July 17, 2008 -Friday
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Time
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Event
| Neighborhood/Location |
Admission
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7pm
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The Gala at The East Lake Golf Club – featuring Banks and Shane in the historic clubhouse designed by Neil Reid and Phillip Shutze at the home course of Bobby Jones. Home of the PGA Tour Championship
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East Lake
2575 Alston Drive
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$45
($400/table of 10)
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The Front Lines – Note Demonstrations on Saturday and additional times on Sunday. See below.
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3pm-8:30pm
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Living History Encampment visit informally the soldiers as they eat and prepare to bed down for the night (no demo-talks)
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Kirkwood near Gillam Park
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Free
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July 18, 2008 – Saturday
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Time
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Event
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Neighborhood/Location
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Admission
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8:30am
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The Doublequick 5K Run/Walk
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Kirkwood (start in Bessie Branham Park)
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$17.00
($20.00 day of)
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The Front Lines - 10am - 5pm – Kirkwood (Wreath Layings in East Atlanta)
Note additional times on Sunday – See Below
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10am-5pm
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Living History Encampment Experience a Soldier’s Life from 1864 in a recreated setting
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Kirkwood near Gillam Park, Maps to site at B*ATL Hdqtrs in EA Village
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Free
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10am-5pm
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Spinning, Textiles, and Child’s Play – experience family life at home in 1864
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Kirkwood near Gillam Park, Maps to site at B*ATL Hdqtrs in EA Village
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Free
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9:30am
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Wreath Laying Ceremony - General Walker (Living history soldiers)
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East Atlanta (Glenwood/I-20) Walker Monument
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Free
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5pm
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Wreath Laying Ceremony - General McPherson (Living history soldiers)
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East Atlanta (Monument & McPherson Ave.)
McPherson Monument
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Free
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The Home Front - 10am – and into the evening – East Atlanta (Storytelling in Kirkwood, too)
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BATL Tours |
10am, Noon, 2, 4, 6pm
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Van Tour - Front Line Attack and the Sugar Creek Valley
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East Atlanta start at B*ATL Hdqtrs, 470 Flat Shoals
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$10.00
($15.00 day of)
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10, 11am, Noon, 1, 6pm
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Battle of Atlanta Walking Tours
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East Atlanta start at B*ATL Hdqtrs
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$10.00
($15.00 day of)
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10am
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Sylvester Cemetery Walking Tour
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East Atlanta tickets & map to site at B*ATL Hdqtrs
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$10.00
($15.00 day of)
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11am
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Clay Family Cemetery
Walking Tour
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Kirkwood on Clifton Avenue – map to site at B*ATL Hdqtrs
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Free
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11am, 1, 3, 5pm
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Van Tour - McPherson’s Last Ride and the Railroad Cut
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East Atlanta start at B*ATL Hdqtrs, 470 Flat Shoals
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$10.00
($15.00 day of)
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7pm
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Twilight Tour of Oakland Cemetery
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Cabbagetown Oakland Cemetery
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Free (with advance ticket)
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History, Food and Other Presentations |
10am-4pm
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Cyclorama Museum/Painting
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Grant Park
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Free (With advance ticket from B-ATL Headquarters, 470 Flat Shoals)
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5pm
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“Saving the General” a lecture by Russell Bonds with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres
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Oakland Cemetery
Cabbagetown
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$15 (Free for Oakland Foundation Members) Limited Seating – contact mwoodlan@oaklandcemetery.com for reservations.
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Throughout the day
| Sherman’s Marching Orders, Other Battle and Neighborhood History on Display |
East Atlanta Library
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Free
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All Day & Night
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Shop, Dine and Party in The East Atlanta Village and The Kirkwood Business District
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Civilian Living History Presentations
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Throughout the Day
From 10am to 4pm
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Civilian Characters from History will roam the East Atlanta Village
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You might be eating or shopping next to someone famous. Ask them who they are, where they are from and what they do for a living. In the East Atlanta Village along Flat Shoals and Glenwood.
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Free
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10am-4pm
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Characters from Civil War Times to Civil Rights Times share their stories of Atlanta and Georgia.
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Presentations are under the tent at 470 Flat Shoals Avenue in East Atlanta Village:
11am-Bagpipe demo
Noon-Prison Guard
12:30-a local Slave
3pm-Miss Mary Gay
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Free
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Other Living History Presentations include: Mary Combs, Hunter Bell, Dolly Sumner Burge and Daughter Sadie, Scynthia Catherine Stewart, Pete Rutherford, Zora Faire, Soloman “Sam” Luckie, Carrie Berry, Blind Thomas Bethune, Allie Travis, Madison Reynolds, Kathleen Adams, Arthur Idlett, Carrie Steele Logan, William Fuller and James Bell of the Great Locomotive Chase, Alice Adams, and Homer Nash..
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Also, throughout the day meet re-enactors from history as they roam the East Atlanta Village.
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BATL Storytelling Festival – 8 hours or more of drama and comedy |
10:15am, 12noon
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Civil War Ghost Tales by musician and storyteller Eric Litwin
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East Atlanta Library
East Atlanta Village
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Free
Limited Seating
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11am to 2pm – Each interview is approximately 20 minutes
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The BATL Interviews East Atlanta Kids Club interviews Characters from Atlanta History:
Amateur Golf Champ Charles Harrison at 11am, a Slave at 11:30, and Robert Mable a Prison Guard at 1pm
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East Atlanta Library
East Atlanta Village
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Free
Limited Seating
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Interview Special Guests include: Mary Combs, Robert Mable, Charles Harrison (in the flesh), Mary Gay, Hunter Bell, Dolly Sumner Burge and Daughter Sadie, Pete Rutherford, Zora Faire, Soloman “Sam” Luckie, Carrie Berry, Blind Thomas Bethune, Allie Travis, Madison Reynolds, Kathleen Adams, Arthur Idlett, Carrie Steele Logan, William Fuller and James Bell of the Great Locomotive Chase, Alice Adams, and Homer Nash..
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12:30,4:30pm
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“Gone With the Wind in 20 Minutes” by performance artist Doug Lothes
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East Atlanta Library
East Atlanta Village
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Free
Limited Seating
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1:30pm
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African Folk Tales by popular storyteller Josie Bailey
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East Atlanta Library
East Atlanta Village.
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Free
Limited Seating
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1:30pm
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African Folk Tales including Brer Rabbit by popular storyteller “Wren’s Nest Rambler” Curtis Richardson
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Kirkwood Library
Kirkwood Business District on Hosea Williams Blvd.
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Free
Limited Seating
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2pm
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Miss Mary Gay tells of growing up in Decatur during the Battle by story teller Fran Franz
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Kirkwood Library
Kirkwood Business District on Hosea Williams Blvd.
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Free
Limited Seating
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2:30pm
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“Gone With the Wind in 20 Minutes” by performance artist Doug Lothes
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Kirkwood Library
Kirkwood Business District on Hosea Williams Blvd.
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Free
Limited Seating
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2:00pm
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Turn Homeward, Hannalee a one woman show by Cathy Kaemerlin
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East Atlanta Library
East Atlanta Village.
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Free
Limited Seating
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3:30pm
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African Folk Tales including Brer Rabbit by popular storyteller “Wren’s Nest Rambler” Curtis Richardson
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East Atlanta Library
East Atlanta Village.
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Free
Limited Seating
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4pm
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Miss Mary Gay tells of growing up in Decatur during the Battle by story teller Fran Franz
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East Atlanta Library
East Atlanta Village
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Free
Limited Seating
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BATL Author Talks and Booksignings
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2pm
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Jimmy Jacobs Moonlight Through The Pines, Tales from Georgia Evenings
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Bound to Be Read Book Store on Flat Shoals Avenue in the East Atlanta Village
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Free
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3pm |
Cathy Kaemmerlen General Sherman and the Georgia Belles He Left Behind, Oakland Cemetery History
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Author Talk and Book signing at Bound to Be Read Books on Flat Shoals in East Atlanta Village
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Free
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Note this year there will be a special lecture on Sunday Evening by Pulitzer Prize Author Doug Blackman -
See Below
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The Music of 1864
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TBA
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Sunday July 19, 2008
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7pm
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Twilight Tour of Oakland Cemetery
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Cabbagetown Oakland Cemetery
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Free (with advance ticket available at B-ATL Headquarters on Saturday, 470 Flat Shoals Avenue in the East Atlanta Village)
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7pm
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Lecture by Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Doug Blackmon with viewing of Cyclorama Painting
Slavery by Another Name
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The Atlanta Cyclorama in Grant Park on Cherokee Avenue
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Free
Limited Seating
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10am-4pm
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Living History Encampment visit informally the soldiers as they eat and prepare to bed down for the night (no demo-talks)
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Kirkwood near Gillam Park,
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Free
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Schedule of B•ATL 2009 Events - 145 Years after the Battle of Atlanta
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