Family-friendly summer events
Tuesday, May 26 — With May coming to a close, we have stories on summer programming at the Chattahoochee Nature Center, more on historic homes for rent on the Agnes Scott campus, and details on Amplify Decatur, which kicks off on June 4.
But first, a few headlines:
💰 The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation announced the first milestones of its $50 million, 10-year scholarship initiative, reporting that more than $4.2 million has been disbursed to approximately 600 students at Atlanta’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
🛏️ Portman Hospitality Fund acquired the Westin Peachtree Plaza from Marriott, bringing Atlanta’s most recognizable hotel back under the control of the firm that designed and built it nearly 50 years ago.
💼 Atlanta Beltline, Inc. named Nino Maisuradze its new chief financial officer. She was previously CFO for Ingenico North America.
🐟 The Chattahoochee Riverkeeper says drought, polluted runoff and sewage overflows contributed to a massive fish kill along at least 20 miles of the river last week.
🕓 Here’s what’s in today’s newsletter.
• Agnes Scott + historic homes
• Chattahoochee Nature Center events
• Amplify Decatur
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• Stories of Atlanta | Lance Russell
Agnes Scott College to open three historic homes for short-term rentals
🏘️ Visitors to Agnes Scott College will soon have a new place to stay.
Starting June 1, the college will be renting out three of its restored historic homes for short-term stays.
The rentals on West College Avenue are directly across from the iconic campus, just a short walk away from Decatur Square. Two locations can sleep up to 10, while a third sleeps up to six.
The school says the accommodations are ideal for families, alumni, visiting scholars, wedding parties, sports tournaments, conference attendees, and business travelers connected to nearby Emory University, the CDC, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and downtown Atlanta.
🛋️ Find out which historic homes are available here.RELATED
🏆 Agnes Scott College’s oldest building, Agnes Scott Hall (also known as Main Hall), was recently recognized for “Excellence in Sustainable Rehabilitation” by The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation.
Seniors Helping Seniors® In-Home Care Services Expands in Georgia
SPONSORED BY SENIORS HELPING SENIORS BUCKHEAD
❤️ Lara Smith, a former Publix pharmacist and longtime Brookhaven resident, has expanded Seniors Helping Seniors to serve Buckhead, Brookhaven, Chamblee, Decatur, Dunwoody, Stone Mountain, and Tucker. Her mission is to provide compassionate, relationship-focused care that helps local seniors remain independent and engaged at home.
Seniors Helping Seniors® provides non-medical in-home care services with a unique peer-to-peer caregiving approach. By hiring active older adults as caregivers, the company fosters meaningful connections, companionship, and trusted support between seniors and the people caring for them.
Family-friendly summer events announced by Chattahoochee Nature Center
🛶 The Chattahoochee Nature Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to environmental education, conservation, and the rehabilitation of native plants and wildlife, today announced a series of family-friendly summer events tied to its 50th anniversary.
Some of the events include the Flying Colors Butterfly Festival on June 6-7, the Possum Trot 10K on June 20, and an anniversary celebration on June 24-28.
🗓️ Get more details about the upcoming events here.
Amplify Decatur Festival returns June 4-7, debuting concerts at new stage in The Square
🎸 The annual Amplify Decatur Music Festival is bringing the first live concerts to the new downtown Decatur Square performing arts stage next month.
The new permanent stage, part of the City of Decatur’s transformation of Decatur Square, will host the festival’s signature ticketed event, “A Decade of Music on the Square,” on Sat., June 6. Commemorating the music festival’s 10th anniversary, the Saturday event runs from 3-11 p.m. and features performances from several acts like Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Patterson Hood, Dylan LeBlanc, Kyshona, and Georgia Mountain Stringband.
The festival opens Thurs., June 4, with Penny and Sparrow and Eliot Bronson playing at Avon Theater in Avondale Estates and concludes Sunday, June 7, with the “Amplify Hall of Fame” show at Eddie’s Attic in Decatur, with local and regional artists covering songs by past festival acts, including Indigo Girls, Lucinda Williams, Ben Harper, and Jeff Tweedy.
🎤 For more information and tickets visit here.
‘The Oldest Child’: Stories of Atlanta by Lance Russell
VIA SAPORTAREPORT
🏠 When George moved from his home in Alabama to Atlanta, he was only 16 years old. Nonetheless, he was acutely aware that the responsibility for the well-being of his mother and his five siblings rested squarely on his shoulders.
Amid the fervor and chaos of an Atlanta recovering from the ravages of the Civil War, the young man took it upon himself to find a job and then set out to build his family a home. The job he found would ultimately make George a household name throughout the South – and the house he built still stands to this day.
🗞️ It’s the tale of a young man coming of age in the big city on this week’s Stories of Atlanta.
🖋️ Today’s Silver Streak was edited by Julie E. Bloemeke.
