WABE covered AWARE’s brave efforts to save an injured bald eagle captured near Panola Mountain State Park. The eagle was likely hit by a car, according to AWARE executive director...
“Archaeologists say it has taken nearly 400 million years for Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area to form. The sprawling natural space is where people take in gorgeous sights and unknowingly...
The Saporta Report recently reported on the Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve’s 50th Anniversary, writing: “On Wednesday, Sept. 28, the Arabia Mountain Heritage Area Alliance,...
“In 2015, when my wife and I moved to Atlanta, I was looking for familiarity. I found it in a granite rock called Arabia Mountain. We’d been living in the...
A retired engineer with the US Forest Service, Thomas Smith had no experience removing graffiti from granite. That is, until he came to Arabia… It’s hard to tell by looking...
A revered landscape architect who designed the children’s garden in the White House, Ed Alexander was also a passionate preservationist who convinced others to protect local green spaces. Anyone...
Arabia Mountain made Newsweek‘s list of “The Weirdest, Most Extraterrestrial Spots You Can Visit, Here on Earth.” “Some experts say it’s as close to the experience of...
For 12 years, Muslimahs Endure has been getting women of Muslim faith outdoors and active, including at Arabia Mountain. For Muslims across Metro Atlanta, the holy month of Ramadan just...
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...
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...
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...
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...