November Cover

Best High Schools
Top schools by subject, plus best all around and junior achievers

Hospital Profiles
Find the best hospital for your needs, by HealthGrades

Best New Restaurants
The city's newest dining gems

Cheap Eats

Twenty great meals under $25

Best Places to Work
Atlanta's top forty, as chosen by employees

2008 Spa Guide
Our favorite day spas, med-spas, and nail salons

The following are available as downloadable PDFs and require Adobe Reader

101 Favorite Shops
101 Ways to Save Water

Winter08_HOMEcover
 
Winter Weddings 08
Atlanta magazine is one of the largest custom publishers in Atlanta. Atlanta magazine's Custom Publishing division produces turnkey publications for several organizations
>>LEARN MORE

Shopping Directory
Store Search


Atlanta magazine's online shopping directory includes a wide selection of shops and boutiques in the metro area.

Location
Category
Search By Name:


Hot Shop: Grey Parrot Gallery


Collector's Edition

Grey Parrot Gallery is a trove of priceless primary sources.
By ELIZABETH WESTBY

GreyParrot

Alex Branch removes a slightly browned piece of paper from its plastic sheath. “Hold it in your hands,” he says. And in an eerie, pull-back-the-veil sort of moment, the remarkably legible script of Lilyann Williams comes to life:

I am a woman that in the year 1787 was taken a prisoner by the Creek Indians in your state and my husband afterwards died. I was pregnant when taken, and while a prisoner brought forth a female child—and in May 1795 I was brought into Savanah and exchanged for, but the Indians refused to give up my child, which is now near twelve years old—and now being informed that . . . there is a way . . . to get her from [the] Savages . . . I humbly petition your Excelency to . . . take such steps as to you may seem mete. [1799, letter to Georgia Governor James Jackson] READ MORE


HOT SHOP ARCHIVES

December 2008: The SoShoelite
November 2008 : Wild Seed Boutique
October 2008: Savvy Snoot
September 2008: Merino
August 2008: Adrene Boutique
July 2008: BluPrint
June 2008: DrewLewis
April 2008: One 10 East
March 2008: Sid Mashburn
February 2008: Moops
January 2008: StaceAge
December 2007: Jac
November 2007: Thread House
October 2007: Artefacto
September 2007: 1Five0 

 

ADVERTISEMENTS





ADVERTISEMENT
If you could, would you relive your high school days?

Results from last poll...

Where would you rather live?

Milton
Poll Bar 26%
Buckhead
Poll Bar 73%