A daylong symposium on the Cold War and the American South will be held Sept. 19 at the National Archives at Atlanta, located in Morrow.
Scheduled speakers include: Kari Frederickson, author of “Cold War Dixie” and “The Dixiecrat Revolt”; Christopher Ward, author of “Brezhnev’s Folly” and a professor at Clayton State University; Douglas Flamming of Georgia Tech, on Southern shrimpers vs. Soviet shrimpers in the Gulf of Mexico; Aubrey Underwood, on the campaign against nuclear weapons and waste; John Whitehurst, on civil defense training and the emergence of Cold War medical activism; and archivist Shane Bell, who will speak on Cold War records at the National Archives in Atlanta.
The symposium will run 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Admission is free, but registration is required by Sept. 14. To register by email, send to atlanta.archives@nara.gov or go to archives.gov/atlanta/symposiums/cold-war. The National Archives is located at 5780 Jonesboro Road, Morrow. For more information, call Joel Walker at 770-968-2530.
Family photographs
Family photographs will be the topic for the Sept. 15 DeKalb History Center Lunch and Learn lecture. I will be speaking on that topic to help people learn how to identify family photos, some pitfalls of identification, some tips on how to figure out who the people are, and how to work with family members to get copies of photographs they may not let you keep. It’s all based on a case study within one branch of my own family.
The event is at noon and is free; bring your own lunch. It's at the Old Courthouse on the square in Decatur. For further information, check dekalbhistory.org or call 404-373-1088, Ext. 23. The center's archives is open by appointment 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays.
Bus service to archives resumes
Bus service has resumed to the Georgia Archives and National Archives research sites. It's Bus No. 193, running from the East Point MARTA Station to the Clayton County Justice Center in Jonesboro and then to Clayton State University and Jonesboro Road to the Georgia Archives. For the schedule and a map, check georgiaarchives.org.
