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JUNE 26 — JULY 9, 2015 • VOL. 9 — NO. 13
Cooking up some history
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Streetcar expansion plan ruffles city development committee BY COLLIN KELLEY
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From left, actors Kate Kovach, Marvin-Alonzo Greer and Jasmine Waters demonstrate how slaves helped shape Southern food traditions during a Juneteenth program at the Atlanta History Center June 21.
A proposal to spend $3.6 billion to expand the Atlanta streetcar system to connect it with the Atlanta BeltLine was met with opposition not only by residents, but members of the Atlanta City Council’s Community Development Committee during a June 23 public hearing. Officials from the Atlanta BeltLine were on hand to discuss the plan to add 50 miles of streetcar lines around the city to connect with MARTA and the 22-mile Atlanta BeltLine loop. One of those streetcar lines would run from Buckhead to Fort McPherson on the south side of the city. However, it wasn’t the north-south line or any of the crosstown lines that were on the minds of the City Council members at the SEE STREETCAR, PAGE 19
‘Cycle of life’ keeps Argonne Forest neighborhood strong BY JOE EARLE
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Street signs keep disappearing from Marsha Sims’ neighborhood. “The Verdun and Marne sign always get taken,” she said with a laugh. “I think people are fascinated with the World War.” That’s the Great War, the one generally known as World War I. Argonne Forest, the Buckhead neighborhood where Sims and her family have lived for the past eight years, takes its name from a battle fought in that war. And major streets in the neighborhood also were named for World War I battles, including Verdun and the Marne.
Sims doesn’t know why her neighborhood, which was developed mostly in the 1950s, memorializes battles of the First World War. She and several of her neighbors describe their community as more or less the Where opposite of a place of conflict: an offYou the-beaten-track enclave in the heart Live of Buckhead that’s a kid-friendly place with a mix of young and old residents, a community social life all its own and yards big enough to hold pickup ball games. The neighborhood association throws an annual Christmas party and has a big communiSEE CYCLE, PAGE 4
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