Tag: World War II
Editor’s Journal: Announcing my retirement from Atlanta magazine
I’m retiring as editor in chief of Atlanta magazine after the March issue so I can write my book, Finding Nicole. It’s been an honor to follow in the footsteps of such towering figures as Jim Townsend and Lee Walburn. Just as it was an honor to succeed Betsy Riley. As a journalist and editor, I’ve spent my career telling other people’s stories. This is the one that chose me.
“And I saw that what pretended to be a national reawakening was simply the beginning of a reign of terror”
A Southern white woman abroad, Marguerite Kratina found much to admire in Nazi Germany—until she didn’t. Her letters tell the story.
Flashback: How Trappist monks built Conyers’s Monastery of the Holy Spirit
Between chants and prayer, the monks mixed and wheeled concrete to build their immense Abbey Church in Rockdale County. Today, the monastery is a must-see attraction and generates revenue by making stained glass, selling bonsai trees, and offering silent retreats for laypeople. Plus, they bake a mean biscotti.



