Tuesday treasures
Mar. 12 — Good day, Silver Streak readers!
Blissful Girls’s Historical past Month! This week brings a characteristic on the co-founder of ZAMI-NOBLA, Mary Anne Adams; updates on the Tossed Out Treasures upscale resale occasion this weekend in Sandy Springs; and information on Atlanta Streets Alive, which is able to kick off this yr on April 27 on Peachtree Road.
And now for just a few headlines:
😷 The Sandy Springs Hearth Division has launched a neighborhood paramedicine program to assist aged and economically challenged people who wrestle with well being care entry.
🚍 MARTA continues to gather rider suggestions at in-person and digital conferences concerning its plan to vary 100 bus routes throughout the town.
🚧 GDOT has closed a number of lanes at North Druid Hills and I-85, persevering with a huge development venture to ease the quantity of visitors within the space.
🎗️ Funeral providers for R&B singer Angie Stone, who was killed in a March 1 auto accident, will probably be held Fri., March 14, at 11 a.m. on the Phrase of Religion Cathedral on Riverside Parkway in Austell.
🕓 Right here’s what’s in at the moment’s e-newsletter.
• ZAMI-NOBLA
• Tossed Out Treasures
• Atlanta Streets Alive
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• Tales of Atlanta | Lance Russell
Take pleasure in!
Reeling within the Years: The storied and ongoing journey of ZAMI-NOBLA
🏳️🌈 Say “Girls’s Historical past Month” in Atlanta and echoes reverberate far outward.
On this Georgia Voice characteristic, Maria Helena Dolan spotlights ZAMI-NOBLA (Nationwide Group of Black Lesbians on Getting older), the nation’s solely group targeted on Black lesbians over the age of fifty.
Dolan lately sat down with Mary Anne Adams, who co-founded Atlanta’s ZAMI group in 1988 to empower and affirm the lives of lesbians of coloration by advocacy, assist teams, socializing, and scholarship.
✊🏾 Be taught extra about Adams and the founding of ZAMI-NOBLA right here.
Knowledge Meets Artwork on the Excessive Museum!
SPONSORED BY THE HIGH MUSEUM
✨ Ryoji Ikeda: data-verse is now on view on the Excessive Museum! Don’t miss this exhibition that exhibits how artwork, science, and knowledge collide in an exploration of the digital age and the universe. Prepare for a mind-bending expertise— Ikeda’s immersive mild and sound installations a must-see! Get Tickets Now!
Upscale resale occasion Tossed Out Treasures returns to Sandy Springs buying heart
👕 Tossed Out Treasures, hosted by the Sandy Springs Society, returns on March 14-16 for discount hunters and vintage collectors.
The upscale resale occasion raises funds for Sandy Springs Society grants awarded to non-profit organizations all through the neighborhood, in accordance with a information launch.
“Throughout a time of elevated prices, this is a perfect buying expertise to find ‘new to you’ objects with none to minimal put on at discount costs,” stated co-chair Anna Cay Robertson. “Phrase continues to unfold, and annually the traces get longer as everybody is keen to search out unimaginable treasures.”
💎 Learn extra about Tossed Out Treasures right here.
Atlanta Streets Alive publicizes first dates for 2025
🚲 Atlanta Streets Alive has introduced its first dates for 2025, starting Solar., April 27 on Peachtree Road.
Peachtree Road will probably be closed to vehicular visitors from sixteenth Road in Midtown to Higher Alabama Road in Downtown. Attendees can stroll, bike, skate, or board down the open avenue from 2-6 p.m.
Further dates introduced embody Solar., Might 18, from Grant Park to West Finish and a return to Peachtree Road on June 22. Each will probably be held from 2-6 p.m.
🛼 Learn extra about Atlanta Streets Alive right here.
‘A Founding Father Arrives’: Tales of Atlanta by Lance Russell
VIA SAPORTAREPORT
🌊 It was competitors from the State of South Carolina that lastly prompted the Georgia legislature to behave on the advice that former governor Wilson Lumpkin had made to the state in 1826. Lumpkin and his companion, Hamilton Fulton, on behalf of the State of Georgia, had surveyed the American Indian territories of North Georgia in search of a canal route that might join Georgia to the Tennessee River and the rising U.S. western frontier.
In his report back to the state, Lumpkin deemed a canal route not possible and urged that the state ought to flip its consideration to establishing a rail line to the Tennessee River.
➼ Learn extra on this week’s Tales of Atlanta.
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