“Live” Blog Event to Re-create Great Atlanta Fire of 1917

Steve Goss | WABE

May 21st, 2012

Today, May 21st, Atlantans can re-live a catastrophic event in our city’s history, literally, minute by minute as it occurred 95 years ago. Trevor Beemon, Manager of Digital Communications at the Atlanta History Center, and Sue VerHoef, Archivist at the Kenan Research Center, are presenting a “live” blog event of the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917. Here, Beemon and VerHoef share the details with WABE’s Steve Goss…

http://atlantahistorycenter.tumblr.com/tagged/atlanta_fire

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