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Stop! Drop! and Roll! Who doesn’t remember learning fire safety growing up?  Fire alarms and sprinklers are so much a part of the buildings we enter that we hardly give them more than a [...]

Photographs of Everyday Life {Pictured Above: One of the treasures of the Guy Hayes collection. Pictured is a kitsch image of a puppy in a cream pitcher. Though taken earlier, this photo echoes [...]

This year, the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce is celebrating its 80th Anniversary.  Since 1938, the Chamber has been an instrumental part of the county, helping to shape the growth of DeKalb through [...]

Scrapbooks are a curated way to display the things that people were most passionate about. Moving into the twentieth century, people began collecting items from their own life. “My dad takes most [...]

Avondale was the first planned community in the Southeastern United States. Avondale had many amenities: paved streets, a lake for fishing, leisure boating, and swimming, a pool, tennis courts, [...]

“Well, I’m sure you’ll find someone somewhere who’ll have you.”  ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Often, I get asked, as a historian, how did people in the ‘olden times’ meet [...]