This presentation is an exploration of the history of African American neighborhoods which no longer exist in the Buckhead area. All that remains of these neighborhoods are cemeteries that tell a unique and fascinating history.

Teacher’s Bio:

Dr. La’Neice Littleton is originally from Denver, Colorado and has been living in Atlanta for nearly 15 years. She holds a Ph.D. in Humanities with concentrations in African American Studies and History and a master’s degree in African American Studies from Clark Atlanta University, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Ethnic Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Following her doctoral studies, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Humanities and African American Life at Clemson University, where she worked on the Call My Name Project and African American Burial Ground at Woodland Cemetery Project. Dr. Littleton has taught multiple courses in Humanities, History, and African American Studies at institutions such as Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Agnes Scott College. She is a member of the National Council for Black Studies and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. As a public historian specializing in community engagement, Dr. Littleton works to provide community members access to gathering and preserving history in a myriad of ways which include museum tours, developing exhibitions, conducting and supporting oral history projects, participating in community-based preservation projects, and conducting community presentations and workshops.

Nobel-Prize winning writer William Faulkner often wrote about hunters and farmers, shopkeepers and aldermen, and many others who dealt with the struggles they faced in shadow of an encroaching modern world. Morality and faith were rivers that bent their way through some of his most well-known narratives, and we will look at the different roles these characters played and how faith colored their world.

Class Overview: During this class series will read and discuss work from writers Donald Hall, Jane Kenyon, William Faulkner, and Wendell Berry, focusing on how they related to the world of work and how it relates to faith and the environment. Over the course of four sessions, we will read poetry and prose from writers who interpreted and synthesized the rapidly changing world and the land around them through their work. As the human relationship to land and work shifted over the years, how did they navigate this and what role did faith play? Donald Hall, Jane Kenyon, and William Faulker were not overt in their religious beliefs, but faith and morality play a large role in their work. Wendell Berry, still living and going on six decades of writing, is more outspoken on faith and intensely connected to the environment.

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Grab a cup of coffee in Five Points and join us as we re-launch the Connections Sunday school class! We’ll preserve the first 10-15 minutes for fellowship and will then sit in a circle for conversation. You all may have heard or read Kate Bowler (Rev. Rebekah Close LeMon has quoted her “Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved” in sermons in the past). She does a regular podcast and interviews all kinds of interesting folks. We’ll use four of her podcast episodes as conversation starters this winter. These can all be downloaded through the link below. They range from 27-42 minutes in length—perfect for listening on a walk or a commute. And if you can’t listen ahead of time, come anyway!

“No More Do Overs”: Jill & Walter Hall cover the Podcast conversation between Kate Bowler & Mary Louise Kelly.

Unlike Kenyon, Hall, and Faulkner, Wendell Berry is still alive. Collected in A Timbered Choir are Berry’s “Sabbath Poems,” a solid body of poems that resulted from meditative walks in the woods he enjoyed nearly every Sunday for two decades, time that allowed him to “observe the world through his poetry.” We will dig into this collection and explore how faith and his view on work and the environment shaped his work.

Class Overview: During this class series will read and discuss work from writers Donald Hall,  Jane Kenyon, William Faulkner, and Wendell Berry, focusing on how they related to the world of work and how it relates to faith and the environment. Over the course of four sessions, we will read poetry and prose from writers who interpreted and synthesized the rapidly changing world and the land around them through their work. As the human relationship to land and work shifted over the years, how did they navigate this and what role did faith play? Donald Hall, Jane Kenyon, and William Faulker were not overt in their religious beliefs, but faith and morality play a large role in their work. Wendell Berry, still living and going on six decades of writing, is more outspoken on faith and intensely connected to the environment.

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Meeting ID: 831 0795 5713

Passcode: 281829