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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
September 17, 1992
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT OLYMPIC FLAG JAM '92
Georgia Dome
Atlanta, Georgia
8:07 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much. And Bill Hybl,
thank you for that introduction. And to Lieutenant Governor Pierre
Howard, and Ambassador Andy Young, and Robert Holder, IOC member
Anita DeFrantz, entertainers -- special entertainers, Dick Clark and
Whitney Houston, Gladys Knight. And of course, Billy Payne, a
Bulldog on the field, a bulldog for these Olympics. (Applause.)
Sir, I salute you for what you've done for Atlanta and all America.
You know, it's been said that if the South begins
anywhere it begins in Atlanta. (Applause.) Let me speak for
millions of Americans. If the 1996 Olympics begin anywhere they
begin in Atlanta tonight. And look at this wonderful new Dome. What
a metaphor for this region's can-do spirit. And this setting:
thousands of Georgians, all members of the family called America.
Look at this Olympic flag, a symbol of the kind of world
we want where differences are solved peacefully, not violently. What
a great night to back in the heart of the south.
A little while ago Whitney Houston sang about a
"precious moment in time." And already you should be proud of some
precious memories, for once again, the South has made the impossible
possible.
Skeptics said that no American city could impress the
Olympic Committee so soon after Los Angeles -- but you did. And
their trust means Atlanta will host the 100th anniversary of the
Olympic Games. (Applause.) Skeptics said you'd never win the Games
on your first attempt, no city ever had -- but you did. (Applause.)
And in 1996 you'll host a record number of countries, the largest
peacetime event of the 20th century.
And the Games are coming just as Americans are coming
together. The capital of Georgia is about to become the sports
capital of the entire world. (Applause.) And as it does, let's
remember past Olympics, for this event is like a tapestry --
seamless, indivisible. And for me, tonight is like Yogi Berra says
-- Deja vu all over again.
Last month I got to meet the 1992 Summer Olympic Team at
the White House. And the team competed hard, as America always has.
Competed to win -- and did -- as America always does. And think of
it. In Barcelona, we won 108 medals, the most ever since 1904 in a
nonboycotted Olympics. (Applause.)
The games showed how the Olympics have changed the
world, changed the world for the better, athletically as well as
economically. And they occurred without boycotts, without terrorism,
without politics. And that is as it should be.
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And Carl Sandburg once wrote, "The Republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream. " With us tonight are the
people who this year made dreams a reality. They showed how the
Olympics are not just poetry in motion, but history in action.
Athletes -- heroes -- who made us proud to be Americans and made
America proud.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, and I am proud to
present the United States Olympic Athletes. (Applause.)
END
8:10 P.M. EDT
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all over again. Last month I got to meet the 1992 Summer Olympic
team at the White House. ((Of course, I almost didn't recognize
them without commercials. )) //
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completely caught up in the Olympic spirit this summer. ((Still
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this year to earn a gold medal -- the ripe old age of 27. Let
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maturity and determination. )) //
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to be Americans -- and made America proud.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you -- I am proud to present -
-- the 1992 United States Olympic Athletes.
# # # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 11, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR KATHY SUPER
MEL LUKENS
KAREN GROOMES AM
GARY FOSTER
FROM:
EDE HOLIDAY
SUBJECT:
Atlanta Olympic Event -- September 17, 1992
Attached is information which may be helpful to you relating to
the President's appearance at the Atlanta Olympic event,
including a proposed schedule, copy of the official program, and
the invitation list for the reception preceding the event.
Please let me know if you need any additional information.
Attachments
Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games
250 Williams Street, Suite 6000
P.O. Box 1996
Atlanta, CA 30301-1996 USA
Telephone 404-224-1990
Facsimile 404-224-1997
September 11, 1992
Atlanta 1996
Ms. Ede Holiday
Assistant to the President
and Secretary of the Cabinet
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Ms. Holiday:
Ginger Watkins has asked us to provide you with the following itemization of
events surrounding "Olympic Flag Jam '92". This is the Opening Ceremony of ]
our Four Year Olympic Program, to be held on Thursday evening, September 17.
6:45 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. - We are pleased to extend an invitation to the President to
the private reception in the Dome which precedes the event. This party, in
"Kickers" Restaurant on the "LL" level (lower level), is an invitation-only affair
for elected officials and major corporate officials from businesses who have
become, or we expect will become, official sponsors of the 1996 Olympic Games.
The host is our President and Chief Executive Officer, Billy Payne, whose
leadership brought the Olympic Games back to the United States.
A list of those expected to attend is enclosed. The Atlanta Falcons' locker room
has been designated for the use of the President and his staff.
7:59 p.m. - The concert, hosted by Dick Clark and Whitney Houston, begins at
7:30 p.m. A script of the events leading up to the President's appearance is
enclosed, along with a copy of the official program to be distributed that
evening.
We look forward to your response, and to working with you to make this one of
the most memorable nights of Georgia's Olympic experience.
Sincerely,
flat Martin Director, E. Public and Appel Relations
monty Ap PEL
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(you) 224 1770
CC:
Mrs. Ginger T. Watkins
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Special Reception
September 17, 1992
6:00 p.m.
Acceptances
The Honorable & Mrs Wyche Fowler
us Senate
The Honorable & Mrs John Lewis
us House of Representatives
The Honorable & Mrs. 1. Roy Rowland
us House of Representatives
The Honorable & Mrs. Pierre Howard
Lt. Governor, State of Georgia
The Honorable & Mrs. Michael Lomax
Chairman, Fulton County Commissioner
The Honorable Lindsay Thomas
us House of Representatives
The Honorable Newt Gingrich
us House of Representatives
M/M Richard W. Pound
International Olympic Committee
Ms Anita DeFrantz
Executive Board
International Olympic Committee
M/M William J. Hybl
President, United States Olympic Committee
Dr & Mrs. Harvey W. Schiller
Executive Director, United States Olympic Committee
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M/M Robert M. Holder, Jr
Co-Chairman, Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Holder Corporation
Ambassador & Mrs. Andrew J. Young
Co-Chairman, Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games
M/M A.D. Frazier, Jr.
Sr. Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games
Mrs. Ginger T. Watkins
Executive Vice President
Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games
M/M Charles H. Battle, Jr.
Erecutive Vice President
Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games
M/M William H. McCahan
Chief Marketing Officer
Atlanta Centennial Olympic Properties
M/M M. Douglas Ivester
Senior Vice President
President Coca-Cola USA
M/M S. K. Johnston, Jr.
Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.
M/M Arthur M. Blank
President and Chief Executive Officer
Home Depot Corporation
Mr. W. T. Smith, Jr.
Vice President and Area General Manager
IBM Corporation
M/M Kenneth D. Lewis
President, General Bank
NationsBank Corporation
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SENT BY
Mr. Charles H. McTier
President
Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
M/M Horace H. Sibley
Senior Partner
King & Spalding
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REV: 9/9/92 -12:30P
"OLYMPIC FLAG JAM 192"
SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1992
dick clark productions
GEORGIA DOME
3003 W. Olive Ave.
1 Georgia Dome Dr.
Burbank, Ca. 91505
Atlanta, Ga. 30313-1591
818/841-3003
404/223-9200
FAX: 818/954-8609
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TALENT/NOTES
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11:00A
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"I'm In A Hurry"
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REHEARSE:
#50
PERFORMANCE #2
ALABAMA +2
(158)
"Between The Two of Them"
AREA: C
(MUSIC: LIVE)
REWEARSE:
#51
PERFORMANCE #3
ALABAMA +2
(163)
"American Pride"
AREA: C
(MUSIC: LIVE)
1:00P
HOUSE BAND READY ON STAGE
*1:00P - 1:45P
#35
PERFORMANCE #1
TRISHA YEARWOOD
(105)
"She's In Love with
Orchestra, B.G.
The- Boy"
Singers
AREA: B
(MUSIC: LIVE W/ORCHESTRA)
(more)
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RSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1992
TIME
ITEM/PG SEGMENT
TALENT/NOTES
*1:00P - 1:45P (CONT'D)
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(MUSIC: LIVE W/ORCHESTRA)
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(117)
"On The Wrong Side of
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AREA: B
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(61)
"T-R-O-U-B-L-E"
Orchestra
(MUSIC: LIVE W/ORCHESTRA)
AREA: B
RENEARSE:
#29
PERFORMANCE #2
TRAVIS TRITT,
(67)
"Lord Have Mercy On The
Orchestra, B.G.
Working Man"
Singers
AREA: B
(MUSIC: LIVE W/ORCHESTRA)
REHEARSE:
#30
PERFORMANCE #3
TRAVIS TRITT,
(73)
"I'm Gonna Be Somebody"
Orchestra, B.G.
Singers
(MUSIC: LIVE W/ORCHESTRA)
AREA: B
*2:30P - 3:00P
REHEARSE:
#6 (13)/
OLYMPIC MARCHING BAND
Ron Miziker,
#16(27)
01ympic Marching
Band
*3:00P - 4:00P
REHEARSH: OFF-CAMERA
Ron Miziker,
OLYMPIC MARCHING BAND
Olympic Band
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"CYMPIC FLAG JAM '92" - SCHEDULE (CONT'D)
SDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1992
TIME
ITEM/PG SEGMENT
TALENT/NOTES
3:00P - 4:00P
MEAL
*4:00P
OLYMPIC MARCHING BAND TO MEAL
4:00P - 5:30P
REHEARSE:
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Gladys Knight,
(180)
LEAD-IN TO JAM
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#55
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ALL TALENT
(181)
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(MUSIC: LIVE W/ORCHESTRA)
AREA: A +
B&C
*5:00P - 5:30P
REHEARSE:
#16
OLYMPIC ATHLETES
Ron Miziker,
(27)
01ympic Athletes
*5:30P
DREAM TEAM REPORTS/TO MEAL-
OLYLMPIC ATHLETES TO MEAL
5:30P - 7:30P
READY FOR SHOW
7:30P -10:00P
VTR: LIVE
IN SHOW ORDER:
#1
WELCOME/INTRO FILM
Anner.V.O.
( 1)
(MUSIC: OLYMPIC FANFARE-LIVE)
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VTPB
( 2)
(MUSIC: UNDER - SOT)
AREA: PROJECTION
(MUSIC: "EAND IN HAND"-LIVE
SCREENS
W/BG SINGERS)
(more)
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SENT BY:
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"CLYMPIC FLAG JAM '92" - SCHEDULE (CONT'D)
SDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1992
TIME
ITEM/PG SEGMENT
TALENT/NOTES
7:30P -10:00P (CONT'D)
#3
INTRO WHITNEY HOUSTON
Annor. V.O.
( 5)
#4
WHITNEY HOUSTON PERF:
Whitney Houston,
( 6)
"One Moment In Time"
House Orchestra
AREA: B
(MUSIC: LIVE W/ORCHESTRA)
#5
INTRO OLYMPIC FLAG
Whitney Houston
( 12)
ENTRANCE
AREA: B
#6
OLYMPIC FLAG ENTRANCE
Flag Carriers,
( 13)
Olympic Marching
Band, Mayor Jackson,
Billy Payne, Andrew
Young, Bob Holder,
Anita DeFrantz,
Atlanta Dream Team
(MUSIC: "PINNACLE"-
AREA: WEST END FIELD-
OLYMPIC MARCHING BAND-ATPS)
X TO B- & B RAMPS
#7
INTRO MAYOR JACKSON
Anncr.V.O.
( 14)
#8
MAYOR JACKSON TALK
Maynard Jackson
( 15)
AREA: B or VTPB
#9
INTRO BILLY PAYNE
Anner.V.O.
( 17)
#10
OLYMPIC FLAG RAISED SL
AREA: ON STAGE -SL
( 18)
(MUSIC: "OLYMPIC HYMM"-LIVE) AREA: Over c
(more)
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RSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1992
TIME
ITEM/PG SEGMENT
TALENT/NOTES
7:30P - 10:00P(CONT'D)
#11
BILLY PAYNE TALK
Billy Payne
( 19)
AREA: B
#12
INTRO GLADYS KNIGHT
Billy Payne
( 20)
AREA: B
#13
"THE DREAM"
Gladys Knight,
( 21)
Atlanta Dream Team,
(MUSIC: LIVE W/ORCHESTRA)
House Orchestra
AREA: ENTER
to B
#14
INTRO PRES. BUSH
Billy Payne
( 25)
AREA: B
(MUSIC: PLAYON - "RUFFLES
& FLOURISHES"/"BAIL TO
THE CHIEF")
#15
PRES. BUSH TALK/INTRO
Pres. George Bush
( 26)
OLYMPIC ATHLETES
AREA: 1ST ROW
STAIRS TO B
#16
OLYMPIC ATHLETES ENTRANCE
Flag Carriers,
( 27)
W/AMERICAN FLAG
Olympic Athletes,
small Clympic flags,
large American flag,
small American flags
(MUSIC: "OLYMPIC THEME"-
AREA: WEST END FIELD-
OLYMPIC MARCHING BAND-ATPB)
X TO A & B
#17
AMERICAN FLAG RAISED SR/
Dream Team,
(- 28)
W/SINGING OF NATIONAL ANTHEM
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Audience
(MUSIC: "STAR SPANGLED
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INTRO HONORARY CHAIRMAN -
PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH
(Billy Payne)
(AREA: B)
MUSIC: "RUFFLES & FLOURISHES"/
"HAIL TO THE CHIEF" - LIVE - HOUSE ORCHESTRA
BILLY PAYNE
We are honored tonight to have in
attendance one man who holds many
important titles. He is
Chief Executive of the United States
Government, Commander in Chief of the
Armed Forces, and especially appropriate
for this evening, he is the Honorary
Chairman of the United States olympic
Committee
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of
the United States.
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"Reflections"
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Dick Clark
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7 I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
halt,
Prairie [1918]
Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
Sonnets, I4
8
When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into
the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and
1
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the assassin
in the dust, in the cool
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tombs.
Cool Tombs [1918]
Among the radiant, ever venturing on,
Somewhere, with morning, as such spirits
9
Tell me if the lovers are losers
tell me if
any get more than the lovers.
Ib.
will.
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10 Lay me on an anvil, O God.
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Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
1964]
Let me pry loose old walls.
Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
Prayers of Steel [1920]
Paul Reynaud
1878-1966
11 Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos,
sob on the long cool winding saxophones.
2
We shall win because we are the stronger. 2
Go to it, O jazzmen.
Radio Speech [September 10, 1939]
Jazz Fantasia [1920]
12 The republic is a dream.
Carl Sandburg
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
1878-1967
Washington Monument by Night
3 I am the people - the mob the crowd - the
[1922]
mass.
13 Look out how you use proud words.
Do you know that all the great work of the
When you let proud words go, it is not easy to
world is done through me?
call them back.
I Am the People, the Mob [1916]
They wear long boots, hard boots.
4 Hog butcher for the world,
Primer Lesson [1922]
Tool maker, stacker of wheat,
14 Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will
Player with railroads and the nation's freight
come.³
The People, Yes [1936]
handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
15
The people will live on.
City of the big shoulders.
The learning and blundering people will live
Chicago [1916]
on.
They will be tricked and sold and again sold
5 The fog comes
And go back to the nourishing earth for
on little cat feet.
rootholds.
Ib.
It sits looking
over the harbor and city
16 The people know the salt of the sea
on silent haunches
and the strength of the winds
and then moves on.
Fog [1916]
lashing the corners of the earth.
The people take the earth
6 Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Water-
as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
loo.
Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
Shovel them under and let me work-
Ib.
I am the grass; I cover all.
And pile them high at Gettysburg
17 Man is a long time coming.
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother:
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the
conductor:
This old anvil laughs at many broken ham-
What place is this?
mers.
Where are we now?
Grass [1918]
There are men who can't be bought.
The People Will Live On [1936]
¹John F. Kennedy.
See J. R. Lowell, 568:19.
³Suppose They Gave a War, and No One Came?-
²Nous vaincrons parceque nous sommes les plus forts.
CHARLOTTE KEYES [1914-], article in McCall's [October
The phrase became a war slogan.
1966]
270] Henry W. Grady : Spokesman of the New South
"In
lowing year a state-wide local-option law was passed to permit
avoid. To make
any county to hold an election on prohibition on petition of
Howell, was ali
one-tenth of the voters. When the first prohibition referen-
hill and Inman,
dum was held in Atlanta and Fulton County in November
Grady refrair
:885, the Constitution contented itself with urging an honest
meetings of eith
election. After the drys had won by a majority of 228 out of
his dry friends,
The
some 7,000 votes, the paper insisted that the law be given a
should speak in
fair trial. Grady's principal concern, judging by his appeal
ther trial. He in
Grady.
"To the People of Atlanta" on the eve of that election, was
first of two addr
that the city should remain united:
must go down t
bition has been
Atlanta is built in the heart of a united people. Her glory is
hibition had no
the comradeship of her sons. Her boast and her strength has been,
that her name has had the power to fuse all factions, bury all dif.
imperfectly trie
ferences, silence all bickerings. To this, more than to all other
support this lat
things combined, she owes her greatness. Sad will it be for her -
an increase in
and sadder still for her people - if the passion of the pending
number of dist
contest should outlive the counting of the lawful ballots, and de-
practice of gari
stroy the unity of thought and sympathy and action that has made
general busines
her invincible in the past, and given promise to her future. There
Although the
is no reason why it should.
The result should be accepted in
that all these c
frankness and good spirit, and the divided factions should come
prohibition, the
together once more, shoulder to shoulder, for the glory and pros-
strong case. His
perity of Atlanta.
ies in temperan
Because of the
Grady particularly feared that prohibition might split the
tution carried ,
Democratic Party in the South or become a determining fac-
Instead, it publ
tor in the selection of candidates at the sacrifice of more im-
municated," co
portant issues.
both sides. It la
That, of dourse, is exactly what happened. The local anti-
ceived $1,676 £
prohibitionists organized, under the domination of Hoke
$1,371 for print
Smith, for the purpose of electing a wet mayor and city coun-
ever, that How
cil. Grady, with his skill for conciliation, finally induced both
"much more it
factions to come together and nominate a "fusion ticket."
campaign.18
However, the election of this ticket was only a temporary com-
"Grady is dr
promise. The antis, over Grady's protests, continued to work
Hemphill's net
for another referendum, even while the city was preparing for
the exposition. Thus, before the exhibits had been cleared
12 The first pro
from the buildings, Grady found himself confronted with the
ported in the Cons
necessity of taking a stand in a controversy he had sought to
November 6.
10 December 11
Henry Grady's
New South
Atlanta, A Brave and Beautiful City
HAROLD E. D/AVIS
The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa and London
18 I Introduction
loved Atlanta before an audience that included General William T.
tively recent)
Sherman, want to say to General Sherman, who is considered an
necessary sta
able man in our parts, though some people think he is a kind of
of a contem;
careless man about fire, that from the ashes he left us in 1864 we
tion between
have raised a brave and beautiful city; that somehow or other we
theme of the
have caught the sunshine in the bricks and mortar of our homes,
fortably into
and have builded therein not one ignoble prejudice or memory "88
theme in dif
From that sentence, another apt though clumsy title could have
gia: Steven
come: Somehow Or Other, a phrase suggesting that Grady used
Lewis Nicho
everything at hand to accomplish his ends, including things that
Roger L. Ra:
perhaps were inappropriate.
Kousser, alti
Grady said all the right things to show that he wished to industri-
vast implicat:
alize the South, that he longed for reconciliation with the North,
Excellent SLL
that he was committed to improving agriculture, and that he
sell and Edw
wanted something approaching justice for black people. On the
In a justly
surface, he espoused those things and pulled the shining threads of
of cities in 1
the Movement together and wove them into a fabric presenting just
haved like in
such a picture. Its front, like the face of a tapestry, showed an irre-
tensive depo
proachable pattern of advancement for the South and became the
and politica
image that men acclaimed; but like a tapestry, it had a backside
places over
where the threads bunched and knotted. The backside forms a pic-
struggle
ture of its own, one seldom seen, a truer one, a more human vision.
new villages
In the rear, one sees not a perfect picture but a creditable work.
established
Except in a general and sentimental sense, Grady's heart be-
as led by G
longed not to the whole South, but to Atlanta, proclaimed at the
moved to be
height of his powers as his "first and only love." It was for Atlanta
dicated but
that he used most of his instincts, intelligence, energy, and time.
quite tramp
This book will explain that, somehow or other, he strove to make a
established
difference for Atlanta, leaving the rest of the South to enjoy what
Augusta bel
the city could not garner for itself. In that vein, this book seeks to de-
lumbus and
fine what the New South Movement really was to Grady, a definition
Students
based in part upon his words, which always were eloquent, but more
and reader.
upon his works, which always were interesting. It is the backside of
Struggle an
the tapestry that we shall examine.
More recen
Aside from theses, dissertations, and an occasional article, Geor-
quences of
gia in the 1880s has, in modern times, had serious study compara-
that left a tr
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ALFRED A KNOPF: NEW YORK
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ATLANTA
1917. The American collection includes paintings by Inman, Sar-
gent, Bierstadt, Inness, Twachtman, and Hassam, and sculpture by
Hiram Powers. Holdings in Italian painting and sub-Saharan Afri-
can art are also outstanding.
LOCATION: 1280 Peachtree Street NE. HOURS: 10-5 Tuesday-Satur-
day, 10-9 Wednesday, 12-5 Sunday. FEE: Yes. TELEPHONE: 404-
892-3600.
ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Headquartered at McElreath Hall in the Buckhead section, the
society maintains a museum, several gardens, and two restored
houses on this site. The 1920s Swan House is the masterwork of
Atlanta architect Philip Trammell Shutze. A perfectly symmetrical
Palladian house, it is exquisitely detailed both inside and out with
many representations of swans, a favorite bird of Mrs. Inman, who
lived in the house from its completion until her death in 1965. The
furnishings represent her eclectic tastes. Outside the formal gar-
dens include a boxwood parterre and an Italianate cascade, also
designed by Shutze.
The Tullie Smith House, imported to this site from nearby
DeKalb County, provides a glimpse of mid-nineteenth-century,
farm life. The 1840s main house is a simple two-story wooden
structure, complete with a "Parson's Room" with separate entrance.
The house is furnished correctly for the period, as are the many
restored outbuildings, where living-history demonstrations are
held. The historical society's museum has the best history collection
in Atlanta, including an outstanding assemblage of Civil War guns,
munitions, flags, maps, medical supplies, and uniforms. There are
also interpretive exhibits devoted to the civil rights movement and
to the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition, the fair
that put Atlanta on the map as a major metropolis. Along with the
period gardens at the two houses is the Quarry Garden, located in a
former granite quarry, which is planted with native trees, shrubs,
and herbaceous wildflowers.
LOCATION: 3101 Andrews Drive NW. HOURS: 9-5:30 Monday-
Saturday, 12-5:30 Sunday. FEE: Yes. TELEPHONE: 404 261 1837.
814-4000
ng
OPPOSITE: Ionic columns separate the entrance hall of Swan House from the stair hall, with
its superb spiral staircase.
Limay
Henry Grady
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