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John Heisman (1869-1936)

A legendary coach who helped create college football's national following, John Heisman was the head coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta from 1904 to 1919. He led Georgia Tech to the first of its four national championships in 1917 and posted a career record of 102-29-7 in sixteen seasons. Heisman's career winning percentage of .779 remains the best in school history by a wide margin. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.

The son of a German immigrant and a native of Cleveland, Ohio, John William Heisman was born on October 23, 1869. Heisman attended Brown University in Rhode Island (1887-89) and the U...

James Moody (1925-2010)

James Moody, a jazz saxophonist, composer, and band leader, has been recognized worldwide as one of the early innovators of bebop. He honored his birthplace with "Savannah Calling," a blues song he composed and performed on his 1969 album, The ...

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AJC Decatur Book Festival

The AJC Decatur Book Festival has gone virtual! Online events are scheduled from September 4 - October 4, 2020.

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High Museum of Art

Located in Midtown Atlanta, the High Museum of Art is one of the most important art museums in the Southeast. Its permanent collection of more than 11,000 objects includes a ra...

Stuckey's

Stuckey's was born in the 1930s just as automobile traffic began to increase to and from Florida along the Eastern Seaboard. Williamson S. Stuckey Sr., of Eastman, had an especially bou...