Walk and talk about art
Location: Art on the Atlanta BeltLine in Reynoldstown
Date taken: July 29, 2012
Read a storybook
Location: Decatur Education Foundation tent at the 2012 Decatur Book Festival
Date taken: September 2, 2012
Go jump in a lake
Location: Chickamauga Lake
Date taken: August 23, 2012
Unfortunately, there is no big, beautiful body of water in Atlanta. For those of us who love the water, Piedmont Park’s Lake Clara Meer isn’t quite enough. So, take a weekend trip or a day trip to one of these larger lakes, all within a few hours of the city:
Chickamauga Lake | Lake Lanier | Lake Allatoona | Lake Oconee | Jackson Lake| Lake Hartwell
Lake Keowee | Clarks Hill Lake | Lake Burton | Lake Nottely
Hang your wish on a tree
Location: Wish Tree at the 2012 Decatur Book Festival
Date taken: September 2, 2012
I don’t know who sponsored this Wish Tree at the Decatur Book Festival, but it was certainly popular. By the time I stumbled upon it, all the tags had been used. People had started writing their wishes on receipts and sticking them on the tree. Some wishes were playful, such as the one from a 9-year-old who said, “I wish I could have a pony.” Another kid wrote, “I wish I would grow up to be an astronaut.” Other wishes were more serious. “I wish people wouldn’t argue so much” a tag read. People wished for health and happiness. One person wrote, “I wish everyone knew they are beautiful just as they are.” And, another hung this wish on the tree: “I wish I had the power to grant wishes.”
Atlantan Charles Parrott
Location: Kennesaw State University
Date taken: August 9, 2012
Charles Parrott was never very skilled at or interested in farm chores, such as feeding livestock, driving a tractor or tending to crops. He grew up on a farm located outside of Lincoln, Nebraska, but the world he really enjoyed living in was an imaginary one. From the day dreams of his childhood to high school speech contests to an eventual Ph.D. in performance studies, his career path was obvious.
“I didn’t have any other choice. This is the only thing I was ever good at,” Charles says. “I love living in that heady, ethereal world. I can’t do my taxes, but I love talking about the relationship between you and your coffee mug.”
Today, Charles teaches performance studies at Kennesaw State University and directs the school’s storytelling troupe. He’s training future culture makers in not only performance techniques but in social inquiry, understanding human behavior as performance and its impact on culture. And, Charles will tell you that he lives and breathes his work. “I have no hobbies. No golf. No fantasy football,” he says. “The only thing I’m really interested in is going to see weird things happen on stage and occasionally doing it myself.”
Looking for performance art around Atlanta? Charles recommends the following: Write Club, Naked City, Moth Radio Hour, Java Monkey, Apache Café, Carapace, Flux, GloATL and the Goat Farm.
Stroll around a Southern town square
Location: Marietta Square
Date taken: August 9, 2012
The Marietta Square, also known as Glover Park, is home to dozens of restaurants, antique shops, art galleries and the Strand Theatre, which first opened in 1935 as a motion picture house. During the Civil War, the town center became famous because it was where the Great Locomotive Chase began.
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