoochee; memories of the Creek people who once lived in the region; a Gulf of Mexico sailboat adventure; springs in Florida; and the frog-harming pesticide Atrazine. A talk-back will take […]
2018 Susie King Taylor Mami Wata Rising International Conference The Susie King Taylor Women's Institute and Ecology Center is sponsoring a two-day conference on Susie King Taylor and her place in history. Taylor was the first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves in Georgia. As the author of Reminiscences of My Life in […]
Lunch and Learn: History of the Atlanta Braves: More than 145 Years of Braves History and Their Move to SunTrust Park Carolyn Serra, senior director of ballpark tours at Braves Heritage and Hall of Fame, will give a lecture on the Atlanta Braves and the team's new baseball park. Serra served as the director of […]
Power to the People: Celebrating 80 Years of Rural Electricity Witness a reenactment of FDR’s speech on the grounds of Gordon Military College in Barnesville 80 years ago for the dedication of the first rural electric membership cooperative. This event opens an exhibition on rural electrification in Georgia. Special guests include Wayne Clough, former secretary […]
Join us at the AJC Decatur Book Festival, the largest independent book festival in the country, for the Humanities track, sponsored by Georgia Humanities, and more. On Friday evening, Broadway actor/director and Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon will deliver the keynote, kicking off this year's festival. On Saturday and Sunday, authors will discuss their books at […]
Georgia Archives, 100 Years: Where We Are Now A behind-the-scenes tour of the archives, "Flattening the Counties of Georgia: Creating Access to Court Records," will allow visitors to see 18th- and 19th-century court records currently undergoing preservation in the Conservation Lab. Tour is free; no registration needed. Please wear comfortable shoes. This is a community […]
Lecture, "Found: The Empty Freckle Cream Jar of Amelia Earhart" The poet Nikky Finney will give a lecture sponsored by Georgia State University's Humanities Research Center and held at the GSU Law School auditorium. Finney is a professor at the University of South Carolina and the author of Head Off & Split, winner of the […]
