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Schedule of B•ATL 2009 Events - 145 Years after the Battle of Atlanta


Updated 5.20.09


July 17, 2008 -Friday


Time

Event

Neighborhood/Location


Admission

7pm


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

East Lake

2575 Alston Drive



$45

($400/table of 10)




The Front Lines – Note Demonstrations on Saturday and additional times on Sunday. See below.

3pm-8:30pm

Living History Encampment visit informally the soldiers as they eat and prepare to bed down for the night (no demo-talks)

Kirkwood near Gillam Park

Free


July 18, 2008 – Saturday


Time

Event

Neighborhood/Location

Admission

8:30am

The Doublequick 5K Run/Walk

Kirkwood (start in Bessie Branham Park)


$17.00

($20.00 day of)






The Front Lines - 10am - 5pm – Kirkwood (Wreath Layings in East Atlanta)

Note additional times on Sunday – See Below

10am-5pm

Living History Encampment Experience a Soldier’s Life from 1864 in a recreated setting

Kirkwood near Gillam Park, Maps to site at B*ATL Hdqtrs in EA Village


Free

10am-5pm

Spinning, Textiles, and Child’s Play – experience family life at home in 1864

Kirkwood near Gillam Park, Maps to site at B*ATL Hdqtrs in EA Village

Free

9:30am

Wreath Laying Ceremony - General Walker (Living history soldiers)


East Atlanta (Glenwood/I-20) Walker Monument

Free

5pm

Wreath Laying Ceremony - General McPherson (Living history soldiers)

East Atlanta (Monument & McPherson Ave.)

McPherson Monument




Free



The Home Front - 10am – and into the evening – East Atlanta (Storytelling in Kirkwood, too)

BATL Tours


10am, Noon, 2, 4, 6pm

Van Tour - Front Line Attack and the Sugar Creek Valley

East Atlanta start at B*ATL Hdqtrs, 470 Flat Shoals

$10.00
($15.00 day of)

10, 11am, Noon, 1, 6pm

Battle of Atlanta Walking Tours

East Atlanta start at B*ATL Hdqtrs

$10.00
($15.00 day of)

10am

Sylvester Cemetery Walking Tour

East Atlanta tickets & map to site at B*ATL Hdqtrs

$10.00
($15.00 day of)

11am

Clay Family Cemetery

Walking Tour

Kirkwood on Clifton Avenue – map to site at B*ATL Hdqtrs

Free

11am, 1, 3, 5pm

Van Tour - McPherson’s Last Ride and the Railroad Cut

East Atlanta start at B*ATL Hdqtrs, 470 Flat Shoals

$10.00
($15.00 day of)

7pm

Twilight Tour of Oakland Cemetery

Cabbagetown Oakland Cemetery

Free (with advance ticket)



History, Food and Other Presentations

10am-4pm

Cyclorama Museum/Painting

Grant Park

Free (With advance ticket from B-ATL Headquarters, 470 Flat Shoals)

5pm

Saving the General” a lecture by Russell Bonds with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres

Oakland Cemetery

Cabbagetown



$15 (Free for Oakland Foundation Members) Limited Seating – contact mwoodlan@oaklandcemetery.com for reservations.

Throughout the day

Sherman’s Marching Orders, Other Battle and Neighborhood History on Display


East Atlanta Library

Free

All Day & Night

Shop, Dine and Party in The East Atlanta Village and The Kirkwood Business District



Civilian Living History Presentations

Throughout the Day

From 10am to 4pm



Civilian Characters from History will roam the East Atlanta Village

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.

Free

10am-4pm

Characters from Civil War Times to Civil Rights Times share their stories of Atlanta and Georgia.

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


Free

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..


Also, throughout the day meet re-enactors from history as they roam the East Atlanta Village.


BATL Storytelling Festival – 8 hours or more of drama and comedy

10:15am, 12noon

Civil War Ghost Tales by musician and storyteller Eric Litwin

East Atlanta Library

East Atlanta Village



Free

Limited Seating



11am to 2pm – Each interview is approximately 20 minutes


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




East Atlanta Library

East Atlanta Village



Free

Limited Seating




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..


12:30,4:30pm

Gone With the Wind in 20 Minutes” by performance artist Doug Lothes

East Atlanta Library

East Atlanta Village



Free

Limited Seating



1:30pm

African Folk Tales by popular storyteller Josie Bailey

East Atlanta Library

East Atlanta Village.



Free

Limited Seating



1:30pm

African Folk Tales including Brer Rabbit by popular storyteller “Wren’s Nest Rambler” Curtis Richardson

Kirkwood Library

Kirkwood Business District on Hosea Williams Blvd.



Free

Limited Seating



2pm

Miss Mary Gay tells of growing up in Decatur during the Battle by story teller Fran Franz

Kirkwood Library

Kirkwood Business District on Hosea Williams Blvd.



Free

Limited Seating



2:30pm

Gone With the Wind in 20 Minutes” by performance artist Doug Lothes

Kirkwood Library

Kirkwood Business District on Hosea Williams Blvd.



Free

Limited Seating



2:00pm

Turn Homeward, Hannalee a one woman show by Cathy Kaemerlin

East Atlanta Library

East Atlanta Village.



Free

Limited Seating



3:30pm

African Folk Tales including Brer Rabbit by popular storyteller “Wren’s Nest Rambler” Curtis Richardson

East Atlanta Library

East Atlanta Village.



Free

Limited Seating



4pm

Miss Mary Gay tells of growing up in Decatur during the Battle by story teller Fran Franz

East Atlanta Library

East Atlanta Village



Free

Limited Seating






BATL Author Talks and Booksignings

2pm

Jimmy Jacobs Moonlight Through The Pines, Tales from Georgia Evenings

Bound to Be Read Book Store on Flat Shoals Avenue in the East Atlanta Village

Free

3pm


Cathy Kaemmerlen General Sherman and the Georgia Belles He Left Behind, Oakland Cemetery History

Author Talk and Book signing at Bound to Be Read Books on Flat Shoals in East Atlanta Village

Free

Note this year there will be a special lecture on Sunday Evening by Pulitzer Prize Author Doug Blackman -

See Below

The Music of 1864

TBA


Sunday July 19, 2008

7pm

Twilight Tour of Oakland Cemetery

Cabbagetown Oakland Cemetery

Free (with advance ticket available at B-ATL Headquarters on Saturday, 470 Flat Shoals Avenue in the East Atlanta Village)

7pm

Lecture by Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Doug Blackmon with viewing of Cyclorama Painting

Slavery by Another Name

The Atlanta Cyclorama in Grant Park on Cherokee Avenue

Free

Limited Seating



10am-4pm

Living History Encampment visit informally the soldiers as they eat and prepare to bed down for the night (no demo-talks)


Kirkwood near Gillam Park,

Free



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