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Th e Atlanta History Center is reopening its front doors.One recent Friday afternoon, construction workers were

putting fi nishing touches on the building’s new 5,300-square-foot atrium. One worker touched up drywall on the new ceil-ing. Another worker spray-painted letters to highlight the names of major donors that had been carved into the new lime-stone walls.

Standing near the new front door, Jackson McQuigg, vice president of properties for the history center, pointed out how the new entrance and 30-foot-tall, glass-walled atrium would take future visitors directly to the large hallway leading to the center’s exhibits, and to the gardens and displays beyond.

“It’s all coming together,” McQuigg said. “And it’s so excit-ing.”

After about 14 months of construction, the history center’s new entryway, part of a $21 million renovation of the build-ing, is scheduled to open to the public on Nov. 7. Th e opening marks roughly the halfway point in a renovation and expansion that offi cials say is intended to make the history center’s home on West Paces Ferry Road more inviting and less, well, stodgy.

“It’s not just the physical changes, it’s the cultural changes and the mindset changes we’ve had at this organization,” said Hillary Hardwick, vice president of marketing communica-tions at the center. “It’s all about the visitor.”

Th e new atrium is roughly twice the size of the old entryway and the design of the new facade – a curve of glass and lime-stone set on a granite base – is intended to make the building


Th e Galloway School’s proposal to build an athletics facility in Sandy Springs is draw-ing sharp attacks from neighbors who argue it will create runoff problems and bring unwant-ed traffi c.

“Th ere is not one single person in this com-munity who wants you here,” Sandy Springs resident Sheila Cornelius told Galloway of-fi cials during an Oct. 27 meeting at Sandy Springs City Hall.

“We don’t want you here. Th is is not good for our community. We want you to expand and grow your program, but we want you to go somewhere else.”

Many among the more than 60 Sandy Springs and Buckhead residents who crowd-ed into the City Hall meeting room applaud-ed her.

Galloway offi cials want to build a softball fi eld, tennis courts, a concessions stand and

Brady Chan is poised for liftoff at the annual Sarah Smith Elementary School Fall Festival on Oct. 24.

The event featured carnival games, activities such as a haunted hall, tattoos and laser tag, and included an International Travelers week table, celebrating the country of Mexico.

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Historic homes book in the worksBY JOHN RUCH

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The fine houses of Historic Brookhav-en could be coming to a coffee table near you, immortalized in a limited-edition book.

The book project, led by a Historic Brookhaven Neighborhood Association committee, is not just decorative. It’s an attempt to raise awareness of the area’s his-toric value as many houses are changed or demolished to make room for bigger, infill mansions. The book’s publication, which is not yet guaranteed, relies on pre-sales from homeowners and history-lovers in general.

“Unfortunately, since [the book idea was raised] five years ago, many of those homes are either altered so significantly they would no longer qualify [as historic] or have been torn down,” said book com-mittee member Lauren Jackson. “Things are changing. This is a pretty unique neighborhood.”

“They’re losing these historic houses,” said Richard Diedrich, an architect and author of two coffee-table books about clubhouses who has agreed to write the Historic Brookhaven book. He lives in a 90-year-old house in the neighborhood.

Historic Brookhaven is the neighbor-hood around the Capital City Club golf course in Brookhaven. It straddles the bor-der of Brookhaven and Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood. The book project is fo-cused on a smaller area within the neigh-borhood—the official Historic District that has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1986.

The neighborhood dates back to a 1910 plan for what was then called the Brookhaven Country Club in an area of summer cottages. A community called Brookhaven Estates was plotted around the club’s borders, soon followed by two other subdivisions. Homes dating from the 1910 to 1942 era are now part of the Historic District.

The National Register designation of-fers recognition and eligibility for preser-vation-related grants and tax credits, but does not protect buildings from demoli-tion. About 150 historic homes remain in Historic Brookhaven, but at least 50 oth-ers have been demolished or heavily al-

tered in recent years, Jackson and fellow book-planner Mike Elliot estimate.

The book would feature high-quality photos of the houses’ facades mixed with historic photos. The Capital City Club, already featured in Diedrich’s previous books, would be included, too.

Diedrich said the book idea gained momentum over the past year when the neighborhood association formed the spe-cial committee and the Historic Brookhav-en Foundation created an LLC to publish it.

The committee is relying on owners of the historic homes, as well as interested neighbors, to pre-purchase special, signed editions of the books for $250, with oth-er extras available for bigger donations. They’re also seeking loans of historic pho-tos of the houses from anyone.

“We don’t want a book that is just a se-ries of facades,” said Diedrich, explaining that vintage photos would show the “rich-ness of the history.” It also allows residents who don’t own a historic home, but may own historic photos, to participate, he said.

Jackson is an example of an interested neighbor, as she lives in the Buckhead side of the neighborhood, but not in one of the Historic District homes.

The committee aims to publish the book in time for the holiday season in 2016. That means getting financial com-mitments and a production schedule in place much sooner. “You don’t want them to be dead-of-winter photos,” Jackson said.

On Oct. 15, the committee held a pri-vate reception for the 150 homeowners. About 40 percent have responded, Jack-son said, but more will have to participate to make the project feasible.

“In small groups, one-on-one, everyone is really enthusiastic about the book be-cause they’re enthusiastic about the neigh-borhood and they’re enthusiastic about the history. But that doesn’t mean it will come together,” Diedrich said of the proj-ect. “As you’d expect, we haven’t been over-whelmed with riches, but I really believe the committee will find a way to do it.”

To see a map of the Historic District and more information on participating in the book project, visit brookhavenlibretto.com.

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Residents examine a map of the Peachtree Creek Greenway during an Oct. 22 meeting at Briarwood Park.

Garden library raises $2.5 millionTh e Cherokee Garden Library has raised more than $2.5 million for its endowment, reaching a goal set more than a decade ago,

when the library merged with the Atlanta History Center.Gifts ranging from $30 to $300,000 from 150 individu-

als and organizations allowed the library to reach the fund-raising goal as it celebrated its 40th anniversary, the histo-ry center said.

“Th is type of support truly allows the center, and spe-cifi cally the Cherokee Garden Library, to serve a broader community, expanding in ways that keep it relevant and en-

gaging to future generations,” Atlanta History Center Vice President Hillary Hardwick said in an email.Th e library was founded by the Cherokee Garden Club of At-

lanta in 1975. It now is one of the special libraries of the Kenan Re-search Center at the history center. Th e Cherokee Garden Library contains more than 30,000 books, photographs, postcards, seed catalogs and other gardening-relat-ed items.

Peachtree Creek trail could provide pathsTh e fi rst-draft design of the

new Peachtree Creek Greenway at Brookhaven park and trail had a big surprise: not just one creek-side path, but up to four paths of diff erent types and uses.

Th e creek, largely hidden be-hind buildings along Buford Highway and I-85, has a surpris-ing “opportunity to create multi-ple experiences in the corridor,” said lead planner Carlos Perez, unveiling the draft design at an Oct. 22 meeting at Brookhaven’s Briarwood Park.

Th e Greenway was conceived as a BeltLine-style linear park with a paved multi-use trail running roughly 3 miles through Brookhaven’s section of the creek. In some sections, the main trail could run parallel to an unpaved “nature

trail” and a “creek trail” where hikers would be “actually jump-ing from rock to rock when the water is low,” Perez said.

Regional connectivity is a larger goal of the plan. While the Greenway is getting a start in Brookhaven, the ultimate goal is a park and trail along the entire north fork of the Peachtree Creek, which runs from Mercer University in unincorporat-ed DeKalb County to near the PATH400 trail in Buckhead.

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bathrooms on 8.3 acres at the end of High Point Road, just inside the city of Sandy Springs. After discussions with neighbors, the proposal is to go to the city Planning Commission in December.

Galloway’s athletics programs have outgrown its Buckhead campus and more fi elds are needed, school offi cials said. Th e school already has some off -campus athlet-ics facilities on Defoors Ferry Road, Ath-letics Director Josh Burr told the crowd.

Th e proposed Sandy Springs courts and fi eld, Galloway lawyer Sharon Gay told the room, would not include lighting, bleachers or a sound system, and would only be used during daylight hours. Most players would be bused from the school’s campus at Chastain Park, representatives said, but the facility would include a park-ing lot. “We know High Point Road is narrow, and nobody wants us to park on

High Point Road,” she said.But residents argued the facility would

draw too much traffi c to an area they said now has relatively little.

“It’s just a quiet, little residential area,” said Tom Ramseur, who said he’d lived in the neighborhood for more than 20 years. “I think the increased traffi c would be bad.”

Ramseur also worried that traffi c noise from nearby Ga. 400 would be louder af-ter the removal of trees for the athletics fi elds.

Alan Toney wondered whether the project would require widening High Point at some places. “High Point Road, the last 300 yards of it, is basically a drive-way for houses,” he said. “Are you going to have to widen it? Can you imagine what you are going to do to those people who live down there on a quiet street and you’re going to bring buses through there?”

Residents fi ght Galloway’s athletics fi elds on High Point

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1more visible from West Paces Ferry. Inside, McQuigg said, designers want to make it “feel like a true civic building.”

“I’m hoping it will become a cultur-al landmark in years to come,” McQuigg said.

Th e new entryway is part of a parade of changes from new exhibits to a new, 23,000-square-foot building to house the Cyclorama, which is moving from Grant Park. As part of the project, the history center plans to restore “Battle of Atlanta,” the circular painting in the display.

Th e new structure housing the painting will rise 35 feet above the ground and ex-tend 15 feet below ground level, McQuigg said. It will be connected to the cen-ter’s current building by a glass-enclosed breezeway containing “Th e Texas,” a Civ-il War-vintage train engine. McQuigg said the breezeway would be, in eff ect, “a giant display case,” and that the engine would be visible to passersby on West Paces.

In January, the center plans to open a new temporary exhibit called “Atlanta in 50 Objects.” Th en, next April, the center opens a new permanent exhibit on the his-tory of Atlanta.

Also in April, Souper Jenny plans to re-locate its Buckhead location to the lobby of the history center building. In a press release, the center promised the café “will be a cross between a chic, funky local café

and coff ee shop.” Jennifer Levison, found-er and owner of Souper Jenny, called the move to the 4,017-square-foot location “a perfect fi t for the culture of Souper Jenny.”

“When the Atlanta History Center fi rst approached me about the idea, I was skep-tical,” she said in a press release. “I always had a preconceived notion about what the history center was and who they attracted, and didn’t think our bohemian café was a good fi t. It is apparent their enthusiastic focus is to turn these old perceptions up-side down.”

Th e center says it also plans to install a bookstore featuring a mix of specialty sec-tions and topics, including Atlanta history, Southern studies, architecture, gardening, children’s books and cookbooks.

“We want to do more than just engage visitors with our buildings; we want to fi nd ways to foster opportunities to con-nect with Atlantans on a daily basis and perhaps surprise them along the way,” cen-ter President and CEO Sheffi eld Hale said in a press release.

Perhaps also to convince them to take more of a look around.

As McQuigg pointed out features of the new entryway recently, he admitted the old layout often encouraged visitors to pass through quickly to wherever they were headed. Th e new one is supposed to encourage them to stick around. “We want people to linger,” he said.

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Above, a rendering of the center’s main entrance on West Paces Ferry Road.

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I laughed when I read this “bar-stool wis-dom about climate change” quote on a friend’s Facebook page. But was this just a clever statement about the longevity of one of the world’s most famous, hard-living rockers, or is cli-mate change � nally becoming a main-stream concern?

� ankfully, the city of Atlanta and other major urban areas worldwide are not waiting to � nd out; they are lead-ing the way.

On Sept. 21, the Atlanta City Coun-cil unanimously passed a Climate Ac-tion Plan to achieve measurable reduc-tions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 from multiple sectors across the city. Mayor Kasim Reed’s O� ce of Sus-tainability and its new director, Steph-anie Stuckey Ben� eld, a former state

legislator, environmental attorney and community advocate, are overseeing the program.

� e decisions that cities make today will in� uence emissions tomorrow. To emphasize that point, 12 U.S. cities, in-cluding Atlanta, have formed a delega-tion to attend the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in early December. Known as the Local Climate Leaders Circle, they are calling for a new international agreement to re-duce greenhouse gas emissions and for widespread reform of policies and reg-ulations that address climate, econom-ic and energy challenges.

Climate change impacts are already being felt at the local level and will only become more challenging. Increased climate variability and extreme events, such as prolonged drought and torren-tial rains, have economic and health consequences.

� e epic � ooding that hit Atlanta in September 2009 – a “500-year event” in some areas – resulted in 10 deaths, damaged or destroyed nearly 17,000 homes and caused $193 million in eco-nomic damage, according to the city. Just two years earlier, an “exception-al drought” in the Southeastern U.S. claimed 200 lives and resulted in signif-icant economic damage in the region, totalling $12 billion.

Atlanta’s climate plan targets com-

mercial and residential buildings, en-ergy production, wastewater treatment, transportation, solid waste, urban agri-culture and green spaces.

Fourteen percent of the 20 percent in emissions reductions to be achieved by 2020 will come from e� ciencies in energy and water management. � is will be achieved through changes in the operation of city buildings and wastewater treatment facilities, stron-ger and more e� ective local ordinanc-es, and greater � nancial investment in retro� tting and infrastructure im-provements.

With 100 million square feet of commercial space already committed to the Better Buildings Challenge – thanks to Mayor Reed’s leadership – the city is well on its way to meeting its goals.

Who knows? � e city may even out-last Keith Richards.

For more information about Atlan-ta’s Climate Action Plan, visit p2catl.com. To learn more about Atlanta’s Better Buildings Challenge, visit bet-terbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/partners/atlanta-ga.

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The Savor Sandy Springs Restaurant Week, returning Nov. 2-8 for its second year, is one of many similar promotions boosting the dining business around the Perimeter and the nation. But there’s something special about the group or-ganizing it, the Sandy Springs Restau-rant Council, and about how Restaurant Week fits into its much bigger business plan.

An initiative of the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce, the Restaurant Council hosts expert speak-ers at monthly meetings and is organiz-ing quarterly public events with the goal of putting the city on the metro Atlanta fine-dining map.

The Restaurant Council model could become influential amid talk of Dun-woody and Sandy Springs possibly col-laborating on future Restaurant Weeks, and as the young city of Brookhaven considers creating its own.

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rant Council is to make Sandy Springs a fine-dining destination,” said Karen Try-lovich, the council’s chair. “People go down Ga. 400 to get to Buckhead and bypass Sandy Springs ... when we have over 500 restaurants in Sandy Springs.”

The council made a splash in Au-gust with its new football season cook-out party that drew hundreds of custom-ers. At a recent council meeting, Jason Sheetz, the owner of the Hammocks Trading Company restaurant, praised the group’s model.

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Rick Tapia admits he got really inter-ested in bourbon only fairly recently. He’d been a vodka man.

“Growing up in the Northwest, you grew up drinking vodka, rum, maybe some Jack [Daniels] and Coke,” he said. “I don’t recall any bourbon. It wasn’t sexy at the time.”

But times change. Bourbon turned sexy after all. And Tapia, who was born in Peru and grew up near New York, now lives in Sandy Springs and has created his own brand of bourbon, the favorite whiskey of the Amer-ican South. He hopes it will catch on as part of a new interest in small batch bourbons.

He named his whiskey J.R. Revelry. Th e “J.R.” represents his initials; his full name is Jesus Ricardo Tapia. Th e “Revel-ry” part of the name suggests celebration, he said. And the design on the label of his bottles – a black bowler – is a nod both to good times and his family’s roots in South America, where the round-topped hats still represent high fashion in some areas.

Tapia is quick to point out that his bourbon is 100 percent American-made. It says so right on the label, in Spanish. (“Th e Spanish on the label was for me, a personal thing,” he said. “I was saying, ‘Hey, I’m Latino.’”) His bourbon, which sells for $30 to $40 a bottle, is distilled in Indiana and bottled in Nashville, he said. Even the stoppers are made in the U.S., he said.

Tapia, who’s 44, comes by his interest in producing spirits through experience. He actually started out as an accountant (In college, “I knew I couldn’t do a fl uff y degree,” he said.), but quickly moved to working as a promoter for various nation-al and international liquor companies. He promoted vodka, tequila, even the occa-sional Scotch. He worked for various com-panies during his 18 years in the business.

About nine years ago, he and his wife planned to move from the Northeast to

Miami for his job. But liquor companies buy and sell one another all the time, he said, and before his transfer was complet-ed, his company was bought by anoth-er company and they found themselves headed to Georgia, instead. “My wife and I were a bit surprised,” he said.

In Georgia, he discovered bourbon. “When I moved here was when I learned

about it and started drinking it on a regular basis,” he said.

When his company was sold again a couple of years ago, he and his family faced another corporate transfer, which would have required starting over in

another town. So he decided to head off on his own, “to create my own brand,” he said.

He knew what he liked in the bour-bons he drank himself, he said, so he “re-verse blended” his own brand to get a smooth bourbon that would mix well in cocktails, he said.

And small batch bourbons now seem to be the hot commodity. “Th ings were changing. Th e whiskey thing was start-ing to happen,” he said. At the same time, in the world of selling whiskey, “the eco-nomics of creating a brand had complete-ly changed. Craft brewing had evolved to craft distilling.”

Now Tapia takes bottles of J.R. Revel-ry to golf tournaments, offi ce parties, hap-py hour tastings - wherever he can fi nd a group of people willing to try a taste. He fi gures it’s the best way to go up against the big companies he used to work for. “Who knows? Maybe someday they’ll buy my company,” he joked.

His whiskey now is sold in six states, he said. But competition is tough. “Th ere are new brands everywhere,” he said. “We say there’s the ‘browning of American pol-itics’ and then ‘the browning of Ameri-ca...’” Maybe the time has come, he said, for tastes to turn to darker drinks.

“It fi ts,” he said. “It’s good for us. It’s good for America.”

JOE EARLE

Rick Tapia created his own brand of bourbon, J.R. Revelry.

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Mercedes-Benz USA’s relocation to Sandy Springs is sparking a “transfor-mation” of the luxury automaker, Pres-ident and CEO Steven Can-non told a crowd of hundreds at the Oct. 20 Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Com-merce luncheon.

Cannon also discussed Mercedes’ forthcoming new offi ce tower and charitable programs. And he voiced his optimistic hope of having a 20-minute commute from his new Buckhead home.

“What started as a move from Montvale, N.J., to At-lanta has been a transforma-tion for the company,” Can-non said, describing Mercedes’ move to the Perimeter as a cre-ative shake-up. “It’s almost got a start-up feeling to it at our tem-porary headquarters.”

Th at temporary site is in Dun-woody, where the company will remain through 2017, until the fi rst phase of its new headquarters off Abernathy Road in Sandy Springs is built. Cannon de-scribed the “open-fl oor, transparent” in-terior design of the forthcoming towers.

“I said to the architects, ‘Build a building around a town hall concept,’” where employees can quickly and easily gather for meetings, he said. “Th e cubi-cle culture…that’s going away.”

Cannon said that local hiring has gone better than expected. He said he appreciates the welcome and off ers of support he has received here.

In a sign of the political part of that support, Cannon was seated at a table with the mayors of Brookhaven, Dun-woody and Sandy Springs.

“Th ere’s a great migration going on in this country,” Cannon said, with many people moving from the North to the “smile states” of the Southeast, South and Southwest. In that sense, Mercedes’

move brings it closer to its future U.S. customer base, he said.

Cannon answered questions from

Jim Fitzpatrick, CEO of CBT Automo-tive Network, a Sandy Springs-based au-tomotive industry news outlet.

CBT provided a comedic video about the top 10 reasons for buying a Mercedes here, including use of an “exclusive Mer-cedes HOV lane” and a self-driving car that would pilot itself to Sandy Springs’ forthcoming City Walk apartments.

Of course, local traffi c and commut-ing nightmares are no joke, and Mer-cedes is well aware of that part of its move. Th e company is already facing challenges in Dunwoody.

“We’re looking at some fl ex-time op-tions” to stagger employee commute times, Cannon said in an interview af-ter the luncheon. Th e new generation of employees expect such fl exibility in life-style, too, he said.

“Look, if you don’t off er millennials those kinds of options, you’re not go-ing to hold onto them,” Cannon said. “You’ve got to change the way you do business.”

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“It’s a unique way for residents and visitors to try restaurants they wouldn’t try otherwise, and to try them at a fixed price point,” said Katie Bishop, execu-tive director of the Dunwoody CVB, which has organized a Restaurant Week in collaboration with the city and the Dunwoody Perimeter Chamber each June since 2011. This year’s Dunwoody Restaurant Week had 17 restaurants offering lunch menus and 24 offering dinner menus.

Dunwoody copied the Restaurant Week idea from other places, Bish-op said, but the CVB has tried some homegrown efforts, too. One exam-ple was the “Wine-ing About Win-ter” event, running in January of 2013 and 2014, with restaurants offering dis-counted meals or bottles of wine dur-ing a dead-of-winter week. “We just want to affect the bottom line that week,” Bishop said. “We’re just trying to drive business into what is a slower week for restaurants.”

She and other Restaurant Week or-ganizers acknowledge that measuring the impact is difficult. “Each restau-rant owner has their own way of do-ing things,” said Trylovich, “so it’s re-ally hard to know what that impact is.”

The debut Georgia Restaurant Week, a statewide event in July ar-ranged by the Buckhead-based Geor-gia Restaurant Association, in collab-oration with the state Department of Economic Development, shows how the measurements can be tricky. At first glance, an association report looks pret-ty good: total sales over $900,000; 500 meals ordered from the special menus; 42 percent of customers showing up to try a new restaurant and 81 percent

“highly likely” to return.But with 96 participating restau-

rants, that means each location sold less than one Restaurant Week menu meal per day. The sales figure includes all res-taurant revenue, not just any above-av-erage bump that week. And only 35 customers responded to the survey.

Thirty percent of the restaurants saw a business boost, said association spokeswoman Melanie Charyton. She emphasized it was the statewide Res-taurant Week’s first year, adding that “we hope to build on this next year and create more revenue for our restau-rants.”

The Sandy Springs Restaurant Council is aiming beyond the quick-hit Restaurant Week model to brand the city as a dining hotspot like Buckhead or Midtown. The council formed in late 2013 when Mayor Rusty Paul was serving as the Chamber’s board chair and heard the call for more restaurant promotions. “As far as greater Atlanta is concerned, Sandy Springs is a restau-rant desert,” Paul said at a recent City Council meeting about the Restaurant Council effort.

About 15 people attended a recent council meeting at Seven Hens, includ-ing restaurant owners and representa-tives from the city, the chamber and the Perimeter Center Improvement Dis-tricts. One agenda item was the Res-taurant Week’s cross-promotion with an older tradition, the Sandy Springs Society’s Elegant Elf event. (Several res-taurants will serve “Elf-tini” cocktails.)

“It’s been collaborative amongst us. It’s not a competitive thing,” said Tisha Rosamond of Nothing Bundt Cakes, describing the council as a “partnership as well as friendship.”

Barbara Boukater, whose 5 Seasons Brewing hosted the football kickoff event, said the collaboration is “driv-ing home that this is a neighborhood effort. Keep it in Sandy Springs.”

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Pumpkin Smash!Saturday, Nov. 7, 3 - 4 p.m. – After Hallow-een has come and gone, there is fi nally a fun use for your decaying pumpkins. Families of all ages are welcome to the Dunwoody Library for a pumpkin smash. Drop your old jack-o’-lanterns and pump-kins off by 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 7, and be there at 3 p.m. for your chance to smash a pumpkin and even possibly fi nd a prize inside of one. Th e rem-nants will be turned into compost and donated to a local garden. Free and open to the public. Regis-tration not required. 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For additional details, go online to dekalblibrary.org or call 770-512-4640.

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Farmers MarketSaturday, Nov. 7, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. – Come out and enjoy the fall weather for this rain or shine farmers market. Stock up on fresh pro-duce, meats, eggs, artisan oils, freshly baked breads and pastries, prepared foods, coff ee and sweet treats. Th is weekly event takes place every Saturday through Dec. 12. Free and open to the public. University Baptist Church, 1375 Fernwood Cir., NE, Brookhaven, 30319. More information can be found at facebook.com/brookhavenmarket or brookhavenfarmersmarket.com.

Free Park DayWednesday, Nov. 11 – In honor of Veterans Day, the National Park Service off ers a free park day at select locations across the nation. One such participating park is the Chattahoochee River Na-tional Recreation Area, and visitors are invited to enjoy the grounds and property with no entrance fees. More information can be found at nps.gov/fi ndapark/feefreeparks. Chattahoochee River Na-tional Recreation Area, 1978 Island Ford Pkwy., Sandy Springs, 30350.

Happy TailsSaturday, Nov. 14, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. –Children aged 5 and up are invited to work on skills by reading to trained and registered therapy dogs. Sedona, a golden retriever, and Dugan, a bor-der collie mix, are great listeners, and will be on hand. Sign up for 15-minute sessions by email-ing [email protected]. Registra-tion required, but free to participate. Buckhead Branch Library, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Buck-head, 30305. Questions? Go to afpls.org or call 404-814-3500.

Daffodil ProjectSunday, Nov. 15, 3 p.m. – Th e Daff odil Proj-ect aspires to build a worldwide living memorial in remembrance of the children who perished in the

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Susan Tourial could barely contain her enthusiasm.

“I’m ready to go already. How much longer?” she asked one recent afternoon as she sat at the kitchen table of her San-dy Springs home. “I’m ready to start. Get this party started, already!”

She wouldn’t have to wait much longer. The party she eagerly await-ed is the Marcus Jew-ish Community Center of Atlanta’s 24th annu-al book festival. It starts Nov. 5 and continues through Nov. 22.

Tourial’s enthusiasm is understandable. This year, she co-chairs the event. She’s been in-volved with the festival for five or six years and started working on this year’s edition last Janu-ary.

Besides, she thor-oughly enjoys this an-nual showcase of Jewish writing that has grown from presenting just three authors in its first year to hosting more than 40 this year, in-cluding such recognizable names as Ted Koppel, Alan and Arlene Alda, Mitch Albom and Dr. Ruth Westheimer. “We feel like this is our gift to the communi-ty, to have the caliber of some of these authors,” Tourial said.

Besides, she said, “it’s so much fun. It’s probably the most fun volunteer thing I have ever done.”

Through the years, the festival also has been fun for the writers, too, she said. More than 13,000 book fans are expected to attend the festival’s events this year. And they buy books, Tourial said. “Over 24 years, Atlanta has built up a really good reputation for the num-ber of people in our audience, the way we treat authors and the fact we sell books,” Tourial said.

Author Joey Reiman of Buckhead, who will discuss his book, “Thumbs Up! Five Steps to Create the Life of Your Dreams” on Nov. 22, calls the Marcus Center festival “one of the most impor-tant festivals that has ever been creat-ed.” Part of its appeal comes from its at-tachment to the Marcus Center, which was named for Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, Reiman said. “In Jewish nomenclature, there is something called a mensch,” he said. “A mensch is a genu-ine human being in the moral and ethi-cal arena. When I see Bernie is involved with an organization, the word mensch comes up.”

The festival’s appeal also is based on the authors it chooses to present and how it presents them, Tourial said. More than 200 volunteers are involved in 14 different committees that put on the fes-tival, according to the MJCCA.

From 75 to 100 volunteers are in-volved in the author se-lection process, Tourial said. Some read books and rate them. Some take part in one annu-al event, held in New York, that functions as sort of “speed dating” between writers and book festival officials from across the coun-try, she said. Other au-thors are chosen after their publicists contact festival officials to pro-mote their work, she said.

Is it worth all the work? “I think it’s an important thing to

do,” Tourial said. I think it’s an important cultur-al festival for the whole community. Atlanta’s a big community. I grew up in a Jewish Atlanta

where there were maybe five synagogues. Look how many there are now.”

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There’s a train that runs past a drive-in theater showing “Gone with the Wind,” over Savannah’s famous River Street, alongside an Atlanta Steel plant, and into the Georgia mountains. It’s called the My Way Railroad, and it makes the entire trip in a basement on Nesbit Ferry Road.

Mike and Lee Dunn’s enormous model train layout was one of sever-al Sandy Springs stops on Oct. 25 on an open-house tour called the Piedmont Pil-grimage. Hundreds of model railroad fans

made the trip, and will visit more layouts in Dunwoody and Sandy Springs as the open houses continue through November.

“It gets bigger every year,” said Dave Bennett of Woodstock’s Train Installa-tions, who built the layouts for the Dunns and many other model-railroaders.

In fact, Sandy Springs is an epicen-ter of the old-school hobby. The regional Piedmont Division of the National Mod-el Railroad Association meets month-ly at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School, sometimes drawing 100 members. Ben-nett stays busy working with many mem-bers, making home visits in a locomotive-style van outfitted with a cowcatcher and a smokestack. He also maintains the train layout running in the Children’s Health-care hospital on Pill Hill, an item donated by one of his customers.

Building a model train layout can take years and cost $1,500 to $15,000—or way more, for layouts such as the My Way line, said Bennett. The Dunns’ layout fills a 30-by-25-foot room with 500 feet of track and realistic murals providing a 360-de-gree background.

“I guess it’s in the genes,” said Mike Dunn. He got hooked on model trains as a kid in Los Angeles, then became an entrepreneur and a fan of trap-shooting. Years later, after coming South, he learned his great-great-grandfather was a trap-shooter and president of the Central of Georgia Railway.

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who’s writing a book about her husband’s ancestor. She pointed out some of the lay-out’s small details that were often charm-ing or humorous, such as “Wicked Wan-da’s,” a miniature railroad brothel.

Small details and family roots were themes in all the local layouts. At Joe Nichols Jr.’s Ridgemont Drive home, fa-ther Joe Sr. helped him run a recreation of 1917-era Colorado gold-hauling train.

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Many of Joe Jr.’s Colorado mountains were still unfinished Styrofoam carvings, and he isn’t picky about the complexi-ties of switches and signals on the minia-ture railroad. “I don’t care if they derail,” he said, explaining that he enjoys building the train models more than running them.

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Nearly every fall, Viju Rao and his family throw a huge party.

Th ey invite crowds of guests to their home — “everybody that we meet on the street in Dunwoody, plus all of [daughter] Devika’s friends,” Rao said. “Most of them have started asking, ‘When’s Diwali this year?’”

Th is year, Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, will be celebrated Nov. 11. Piy-ush Behre, a volunteer with the Hindu Temple of Dun-woody, said the holiday is mostly celebrated in homes.

Diwali commemo-rates “the day Rama comes back to his kingdom after 14 years—that’s why all the lights,” Viju Rao said. “Th e kingdom lights up and ev-erybody celebrates the return of the king.”

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Viju Rao said a Hin-du guides himself with two books, one of which is the “Ramayana,” an 8,000-word epic poem written in Sanskrit about the story of Lord Rama. “Th ese stories are not religious,” Rao said. “Th ey’re just mythology.”

Sunitha Gandava-di teaches Sanskrit to chil-dren at the Hindu Temple of Dunwoody. She, too, says

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Of course “rob-in” wouldn’t work—I didn’t even attempt that. But I had created a handy new username, “alwayswrite,” that I have used before on other sites and consid-ered somewhat clever in a punny sort of way, and which I can actually remember.

So I keyed it in, but that one was taken. I could chose “I-alwayswrite-blog,” which completely loses the pun, or “awesomealwayswritelove,” which is an awful username. So, no. I could also choose “youralwayswrite,” which I would never, ever do, because your in this case should actually be the contrac-tion you’re, and I would rather melt my keyboard into a useless metal blob than choose a username that so defi les one of the most basic grammar rules.

I could, of course, revise the name to read “youralwayswritemother,” but that also blows the pun right out the win-dow. So, no.

Th e feeble fl icker of username cre-ativity that I possess had already been expunged upon the name “alwayswrite,” so I looked around for inspiration. My geraniums are still in bloom in the blue pot on my back deck, so I typed in, “ge-ranium.”

I was stunned to be informed that “someone has already claimed your username,” even when it was so com-pletely random, and I was off ered the names “geranium-things,” “a-gerani-um,” (both of which are stupid, I’m sure you agree), and “omg-geranium,” which is not only stupid, but juvenile. So, no.

Th rough-out this exer-cise, however, the Tumblr site off ered me a collec-tion of new and unsullied usernames, such as “SecretPhilosopherBouquet,” and “AtomicBluebirdFart,” which were admittedly tempting, but didn’t quite feel right. So, no.

Still on the fl ower theme, I tried “hon-eysucklerose,” but that was also taken. I could be “bat-honeysucklerose,” which doesn’t even make sense, or “honeysuck-lerose-stuff ,” which is equally inane. No, and no. Tumblr, meanwhile, of-fered me “TenaciousFuryStudent,” and

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I was getting testy now. Our ample bowl-ful of Halloween candy prompted me to go all-out with “99%choc-olate,” a name which not only describes my diet, but also my fa-vorite Lindt choco-late bar. I came awful-ly close with that one, but was informed that “Tumblrname can only contain letters, num-bers and dashes,” al-though I could choose “omg99chocolate-

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On the suggestion of one of my twins, I typed in “99chocolate” and was fi nally admitted to an entirely new page, but then demurred, because I was not ready to abandon the qualifying “%.”

So I backtracked, and of course, had to start all over again. But I was re-warded with a new off ering: “Teenage-DoughnutEarthquake,” which my own teenage son thought fi t me perfectly, and which convinced me that check-ing out username suggestions on Tum-blr could become a habit.

Committed to my username deci-sion, I typed in “99percentchocolate,” which did indeed and at last work. But now I was forced to reveal my age (because Tumblr did not accept “old enough” and because I cannot tell a lie, not even to Tumblr). I then assured Tumblr that I am not a robot, and that was all it needed to know in order to present me with a veritable landslide of Tumblr accounts prime for the follow-ing.

It doesn’t understand. I’m only here to follow my son.

Robin Conte is a writer and mother of four who lives in Dunwoody. She can be contacted at [email protected].

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While many Atlanta-area high school students spent the summer lying out by the pool, Holy Spirit Pre-paratory School junior John Arnold was feeding hungry children. Last summer, John coordinated a community-wide lunch-making effort in partnership with Action Min-istries that made 300 lunch-es per week for disadvantaged children in College Park and East Point.

“I was so enthralled with this ministry because it struck me that there were children in this nation, a nation with so much global affluence and respect, who relied so heavily on the public school systems and private donations for some-thing as simple as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich,” John said.

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Buckhead Police Blotteror grey Chevy Cavalier as a group of peo-ple were standing outside a music stu-dio smoking. Th e group gave the suspects their wallets, cellphones and car keys.

3200 Lenox Road—A man exiting a bus at the Lenox MARTA station was ap-proached by two men, one of whom asked, “What’s up?” Th e man replied to the strang-ers and kept walking. When he turned around, he saw them running toward him with pistols in hand. Th ey demanded his property and he gave them $30. Th ey then demanded his cellphone. When he stood still, a gunman struck him in the face with a pistol and took his cellphone. Th e gun-men were last seen running back toward the Lenox MARTA station.

2400 block of Noble Creek Drive--A white vehicle approached a woman un-loading items from her car outside an apartment. A man with a silver gun told her not to move and he took her laptop, cellphone and purse from the trunk.

3100 block of Piedmont Road—Four men armed with handguns and wear-ing hoodies drove in a silver Honda or Hyundai sedan up to a group of pedestri-ans as they were walking. Th e men in the car pointed their guns at the walkers and demanded their belongings. Th e walk-ers gave the men their wallets and cell-phones.

100 block of E. Andrews Drive— Two men wearing skull caps entered a parking lot in a blue Honda and backed into a park-ing space. Th ey got out armed with hand-guns and demanded property from a group of pedestrians. Th e group gave the men

their cellphones and wallets.

2000 block of Peachtree Road—A man at an apartment grabbed a woman’s arms and pushed her around the room. He then grabbed her cellphone and purse and ran. A security offi cer at the complex chased the man down the street, but was unable to catch him.

AGGRAVATED ASSAULT 3100 block of Peachtree Road—Police

offi cers arrived at a bar and saw a man ly-ing on the ground, surrounded by several patrons. Th ey could only say the man was involved in a fi ght with several other men and was knocked unconscious. Th ere was a visible laceration to his forehead and he said he was intoxicated.

2400 block of Piedmont Road—A man heard a tapping noise on his vehicle while he was driving. When he confront-ed three men standing nearby, they said, “No, and if we did, what are you going to do?” When the driver said he would call the police, one of the men pulled a rep-lica fi rearm (BB gun) and pointed it at him. An arrest has been made.

600 block of Bellemeade Avenue—A verbal argument turned physical when a man choked and pushed a woman, caus-ing her to twist her ankle. A witness re-corded the man saying he would kill her. He was arrested.

RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY 1900 block of Main Street—A 50-inch

Samsung TV and a HP computer were taken from a house.

1100 block of Collier Road—Police re-sponded to an alarm call and discovered the front door lock damaged with a hole drilled into the lock. No items were tak-en. Still photos captured two men.

1000 block of Peachtree Park Drive—An ASUS laptop with a teal and orange case, a MacBook Pro laptop and an Ad-derall prescription were taken from an apartment; Another apartment in the same complex reported stolen two Mac-Book Pro laptops and a PlayStation.

4200 block of West Club Lane—A saw, air hose, compressors, nails and trim guns were taken from a house.

900 block of East Paces Ferry Road—A J. Crew wallet, credit cards, iPad, MacBook, two Lenovo lap-tops and a Lenovo work bag were tak-en from an apart-ment.

2500 block of Forrest Avenue—A TV was pulled off the wall; it later was discovered on the ground near a locked gate.

800 block of Morris Street—Several pieces of copper piping were taken from a house.

2100 block of Peachtree Road—A Ro-lex watch and $3,000 in cash were re-ported missing.

1300 block of Peachtree Park Drive—A backpack was emptied and a MacBook

Air laptop in a yellow case was taken from an apartment.

3800 block of Stratford Park Drive—A vehicle parked in the driveway was en-tered and a remote used to gain access. A set of Titleist golf clubs and the remote were missing.

4100 block of Haverhill Drive—Sever-al pieces of expensive jewelry, a Mac Air laptop, two iPads, a Samsung fl at screen TV and clothing were taken from an apartment.

400 block of Armour Drive—A Play-Station 4, $3,500 in cash, two MacBook Pro laptops, a smart balance wheel, a yel-low Movado watch and a black Techno marine watch were taken from an apart-ment.

COMMERCIAL BURGLARY 3200 block of Piedmont Road—A ve-

hicle rammed a clothing boutique and items were taken.

4300 block of Roswell Road—A fast food worker entered a restaurant and no-ticed the alarm was not on. Police found no signs of forced entry. Th e safe had been cut open and $6,300 in currency was taken. In-terior cameras had been disabled.

3200 block of Peachtree Park Drive—A 60-inch Sony TV and two MacBook Pro laptops were taken.

300 block of Armour Drive—A front door was smashed with a rock and a side door was pried off its hinges. An Apple desktop monitor and an Apple laptop were taken.


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