Nov 21, 2025
A History Of The Klan At Stone Mountain
The KKK was reborn on Stone Mountain in 1915 and Klan rallies continued in the town until the late ’70s. DeKalb County Park Ranger Horace O’Kelly still remembers the annual...
Oct 27, 2025
A Look At The Heritage Area’s Historic (And Mysterious) Graveyards
There are two-dozen cemeteries located in or near Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area. Some go back to the Antebellum period, some are still maintained, and others we know surprisingly little...
Aug 21, 2025
Arabia Alliance Celebrates Game-Changing Lyon Farm Preservation
On August 14, several years after a delay caused by COVID, more than 130 visitors attended the Arabia Alliance’s celebration of its most ambitious restoration project to-date: the stabilization...
Jul 15, 2025
Heritage Area Resident Roy Goddard Turns 102
Born on the Fourth of July in 1923, Roy Goddard’s life accomplishments include a seventy-plus-year marriage and serving as a paratrooper during WWII. The Fourth of July isn’t just the...
May 30, 2025
How The Yarbrough Family Preserved Panola Mountain
Before it was a declared a State Park in 1974, Panola was privately owned by John Yarbrough, a local motor man who fell in love with the mountain. It’s hard...
Mar 31, 2025
Women’s History Month: Q&A With Master Angler Evonne Blythers
A Junior Angler Coordinator for the Arabia Alliance, Evonne Blythers talks about her upbringing in rural Indiana, the Junior Ranger Angler Program, and her love of historic bridge builder Horace...
Mar 25, 2025
Flannery O’Connor’s Connection To The Monastery Of The Holy Spirit
On the Georgia author’s 100th birthday, we look at how Flannery O’Connor discovered the Monastery, and how some of her famous peacocks wound up there. March 25th this year marks...
Feb 18, 2025
Black History Month: Bruce Street Alum Mae Frances Anderson
Anderson is the last living member of the Bruce Street School graduating class of 1950 and her grandmother Frances Branham was a third-grade teacher at the school. At 90, Mae...
Jan 28, 2025
How Ed Alexander Saved Alexander Lake
A revered landscape architect who designed the children’s garden in the White House, Alexander was also a passionate preservationist who convinced others to protect local green spaces Anyone...
Jan 3, 2025
Remembering Arabia Mountain Trailblazer Tyrone Burkette
The popular Arabia Mountain ranger and trail guide was a renaissance man who was also a pastor, educator, college president and model train enthusiast. The Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area...
Dec 17, 2024
Hidden Figures: Moses Green, The Monastery’s Celebrated Mason
Visitors to the Monastery of the Holy Spirit (MoHS) may not know the name Moses Green, but his work abounds throughout the Monastery grounds. If you see brick on brick,...
Nov 18, 2024
Uncovering Civil War History In The NHA
The National Heritage Area contains some fascinating Civil War history from skirmishes at Flat Rock during the Battle of Atlanta to experiencing the destruction of William Sherman’s March to...