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Death in a Frame

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It’s not often that I stumble upon something that, as a historian, stops my breath for a few moments. It’s even more rare I stumble upon something that stops my breath as a person. Yet, here it was, sitting on a wall in Manuel’s Tavern, an image that made me stop dead in my workflow.… Continue reading →

Memories on the March

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Tucked in a corner, near the narrow hallway leading from the second dining area and bar to the kitchen in Manuel’s Tavern is a framed copy of the front page of Creative Loafing, from April of 1999. To a passing observer unfamiliar with Inman Park, Virginia Highlands, and Morningside, the headline is nonsensical: “25 Years… Continue reading →

Great Flying Corn-Cobs, Batman!

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So, the topic of this month’s post comes to be because of half joking comment I made in passing to a friend a few weeks ago. We had been discussing regional pronunciation, and I pointed out the best way to start a fight between an Atlantan, a New Yorker, and a Chicagoan was to bring… Continue reading →

Unpacking Memories

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I grew up in the Morningside-Lenox Park neighborhood, here in Atlanta. I walked home from Inman and Grady, nearly every day of the combined seven years I attended the schools, through the heart of Virginia Highlands. When I started my undergrad work at Georgia State, my group of friends stayed fairly local as well, with… Continue reading →