The Atlanta Traveler

Nothing to do with the holidays but ending December 31 is the Breman Museum’s exhibition, “Seeking Justice: The Leo Frank Case Revisited.”

This is the truly tragic story of a murder that happened in 1913 that had a tremendous effect on Georgia and the nation.  Very briefly, Leo Frank was a manager at a pencil factory and was accused of murdering 13-year-old Mary Phagan in the basement of the factory. The eye-witness was an African-American janitor. It was a very racially charged and sensational story, but was built on and used by politicians and competing city newspapers to inflame people even …read more

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Café Life is a small restaurant adjacent to a co-op grocery store, Life Grocery. All of the food in the café is vegetarian, and the salad offerings are organic
 
The café caters to health conscience people or those who strive to be. The most unique preparations are the raw foods, which are uncooked, natural whole foods that are prepared with the pretense that cooking destroys enzymes and nutrients in dishes. Gourmet raw or living food consists of marinated vegetables, ground nuts that taste like meat and wraps created from ground flax seeds and spices. All of the raw salad dressings are …read more

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Marietta, where it’s better? Anyway, that’s what folk who live in Marietta, Ga. say.
Marietta is considered part of the Atlanta metro area. I didn’t know that when I first considered moving to Atlanta. A friend of mine had been bragging about Atlanta for months, and I decided to move to the area too. Well, she gave me the directions, and I found out that she actually lived in Marietta, not Atlanta. I felt short changed! Then I learned the hard way that the 120 loop is actually a loop. And it is possible to drive around and around that loop for an …read more

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