Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Two cool alternative news sources in Atlanta
Atlanta Progressive News
http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news.html
which has a good article about the history and current resurrection of
The Great Speckled Bird
http://bird.thinkspeak.net/
which was the Atlanta underground newspaper in the 60s and 70s when the counterculture was still hanging around midtown.
My mom said the other day that she remembers going to clubs in midtown in the late 60s when they lived in North Georgia and seeing hippies, which were still a rare sight in Georgia at that time. She's pretty radical now, but very sheltered then, so I wonder what it was like to be faced with that alternative to the life she was living, just out of UGA, married, student teaching, with a husband soon to enlist in Air Force pilot training to avoid the worst of the draft.
I'll have to ask her more about that later.
No RSS feeds on either one yet, but hopefully soon.
Anna
http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news.html
which has a good article about the history and current resurrection of
The Great Speckled Bird
http://bird.thinkspeak.net/
which was the Atlanta underground newspaper in the 60s and 70s when the counterculture was still hanging around midtown.
My mom said the other day that she remembers going to clubs in midtown in the late 60s when they lived in North Georgia and seeing hippies, which were still a rare sight in Georgia at that time. She's pretty radical now, but very sheltered then, so I wonder what it was like to be faced with that alternative to the life she was living, just out of UGA, married, student teaching, with a husband soon to enlist in Air Force pilot training to avoid the worst of the draft.
I'll have to ask her more about that later.
No RSS feeds on either one yet, but hopefully soon.
Anna
