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Piedmont Grocery, located at 4038 Piedmont Ave in Oakland, has been serving the Piedmont district since 1903. In 1967, the supermarket was reconstructed. Since then, only minor changes have taken place, and this supermarket is something of a time capsule.
Old English style facade, with weathered bricks and stylized display windows. The original cone spotlights are a pleasant feature, as well.
"From curated gardens to native Piedmont forest, no other place in Atlanta captures the variety of landscapes that have shaped our city’s history."
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Goizueta Gardens is a 33-acre landscape encompassing nine distinct gardens—including preserved woodland, diverse plant collections, and heritage-breed animals.
Olguita’s Garden: - This ornamental garden is in bloom throughout the year, with a rich tapestry of flowering and foliage plants selected for color, fragrance, texture, and an English garden aesthetic. The garden spans the entire rear façade of the Atlanta History Museum, encompassing an amphitheater for seating. Double borders lead to Neel Reid-designed columns, encircling a reflective water feature. This garden celebrates the life of Goizueta Gardens honoree Olga “Olguita” C. de Goizueta.
Smith Farm Gardens: - Explore a variety of heirloom plants, flowers, and animal breeds at Smith Farm. The landscape represents Smith Farm in its early era, with historic varieties of crops in the fields, the enslaved people’s garden, the kitchen garden, and a swept yard by the house planted with heirloom flowers such as love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus sp.) and rose campion (Lychnis coronaria). Surrounding the farm’s outbuildings are naturalistic, native plantings. Heritage-breed sheep, goats, chickens, and turkeys are representative of the types of livestock found on this type of farm.
Smith Farm tells the story of Georgia farm life and enslavement at Atlanta’s oldest surviving farmhouse. The farm accurately represents a working slaveholding farm of the Atlanta area in the 1860s with historic buildings moved here for preservation. The landscape represents Smith Farm in its early era, with historic varieties of crops in the fields, the enslaved people’s garden, the kitchen garden, and a swept yard by the house planted with heirloom flowers such as love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus sp.) and rose campion (Lychnis coronaria). Surrounding the farm’s outbuildings are naturalistic, native plantings. Heritage-breed sheep, goats, chickens, and turkeys are representative of the types of livestock found on this type of farm.
Entrance Gardens - The Entrance Gardens and 60-foot Tree Table are the newest additions to our campus and span eight acres, welcoming guests all year long.
Inspired by the New Perennial Movement and a desire to create a sustainable urban landscape, this series of unique garden spaces feature sweeping perennial beds and pollinator-attracting plants. Special care has been taken to incorporate and emphasize native plants.
The New Perennial Movement, an evolution of the Dutch Wave and the New American Garden, inspired the Entrance Gardens’ design. Unique amongst the more traditional Atlanta styles including classic boxwood and mixed border aesthetics, this style of garden is meant to emulate the American prairie. Well known examples of the New Perennial Movement in the U.S. include New York City’s High Line and the Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millennium Park.
The style is typified by a natural, sweeping color story created by the interwoven placements of mass perennial plantings, with emphasis on grasses. As the gardens grow over the next few years, there will be no bare ground to be seen, creating a seamless landscape. Unlike our usual American habit of tidying up gardens, the Entrance Gardens will not be universally cut back in fall. Instead, plants will be left standing all winter as they would in the wild—encouraging moisture retention in the soil, preventing erosion, and providing habitat for wildlife.
The plant selection and management of this style of garden is rooted in responsible stewardship of the environment. The plants selected do not require extra fertilization or other chemical inputs because they are carefully matched to the variety of soil and light conditions presented in these gardens.
Over half of the 10,000 plants that have been placed in the Entrance Gardens so far are native to Georgia, including uncommon species that deserve wider recognition and use in gardens. Goizueta Gardens staff researched plants that support high numbers of pollinators to be used in large quantities. The result is a garden buzzing with pollinators—which also means it will attract birds who eat insects and rely on insect larvae for their young.
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One hundred new CWA stewards from 42 different Piedmont Airlines stations attended their first training last week.
Over the course of four days, stewards each attended a day-long training class in Charlotte, where they learned more about the new contract, which went into effect on Monday, and their new role in the workplace. They focused on how to solve problems, union building and signing up coworkers. There are 3,700 CWA-represented agents at Piedmont Airlines.
The group included one employee who was hired just nine months ago, but also agents who have spent the last decade fighting for a union voice. Agents flew in from as far as Arizona and New Mexico.
The training was led by Kate Shaughnessy, CWA education staff representative; Jimmy Tarlau, assistant to the vice president for District 2-13; and Abdur Bilal, a Piedmont agent and longtime activist who helped organize the agents.
"It was quite exhausting — 6 hours a day for 4 days — but I must say it is some of the most rewarding work that I've been involved in doing movement work over the last forty years," said Tarlau.
Piedmont Park near downtown Atlanta has a long history of horse racing. Dr. Benjamin Walker sold his land to the Gentlemen's Driving Club (later known as the Piedmont Driving Club) in 1887, and the land thus became home to an exclusive club and horse track. The Piedmont Exposition took place here in late 1887. In 1895, the Cotton States and International Exposition opened here, with the track oval being converted for the expo. An ad for the 1902 Interstate Fair indicates that 6 horse running races were held here. Fairs were held here until 1905, but a newspaper ad indicates that Bobby Walthour once again raced on foot against a trotting horse here in 1911. Motorcycle races were held on the horse track oval in 1912. The Piedmont Driving Club lives on today, although without the racetrack, whose footprint can still be traced as a jogging path within Piedmont Park.
I think I found out about Piedmont, Wyoming on www.ghosttowns.com
After that I looked for more information and I was able to get the owners name and email address. My sister and I were given permission to explore the ghost town on our own.
One side of the road was fenced off (this side) and the other side wasn't.
Piedmont Park, Atlanta GA - On a sultry, summer afternoon, a solitary man, wrapped in a blanket, walks along one of the pathways winding through sunlight and shadow.
Photo: Piedmont Park- Lake Clara Meer
Taken by: Elizabeth Avent
According to the official website of Piedmont Park, Lake Clara Meer was first created in 1887 from a spring near the Visitors’ Center. The purpose of the creation of the lake was for the expositions, and, more importantly, the Cotton States and International Exposition, held in Piedmont Park. In 1895, it was enlarged to its present size and was named Clara Meer. The lake attracted many swimmers, and, in 1911, a wooden bathhouse was built to support them. The wooden bathhouse was later replaced with a stone bathhouse in 1926. The lake now has a dock, and it holds many concerts and theater productions that included the Allman Brothers and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. In addition to this, the Montreux Jazz Festival is held on the dock of Lake Clara Meer. Weddings are also held on the dock of the lake.
Flash Flooding occurred in Piedmont, South Dakota from a slow-moving supercell thunderstorm on June 1, 2015.
Photo: Ball Fields of Piedmont Park
Taken By: Elizabeth Avent
According to the official Piedmont Park website, the current baseball fields were first used to form a horse racetrack. On February 10, 1892, the first Georgia versus Auburn game, which has become the oldest intercollegiate football rivalry in the South, was held in the fields. The first baseball game of University of Georgia versus Georgia Tech was played on the fields, as well. From 1902 to 1904, Atlanta’s original professional baseball team, the Atlanta Crackers, played ball on the fields of Piedmont Park before moving to a stadium on Ponce de Leon Avenue. Today, the fields, now called the Active Oval, consists of two softball fields, two soccer fields, to sand volleyball courts, and a running track that goes around it. Both non-league and league teams play on the fields of Piedmont Park.
One hundred new CWA stewards from 42 different Piedmont Airlines stations attended their first training last week.
Over the course of four days, stewards each attended a day-long training class in Charlotte, where they learned more about the new contract, which went into effect on Monday, and their new role in the workplace. They focused on how to solve problems, union building and signing up coworkers. There are 3,700 CWA-represented agents at Piedmont Airlines.
The group included one employee who was hired just nine months ago, but also agents who have spent the last decade fighting for a union voice. Agents flew in from as far as Arizona and New Mexico.
The training was led by Kate Shaughnessy, CWA education staff representative; Jimmy Tarlau, assistant to the vice president for District 2-13; and Abdur Bilal, a Piedmont agent and longtime activist who helped organize the agents.
"It was quite exhausting — 6 hours a day for 4 days — but I must say it is some of the most rewarding work that I've been involved in doing movement work over the last forty years," said Tarlau.