Free-For-All Friday 7/28/17
Decatur Metro | July 28, 2017 | 8:13 amFeel free to use this post to make comments and ask questions about local topics not yet discussed here over the past week.
Feel free to use this post to make comments and ask questions about local topics not yet discussed here over the past week.
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The AJC Decatur Book Festival is in 35 days.
The AJC Decatur Book Festival is the largest independent book festival in the country and one of the five largest overall. Since its launch, more than 1,000 world-class authors and hundreds of thousands of festival-goers have crowded the historic downtown Decatur square to enjoy book signings, author readings, panel discussions, an interactive children’s area, live music, parades, cooking demonstrations, poetry slams, writing workshops, and more.
Visit our web site https://decaturbookfestival.com/
Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/DecaturBookFestival/
Adopted!! http://www.decaturmetro.com/2017/07/09/decatur-orange-kitten-ready-for-adoption/
Thanks to DM and to everyone who shared the post. Tigger is now named Jackson and is enjoying his forever home.
Woohooo!!
Hey everyone we are 14 days away from the 17th annual Decatur BBQ Blues & Bluegrass Festival. We have a fantastic lineup of bands, great Q and fun for everyone. We have changed our hours to a bit later 2pm – 9pm. Come join us Saturday, August 12th in Harmony Park and the Dollar Tree Lot at 630 East Lake. Tickets now on sale by clicking banner at top of DM page. Proceeds go to the Solarium as well as a grant pool that supports Decatur based charities throughout the year.
For more information: http://www.decaturbbqfestival.com
Woodlands Garden is wrapping up with a busy summer schedule…If you missed today’s Garden Tour at 11am don’t forget to sign up for our e-newsletter (link below) to stay in touch to learn about this monthly free opportunity. This weekend come check out:
Saturday, July 29 at 4pm-Yoga in Nature
July 30th from 2-4pm: Plant Sale and Music in the Garden with Garden Fresh Pickers!
Sure to be fun and cool under the canopy at the Garden so come enjoy one of these events or stroll the trails any day. Happy Summer!
Woodlands Garden
932 Scott Blvd
http://www.woodlandsgarden.org
Are any of you planning to travel for the eclipse? Or will you experience it here at home? We will get a +97% eclipse according to something I read somewhere.
I’d love to travel to a place where there will be a full eclipse, but it’ll be the first Monday of my new school year. I just don’t feel like I can take that day off. It should still be pretty cool here. Parker, you are correct about the 97%. The peak will be 2:36:53 pm. From here: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/25/16019892/solar-eclipse-2017-interactive-map
Luggage (love the Pratchett ref, BTW), are you at Georgia State?
Anyway, we’ll probably pull the kids from school for the day and head out to Greenville or somewhere in the north GA mountains where there will a total eclipse. (I’ll wait to make sure it won’t be totally overcast, and I’ll see if there is anyplace available a little closer to stay Sunday night so we’re spending the whole day driving.) Normally I hate to pull the kids from school, but I figure this will be one the one chance **in our whole lives** to see a total solar eclipse, so it’s worth it.
Love that you got the Pratchett ref! Not at GSU–just a private school that doesn’t start so very early. Glad to hear you’re going to take your kids to see it in all its glory. There will be another one in ’24, but it’ll track well north of here. In 2078, Atlanta will be smack dab in the middle of a total eclipse. I definitely won’t be around for that one, but your kids probably will be (and maybe you, too!). But this may well be your best chance to enjoy such a cool thing with your children. Nothing that will be going on at school that day will be more important than sharing that with them.
An aside: fun website on the whens and wheres of eclipses–https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/eclipse/?utm_term=.2248ec817da6
We are camping at Tugaloo State Park (on Lake Hartwell) for the long weekend and plan to float our kayaks out into the lake for an unobstructed view of the eclipse. The park is in the 100% total eclipse zone!
Please do not forget that Dairy Queen is still in Decatur. The family that owns it took on a loan to reopen and I know their expenses are higher now and business has not been as vibrant as before.
Have been there 4 times in the last 3 weeks. That count as doing my part?
I see that APS and Fulton Co schools (as well as others to our north) are holding students past their normal dismissal time to avoid them looking at the sun. Should Decatur have these same concerns? I know the eclipse will be partial here, but are there still risks? Forgive my ignorance.
Keeping them in school longer? Boy that’s going to make students love science!
Thanks Eclipse. The last eclipse in Decatur was a partial one, during school hours as I recall, maybe in the late 1980s, early 90s. I was teaching in room 315, a classroom next to one of the interior courtyards. There was much hand wringing prior to the event about keeping the students indoors to protect them from adolescent form of “Here, hold my beer”. It was pretty cool watching the early afternoon sunlight turn to twilight. I remember birds and crickets making those early morning/twilight sounds. The kids were impressed for a few minutes before saying, “Mr. B, Can we do some more bookwork. Mr. Streeter was the only one who let his students outside. They had constructed some device that reflected all the action onto a screen. That Mr. Streeter, he was one of a kind!
What I remember the most was, it was pretty dang cool.
Please tell me that this comment was a joke. Do we really have a generation of Decatur youths that have to be held back in school because they don’t know better than to stare at the sun? If so, I weep for the future.
Told ya so. They are holding students and delaying dismissal.
This is what we made in school in 1984 for the solar eclipse: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/box-pinhole-projector.html. Cheap and easy to make with common household items, but best of all, it provides a safe way to view the eclipse without having to purchase expensive glasses.
I remember doing this!
You can also buy AAS approved glasses at Kroger for $2