Common Birds of Atlanta
Presented by Jim Wilson
April 19, 2007

He later became the first staff person for this society as the Important Bird Areas Program Coorinator.

1st Annual Plant and Seed Swap
and Garden Program *
April 21, 2007

* Our monthly Third Thursday program has been augmented this month with this new annual event.
   

Special Guests

Gardening with Heirloom Seeds by Lynn Coulter
Legends in the Garden by Linda Copeland
   

Dr. Lewis has authored or co-authored five books: Considerable Passions: Golf, the Masters and the Legacy of Bobby Jones (2000), The PGA Championship: The Season's Final Major with John Companiotte (2004), The Changing Face of Public History: The Chicago Historical Society and the Transformation of an American History Museum (2005), Bobby Jones and the Quest for the Grand Slam (2005) and A Host to History: The Story of the Atlanta Athletic Club (2005).

She recently published Don't Ask What I Shot: How Eisenhower's Love of Golf Helped Shape 1950's America.

From the Barnes and Noble Website:

"Public awareness of President Eisenhower’s obsession with golf led to his being simultaneously credited with the surge in the sport’s popularity and criticized for running the country from a golf course. By his second term, however, Ike and golf represented a bygone era because, more than any other sport in America, golf’s moneyed culture remained insulated from the race and class struggles that were transforming the country in the postwar period. Don’t Ask What I Shot tells the story of how Ike’s golf game functioned as a dual symbol of progress and provincialism. It also details Eisenhower’s friendships with Bobby Jones, Arnold Palmer, Bob Hope, and Winston Churchill, among others."

Join Dr. Lewis, of Kennesaw State University (History and Philosophy) for a lively discussion on one of America's most famous golfers and his impact on the sport.
   

Below is the book's review from Amazon.com:

It's June 1947 in Riverton, Alabama. Ten-year-old Graham and his pals, Blake and Todd, are fresh out of school for the summer and don't have a care in the world. Or do they? The annual slingshot battle, using chinaberries as ammo, is only a few weeks away and they need a plan. Last year their tree house was demolished by the mock orange cannon of the Ramar Renegades. Following her sister's death in February, Ruth St. John has been alone in her ante-bellum house. With Rachael gone, the old woman develops an interest in the outside world, especially the "roughnecks" she sees through her window. Gayle Freemont, a young black professor at the Negro college, wants to have a wife and children but is reluctant to get trapped in the South where he is just another "boy." The childless wife of a prominent architect, Jane Forrester is entering menopause and fears that life is passing her by. She resents her husband's selfish and domineering behavior and longs to find happiness before it's too late. Graham's father Pete is the county school superintendent. He considers himself quite progressive with respect to race relations--until the day he has to put his progressive ideas to the test. Priscilla Andrews teaches at the elementary school. Her acne-scarred face has caused some of the boys to call her Worm Face behind her back. But she maintains her professional bearing and decides that she and black people share a "skin problem." Crayton Turner pedals his Popsicle cart as fast as he can, trying to reach the construction site before the workers leave-which proves to be a fateful decision.