If you live in Metro Atlanta, you may have driven by it countless times without ever noticing it. On Old Peachtree Road, just east of I-85, stands a marker commemorating a plane crash that most now in Gwinnett never knew happened. In 1953 the area east of what is now I-85 near Suwanee was extremely rural, with the landscape dotted with just a few homes. Drive east toward … [Read more...] about Gwinnett’s 1953 Four Jet Crash
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A Dark Day for the Atlanta Art World
February 23, 1959 was immortalized as "The day the music died" by Don McLean in his classic "American Pie." In Atlanta, one could easily say that June 3, 1962, could have been the day the same happened to the art world. This city has consistently refused to succumb, and on this day, the community needed that trait. The Atlanta Art Association was expanding rapidly in the … [Read more...] about A Dark Day for the Atlanta Art World