The Atlanta Country Club in East Cobb is once again the venue for the Cobb Library Foundation’s annual “Booked for the Evening” fundraising gala.
It’s set for Friday, June 9, and the guest speaker is author Patti Callahan Henry, the author of 16 historical and contemporary novels, and a podcast host featuring her novels.
She is the recipient of The Christy Award Book of the Year, The Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year.
A resident of the Birmingham area, her latest novel, “The Secret Book of Flora Lea,” was recently published, and is a New York Times bestseller.
It’s the story of a woman who discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II.
The subjects of some of her previous novels include Florence Nightingale, C.S. Lewis and the 1838 shipwreck of the Pulaski off the coast of Savannah
The honorary chairman of the event is Gary Miller, CEO and President of Greystone Power.
The gala takes place from 6:30-10 p.m. on June 9 and tickets may be purchased by clicking here.
The Cobb Library Foundation provides support for the Cobb County Public Library System. For information e-mail: cobblibraryfoundation@gmail.com.
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With Mother’s Day coming on Sunday the East Cobb bookstore Bookmiser will hold a launch event for a mom-oriented novel.
Jennifer Golden is the author of “Anonymous Mom Posts,”and on Saturday she’ll be at at Bookmiser (3822 Roswell Road) from 1:30-3 p.m.
Mimosas and treats will be served, and you can click here to register.
Goldin is a Miami native and an audiologist by training and has done some writing on the side. Now a Dunwoody resident, this is Goldin’s first novel. Here’s what the story is about:
“Laura Perry is fed up with the snarky attitudes of the moms who post on the Hamilton Beach Moms’ social media page. She hopes the new anonymous posting feature will remind this community they are here to support each other. She enlists her friend, Gabriella, to be a co-moderator. While Gabriella is intrigued by the page, she wonders if the virtual interactions are doing more harm than good. She and Laura hatch a plan to organize an in-person fundraising event, hoping to help the moms connect in real life.
“But, as the moms start to reveal their secrets anonymously, irreverent comments pour in, and the page ignites with controversy. With the in-person event approaching, will one mom’s plan for revenge bring the entire community to the brink?!”
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The LM Frame and Gallery is opening expanded gallery space at its existing location at the Shops of Woodlawn (1062 Johnson Ferry Road, Suite 150) and will hold a special ribbon-cutting ceremony later this month to celebrate.
The ribbon-cutting, which is being held in association with the East Cobb Business Association, takes place on May 18 at 5:30 p.m. and the event will include a special art exhibit of local artists featuring Aboriginal works.
The custom framing store and contemporary art gallery is owned by Christophe and Caroline Choquart. Framing work includes traditional paintings, 3D objects, needlework, posters and more.
New Businesses
The following businesses in East Cobb were granted licenses in April by the Cobb Community Development Agency:
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Thanks to Christopher Johns, Walton’s associate band director, for the information and the photos.
The WGI is a competition for color guard teams that in Walton’s category included more than 140 teams. The Walton students were among 20 groups to reach the finals in the Scholastic A Class, and the only team from Georgia to get that far, finishing in 13th place.
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We mentioned in a previous post that the Friends for the East Cobb Park volunteer group that presents special events at the park was working on a new entertainment feature, showing family-friendly movies a few times a year.
What’s being called “Movies in the Park” debuts next Friday, April 14, with the showing of Tom Hanks’ rendering of Fred Rogers in “It’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.”
The film starts at 8 p.m. and like the Music in the Park concerts is free to the public. You can bring food, chairs and blankets.
The presenting sponsor is the Rotary Club of East Cobb, which is adding to an expansive list of community activities.
The Rotary Club holds a Dog Day Run in August that raises more than $100,000 for local charities, and is involved in the Wheeler High School AVID program.
More recently, the Rotary Club agreed to become a charter sponsor of a Boy Scout troop at Mt. Bethel Church, which dropped that status due to insurance issues.
The Rotary Club also sponsors a first responders lunch and organized a forum in 2022 for the East Cobb Cityhood referendum.
Another Movies in the Park event is tentatively slated for the fall.
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The Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center is celebrating its 5th anniversary this year (our story from opening day in late 2017) with a special exhibit of historical photos of the community.
Starting Thursday, April 6 and running through May 13, the center’s art gallery will exhibit scans of historic photos of the Marietta and and East Cobb communities, featured in three large wall collages.
The Cobb County Public Library System said that “drawn from local archives and private collections—including the library!—the images invite you to step back in time and get a sense of the deep roots in Sewell Mill’s neighborhoods.”
Bruce Thompson, the branch manager for the Sewell Mill Library who had a similar position with the former East Marietta Library, provided the photos and had this to say about the exhibit:
“These images will introduce the historic neighborhoods around Sewell Mill Library & Cultural Center to newcomers—and to each other. I’ve solicited and scanned photos and newspaper clippings from Kennesaw State University Archives, Marietta History Center, various local places of worship, and Cobb Library’s own wealth of historic images. The exhibit will include familiar scenes and maybe some that are less so, even for long-time residents.”
The exhibit will be open during regular library hours: Monday-Wednesday 10-8, Thursday-Friday 10-6, Saturday 10-5.
All Cobb library branches will be closed on Good Friday, April 7, and Easter Sunday, April 9. They will be open Saturday, April 8.
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We got a lot of interest from our story last week about the start of the spring Music in the Park concert series at East Cobb Park.
Sunday was to have been the kickoff event for the four-concert series with the local duo The Woodys, but the Friends for the East Cobb Park said Thursday that’s been called off due to an illness in the group.
“Their performance will be rescheduled to a later date this spring,” the Friends group said in a social media message. “We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience or dashed hopes—we were looking forward to it too!”
The other scheduled concerts are April 16, April 30 and May 21.
The Friends group also will begin a new feature next month called Movies in the Park, in which a family-friendly film is shown on a large screen near the pavilion.
Group president Kurt von Borries tells us they’re still working on finalizing a date for that event, but the film is “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” starring Tom Hanks.
That film series is sponsored by the Rotary Club of East Cobb.
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A year ago, The Avenue East Cobb was set to unveil a new St. Patrick’s Day-themed event, but wet weather called it off.
The retail center is planning a belated debut a day before St. Patrick’s Day. “Shamrock” takes place from 6-8 p.m. in the front parking lot (4475 Roswell Road), as redevelopment construction work continues.
Entertainment comes from The Retreat, an Atlanta band that features an “organic” take on party music; a performance by the Drake School of Irish Dance; a bounce house; live llamas; face painting; a photo booth and balloon art.
There also will be a bar run by Drift Fish House and Oyster Bar.
Admission is free, but keep in mind there could be a cancellation due to weather. The forecast for Thursday doesn’t include any chance of rain for now; The Avenue will be posting weather updates on its website and social media channels.
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The Marietta History Center will feature a traveling exhibit from Kennesaw State University’s Museum of History and Holocaust Education starting later this month.
Entitled “World War II: The War that Changed the World,” the exhibit is the final installment of a series of traveling exhibits from KSU that have been displayed at the Marietta History Center (1 Depot Street, near the Square).
The exhibition, which runs from March 21-April 22, explores the war and its broad global impact. Visitors will encounter individuals who experienced the effects of the war and the Holocaust, from rationing to new opportunities to work and to fight and the struggle for survival in Europe increasingly under Nazi control.
The exhibit was made possible with a 2018 grant from the Breman Foundation, which operates a Jewish heritage museum in Atlanta.
The KSU exhibit is included with regular admission to the Marietta History Center. The cost is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and students and free for children under 5 and those with a military ID.
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Local quilter Jan Cunningham, who has won numerous awards for her work, will have some of her pieces exhibited next month in a joint presentation of the East Cobb Quilters’ Guild and the Cobb Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Department.
“Life’s Not All Black & White,” a collection of more than 30 of Cunningham’s quilts, will be shown at the Mable House Arts Center from March 2-30.
Her use of color and applique are demonstrated throughout the exhibit, according to a Quilters’ Club release, which states that “Jan is skilled at putting her own mark on traditional quilting patterns and techniques, a practice she encourages in her students, too.”
The Mable House Gallery (5239 Floyd Road SW, Mableton) is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and there will be a reception with Cunningham on Saturday, March 4, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Admission to the exhibit and reception are free.
The East Cobb Quilter’s Club, which was formed in 1982, has more than 300 members whose aim is to promote the art of quilting.
The group organizes the Georgia Celebrates Quilt exhibit every two years and contributes quilts, placemats and pillowcases to non-profits.
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The 2023 season of CenterStage North Theatre gets underway this weekend with the first performances of “Moon Over Buffalo.”
After COVID-related disruptions the last three years, a full season slate of four featured plays, plus Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” are being produced at The Art-Place Mountain View, the community theatre’s since 1985.
Shows of “Moon Over Buffalo” take place Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at The Art Place (3330 Sandy Plains Road) and continue next Wednesday-Saturday, also at 8 p.m.
Written by veteran Tony Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig, “Moon Over Buffalo” is a comedy about a husband and wife who are failed Broadway actors struggling in the repertory scene in Buffalo.
It’s set during the 1950s, and the Hays have to navigate complicated family matters while learning that film director Frank Capra is coming to see their matinees.
Tickets are $15-$27 and can be purchased by clicking here. CenterStage North is also selling season subscriptions for $110 per seat.
CenterStage North, an all-volunteer organization created in 1974 in Smyrna, will be producing “Til Beth Do Us Part” in May, “Fireflies” in August and “The Outsider,” a political comedy, in October.
More information about those and other performances can be found by clicking here.
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The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival began Wednesday and continues through Feb. 21, and for the first time in several years the Merchants Walk Cinema in East Cobb is among the venues for screenings and other events.
Ten screenings will take place at Merchants Walk (1301 Johnson Ferry Road), including three on Thursday and another on Friday, as part of the 60-film AJFF, which began in 2000.
The others will take place on Saturday and Sunday, including “Israel Swings for Gold,” the story of the Israeli baseball team’s participation in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
It will be the world premiere for the 75-minute film, which will be shown at 11 a.m. at Merchants Walk, and whose showing there and two other venues at the festival is being sponsored by the Atlanta Braves.
Since there was no media due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Israeli players shot their own videos that formed the core of the film, a sequel to a 2017 film chronicling Israel’s run in the World Baseball Classic.
Other films to be shown at Merchants Walk include “Hummus Full Trailer,” with a storyline described as a “zany gangster comedy caper” that features “a mix-up in Haifa links a cesspit of nutty Middle East sorts.”
In “Remember This,” actor David Straitharn plays a World War II hero Jan Karski, a Polish Catholic diplomat who warned about Nazi atrocities that fell on deaf ears.
The full schedule of screenings at Merchants Walk and other venues, as well as ticket purchases, can be found by clicking here.
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East Cobb resident Suzanne Tucker has been named the new executive director of the Georgia Symphony Orchestra.
A former public school music teacher, Tucker also has 18 years of leadership experience in church music, including as director of music at Mt. Bethel UMC.
She will assume her new role on Jan. 9, 2023, according to a GSO release.
“I am thrilled to become a part of the Georgia Symphony Orchestra family,” she said in the release. “I strongly believe in the creative vision of this organization. I am convinced that music is a powerful tool for fostering connection, and this connection is sorely missing in our world today.”
The GSO, based in Marietta, is a 71-year-old community music organization that conducts year-round musical events, including educational opportunities for youths, and more than 500 professional musicians and students currently performing in its ranks.
GSO includes a full orchestra, as well as choral and jazz ensembles. Its young musician training program, founded in 2006, includes five orchestras, a jazz ensemble, a percussion ensemble, instrumental chamber ensembles, and a youth chorus for school-age children who are chosen through competitive auditions.
Tucker holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from Shorter College and master’s degree in music education from the University of Georgia. She and her husband Jeffrey have two sons, Jackson and Will.
Michael Knowles, a senior relationship manager with Fifth Third Bank, has been named the chairman of the GSO board.
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(Editor’s Note: Bill Hendrick and I worked at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution but did not know each other during the years we were there together—Wendy Parker)
An idea that was more 25 years in the making came to fruition this fall for East Cobb resident Bill Hendrick when he became a first-time book author.
A longtime journalist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Hendrick reported in 1994 about some artifacts that were discovered at a construction site in downtown Atlanta, including an unexploded shell fired by Union General William Sherman’s troops during the battle of Atlanta.
Hendrick’s curiosity also was piqued by something else: The discovery of Atlanta’s leading newspaper during the Civil War years.
A visit to that construction area with legendary Atlanta historian Franklin Garrett introduced Hendrick to the story of the Atlanta Daily Intelligencer.
Hendrick and his wife Laura raised two sons in East Cobb, and they graduated from Walton High School and the University of Georgia. Jordan is an attorney in Decatur and Stuart is a writer and teacher in Atlanta.
While Hendrick researched the newspaper issues, Davis, a former East Cobb resident and author of other Civil War-related books, supplied the larger historical backdrop.
They began their collaboration in 2017, and met nearly daily to discuss their work, often at Goldbergs Bagel on Johnson Ferry Road (where this interview was conducted).
The result is nearly 500 pages of text with extensive footnotes and bibliographical information.
“I wasn’t thinking about making any money when we started,” said Hendrick, who left the AJC in 2008 and also was a reporter for the Associated Press in Atlanta.
“I just thought it would be interesting to see how a newspaper covered a war.”
By contemporary standards, the look, feel and reportage of the paper is dramatically different. The Daily Intelligencer published four broadsheet pages each day of pure text. There were no photos but plenty of front page ads and obituaries, and many of the bylines were pseudonyms.
A typical front page during the war (see below) included battle reports, dispatches first published in other newspapers and ads for land, “desired goods” and slaves.
Atlanta’s population during the Civil War was around 10,000 (a fifth of them enslaved), and the newspaper’s circulation was around 3,000, Hendrick said.
The publisher of the paper, Jared Whitaker, was prominent citizen and city council member when the war broke out, and a devout supporter of the Confederate cause.
Those views were frequently reflected in the newspages, which Hendrick said bluntly was a pro-Confederacy, anti-Lincoln propaganda organ (here’s an excerpt).
The Daily Intelligencer struggled to purchase newsprint after its supplier, the Marietta Paper Mill, was burned by Union troops as they approached Sope Creek in July 1864. The mill was targeted because it also printed Confederate currency.
Much of the war-related content in the Daily Intelligencer came from other newspapers that received battlefield reports from correspondents.
The newspaper exchange program that was a forerunner of the modern newspaper content syndicates included the Atlanta paper sending copies even to their Northern counterparts for a time.
But in the Daily Intelligencer, Hendrick noted, “there was hardly any coverage of the the Battle of Atlanta.”
That was due in part to the newspaper evacuating its operations to Macon as Sherman’s troops laid siege to Atlanta.
After the Daily Intelligencer staff returned to town, the building where its office was located—above a liquor wholesaler on Whitehall Street in what’s now Underground Atlanta—had been destroyed by the Union bombardments.
A correspondent filed a dispatch of that incident, writing of a shell fragment that “should I go to Macon soon, I will have it with me, as a moment of the love that is borne for us by our Northern brethren.”
John Steele, the newspaper’s editor, thundered from Macon about Sherman and his troops that “their success in battering to pieces the impenetrable fortress Atlanta, must have given them great satisfaction. The murder of women and children, by fragments of their barbarous shells, will be a gory blot on the savage and unsoldierlike campaign of Sherman the flanker.”
“The news was always late,” Hendrick said of the Daily Intelligencer, including news of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln shortly after the war ended.
During the Battle of Gettysburg, he said, the paper “didn’t admit for days that the South had lost. Initially, they said it was a great victory. But you can only deny it for so long.”
What also foiled the Daily Intelligencer’s narrative were the letters written home by soldiers, as well as messages sent via telegram, from troops and others who witnessed the combat first-hand.
The book includes a telegram the newspaper printed from a Southern soldier writing home to his father that he lost an arm in Gettysburg. That soldier, Lt. William Nesbit, recovered from his wounds and lived to be an old man in Alpharetta and Cherokee County.
When civilians on the home front started getting a different story from what was in the press, Hendrick said, “they started asking questions.”
As to why correspondents didn’t want to use their own names, Hendrick said “I think they didn’t want to take crap from the people they interviewed.
“I’m sure the generals knew who they were talking to but they never saw their names in the paper.”
Hendrick maintains ownership rights to the trade name Atlanta Daily Intelligencer, which was the only newspaper in Atlanta to survive the war.
But it didn’t last long, ceasing publication in 1871, as Reconstruction continued and as Atlanta was becoming, in the words a decade later of Henry Grady, the publisher of The Atlanta Constitution, “the capital of The New South.”
Hendrick updates his registration for the Daily Intelligencer every year with the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.
“I own a newspaper that doesn’t exist,” Hendrick cracked.
The research for the book was grueling—he spent nearly six months combing through the microfilm copies of the Daily Intelligencer at the Atlanta History Center.
“I almost went blind,” he said with deadpan humor. “But it was fun. I was fascinated with how newspapers operated.”
At the age of 75, Hendrick is taking on a new book subject that he’s doing by himself, a history of American newspapers in the 19th century.
“If I live to finish it,” he joked.
Hendrick says the research is a lot easier due to the wealth of information available online. He said he was ecstatic, for example, to find a story about the Alamo on newspapers.com.
“If it takes another four years,” Hendrick said of his current project, “I may be dead.”
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Published buy Amsterdam Publishers, “Hands of Gold” is based on the true-life experiences of her late grandfather, who fled anti-Semitism in pre-Nazi Europe. The novel tells the story of an elderly man, Sam Fox, who has survived many ordeals but who is coming to grips with his past.
As this is happening, “a gold watch from his grandmother, lost and buried during the Holocaust, will find its way back to him. Through this and other blessings, Sam learns to find the silver lining in his everyday struggles by holding onto his loved ones, along with a little self-reliance and even a few miracles.”
Robbins will be in conversation with author and media personality Robyn Spizman at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Marcus Center (5342 Tilly Mill Road Atlanta) in an event that will include an audience Q and A and a book signing. Copies of her book also will be on sale.
To reserve a free ticket for the event, click here.
Robbins developed the novel idea after listening to cassette tapes of her grandfather, who died in 1995, speaking about his life experiences.
The former associate editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Robbins turned that into a column for the newspaper, “Giving Memories a Voice: My Grandfather Left a Piece of Himself Behind as a Legacy to his Progeny.”
She has been a published writer for 35 years, with bylines at Medscape/WebMD, daily and weekly newspapers and as a freelancer for national, regional and online publications.
“Hands of Gold” was a quarterfinalist for historical fiction in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest.
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Ford Smith Fine Art, a fine art studio and gallery started by the Roswell-based husband-wife artist duo of Ford and Christi Smith, will operate a pop-up gallery at The Avenue East Cobb through the end of 2022.
North American Properties, the retail center’s management company, announced that a grand opening will take place Friday from 6-9 p.m. at the Ford Smith pop-up space located between the Sephora and Xfinity stores in the former Simply Mac space.
The event is free and open to the public.
Ford Smith will operate the 3,000-square-foot gallery at The Avenue through the end of December, selling original paintings and fine art limited editions. The hours are Wednesday-Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
NAP said the grand opening will feature the following:
The unveiling of new and limited-edition works, including a brand-new collection of Small Wonders originals, and smaller-size, collaborative “In Concert” mixed media paintings created from an archival giclée of a Ford Smith painting sculpted in glass, dipped in resin, and embellished by Eddie Freeland
Complimentary wine/champagne and bites from local restaurants
Fine art prizes such as a Ford Smith limited-edition, full-size/hand-embellished canvas painting
Special pricing on select artwork (offer only valid during GO)
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The Fall Book Sale will be held at Cobb Civic Center October 14-16, 2022.
Materials for sale include books for all ages in both hardcover and paperback, DVDs, Books on CD and audiocassette, and magazines. Prices range from 10 cents to $4.00. Find a price list here.
Cobb Civic Center is at 548 South Marietta Pkwy SE, Marietta, GA 30060. Hours for the sale are Friday and Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm, and Sunday from 1 pm to 5 pm. There is plenty of free parking.
Acceptable forms of payment are debit, credit, cash, and checks. On Friday until 1 pm electronic devices are not permitted. While we hope you will buy lots of materials, we are only able to sell up to 2 boxes of items at a time on Friday until 1 pm. Please plan to pay and take items to your vehicle before coming in to shop some more. On Sunday we will be working to sell out the Civic Center so please come to buy, buy, buy!
All profits from this book sale go directly to buying more items for Cobb County Public Library’s 15 branches and bookmobile. For more information, please visit cobbcounty.org/library.
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The Marietta-based Georgia Symphony Orchestra has announced what it’s calling a “Give Back” initiative to award funding to music programs in metro Atlanta, specifically in local schools.
According to a GSO release, participating programs will receive 15 percent of all ticket sales associated with their organization through the 2022-23 season.
That season begins Saturday with a “Brass Splash” event. “Give Back” participants will receive their donations at the end of the season, when ticket sales are finalized.
“We want to partner with the community to invest in local schools,” Susan Stensland, the GSO’s interim co-executive director, said in the release. “This initiative perfectly aligns with our mission to enrich our community and to instill and fulfill a lifelong appreciation for the arts.”
The GSO’s 72nd season includes nine concerts and 14 performances, including matinees, and concerts also will include the GSO Chorus and the GSO Jazz ensembles.
For more information and for music program partnership eligibility details, e-mail info@georgiasymphony.org or call 770-615-2908.
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Carolyn Curry, the wife of former college and professional football star and coach Bill Curry, will be the featured speaker at the Cobb Library Foundation’s Sept. 20 “Booked for Lunch” fundraiser at the Atlanta Country Club in East Cobb.
The event takes place from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the ACC (500 Atlanta Country Club Drive) and tickets cost $40 (you can book your spot here).
Curry will discuss her latest book, “Sudden Death,” published on Aug. 2 by Mercer University Press. It’s set between 1966 and 1997 and features a woman lawyer who marries a college football coach, and how the couple handles the challenges of balancing their marriage and dealing with death threats that turn out to be realized.
The book is her debut novel. Curry is the author of a biography of Ella Clanton Thomas, the daughter and wife of Georgia planters who kept a diary during the Civil War years.
Curry received the Georgia Author of the Year Award from the Georgia Writers Association and that book was named as “One of the Books all Georgians” should read by the Georgia Center for the Book.
She also is the founder of a non-profit, Women Alone Together, that provides support, education and friendship to women who are single by death, divorce or choice.
Bill Curry starred at Georgia Tech and the for the Green Bay Packers and coached at Tech, Alabama, Kentucky and Georgia State.
The Cobb Library Foundation is an all-volunteer organization that raises money to assist activities and programs of the Cobb County Public Library System.
They include the system’s summer reading program, Girls Who Code, the podcast studio at the Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center and the Bookmobile.
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