Tech companies are putting a lot of pressure on DeKalb County and surrounding areas to open up more data centers. But what will be the impact of these centers in...
While the Bruce Street Schoolhouse ruins are currently undergoing a revitalization, back in the mid-20th Century, this grassroots school provided education to a generation of Black students,...
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...
Since the Arabia Alliance hosted a Celebration back in August, there’s been demand for public tours of DeKalb’s only extant plantation home. This month, those tours start. Beginning...
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...
Check out this photo Field Note by 2 James Madison University students who spent the week of March 16, 2025 volunteering at the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area. Spring break...
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...
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...
The Arabia Alliance’s Assistant Executive Director and resident Historian Brigette Jones reflects on the significance of Black History Month on the eve of the United States’ 250th....
Born and raised in neighboring Ellenwood, Georgia, Moore spent much of his childhood outdoors. With an insatiable passion for nature, he soon realized that this was something he would be...
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...
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...