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Turtle Eggs and More Druid Hills in the Civil SUMMER, 2013 Volume 27, Number 2 CONTENTS PRESIDENT’S COLUMN PG 3 DH PARKS SHOW THEIR STUFF PG 3 2103 TOUR RECAP PG 4 HISTORY OF TELEPHONES IN DH PG 5 GARDENING WITH CHICKENS PG 5 PERENNIALS PROLONG THE SEASON PG 6 FERNBANK SCHOOL IS MOVING PG 6 HISTORIAL PRESERVATION PG 7 From DHCA email June 1 JULY 4TH PARADE IN DRUID HILLS at press time Don’t miss the 35th annual Druid Hills Fourth of July Parade! To receive email updates, Join a few hundred of your friends and neighbors as we march up email [email protected] to be added to Deny Clifton Ridge email distribution list Springdale and back down Oakdale in a display of patriotism and community. If you’ve never participated in the parade, you’ve Neighbors, After days of tree destruction at Clifton Ridge, we missed out on a truly unique tradition in our neighborhood. Be just got some excellent news: As you may know, our sure to dress up your bikes and strollers, your pets, your kids and Commissioners Jeff Rader and Kathie Gannon have had yourselves … and if you have any musical ability whatsoever, feel a separate lawsuit against DeKalb County, which challenges the Zoning Board’s approval of free to join our ad-hoc marching band! Festivities kick off at the Land Disturbance Permit. 11:00 a.m. Parade begins and ends at the corner of Oakdale As of Friday (May 31) around 11 a.m., Judge Courtney Johnson issued a Temporary Road and The By Way. Refreshments following. Restraining Order, which will stop all work at Clifton Ridge until June 13, when a hearing is scheduled before Judge Asha Jackson. We owe a great deal of thanks to Jeff, Kathie and their lawyer, Scott Bennett! And don’t forget: our own two lawsuits and appeals are still underway. We just filed a 30-page appeal brief, including 1500 pages of supporting documents, with the Georgia Court Turtle Eggs and More of Appeals. We’re doing everything we can to stop the destruction. by Suzanne Ledoux Also, we must remember this fight is not just about Clifton Ridge — it’s a fight for ALL of Druid Hills, DeKalb County and the entire state. We’re fighting to ensure no developer Cloudy skies and can destroy the protections offered by 138 Georgia Historic Preservation Districts. the threat of rain did not Hang in there with us — and enjoy the sounds of silence at Clifton Ridge. discourage these park Steering Committee, Deny Clifton Ridge/Preserve Druid Hills lovers! Neighborhood families gathered at Rutledge Park on EAST LAKE ROAD FREE LIBRARY Saturday, April 27, for for Middle School the first annual Turtle Egg Hunt, hosted by the and Young Adult Readers Rutledge Park We have recently installed a free library box Community Outreach near the sidewalk at our home at 2252 East Lake Group. Committee Rd.(Beckwith House). We hope to fill it with books members stuffed and hid for Middle School and Young Adult readers. Please more than 700 “turtle feel free to come by and swap your books for any of eggs,” colorful toy eggs the books in the box. filled with candy and I will be emailing a list of available titles on a prizes. The upper tier of weekly basis. If you are interested in receiving this the park grounds was completely strewn in color by the time the hiding was done. email update please forward your address to And when it came time for the finding, kids were gathering them by the grocery bag [email protected]. full! There were also refreshments and rice crispy treats to share, as well as educational HAPPY READING! handouts on an indigenous reptile park resident, the eastern box turtle. The handout on the eastern box turtle can be downloaded at: www.RutledgePark.org The Rutledge Park Community Outreach Group was recently formed to promote park awareness and plan fun, free family activities. Future events will include a Druid Hills in the Civil War backyard birding expedition, a morning of tree identification, birdhouse building and by Richard H. Sams, PhD decorating, instructions on installing a bat house, and a neighborhood potluck. Dates to be announced. As Atlanta commemorates its Sesquicentennial of the Civil War in 2014, let us in Druid Excitement is growing among Rutledge Park enthusiasts since the design phase for Hills recall that on July 19, 1864, the land that was later to become our community was occupied by an invading army. Led by General William Tecumseh Sherman, the army’s intent the park has begun. Dekalb County has selected the local firm AMEC to provide was to capture the most critical rail and transportation center supplying the forces of the hardscape, and a preliminary design for the park entrance, playground, and upper Southern Confederacy: Atlanta. The four ensuing battles of the Atlanta Campaign have always terrace trail will be submitted in mid-spring. A public meeting will be held in mid- received and will in 2014 receive much attention, particularly the one at Peachtree Creek. But summer to seek community input. A clean-up day will be held in June, focused on shouldn’t Druid Hills’ role in that same history also be recognized? Besides the Army of the invasive plant removal and native plant protection. Actual construction is expected to Cumberland approaching from Peachtree Creek, Sherman’s two other massive armies advanced begin by late summer and to be completed by autumn, just in time for tree and shrub on Atlanta through Decatur and through North Decatur, or what we now call the Druid Hills- planting. Emory University area. For more information about Rutledge Park, to make a donation, or to submit This national history has never been commemorated by Decatur or Emory University to ideas for future park events, please visit: www.RutledgePark.org. my knowledge, though Emory has a remarkable Special Collection of Civil War documents and a marker denotes the site of Judge James Paden’s plantation on which Emory lies. Sherman himself headquartered just outside what is now Emory’s East Campus gate on the above date THE DRUID HILLS NEWS PRE-SORT and just outside of Emory’s Briarcliff Campus on July 20 and 21 that year. But little has been Newsletter of the publicized about the former owners of Druid Hills’ lands or their historical role, except in a few Druid Hills Civic Association STANDARD U.S. POSTAGE markers appropriately placed around our neighborhood by the Georgia Historical Commission P.O. Box 363 in 1964. Even few Atlantans know about Cox’s Division of General Schofield’s 23rd Army Decatur, GA 30031-0363 PAID Permit No. 515 Corps with whom Sherman traveled or how they occupied what was then the judge’s plantation, Athens, GA now Emory village, the Druid Hills Golf Course, and the main campus area on that hot day of July 19. To my knowledge, no efforts have ever been made to commemorate any of these nationally historic events, yet we designate ourselves a “Historic District.” The present historical emphasis, of course, has been based upon Druid Hills’ landscaping designs by Frederick Law Olmsted, which came much later and deals solely with the architectural integrity of our beautiful homes and landscape. But let us remember historically that Druid Hills’ early settlers endured the Civil War’s devastation and collapsed economy, an event that few in this nation had to suffer. And after that war, they were abandoned, left with the task of picking up the pieces of that wrecked economy and rebuilding what we enjoy today. 2 THE DRUID HILLS NEWS Summer 2013 CIVIC ASSOCIATION OFFICIALS Important Numbers The deadlines Officers Ambulance/Fire/Emergency Medical Service . .911 for the fall issue of the President . .Justin Critz . [email protected] Police – Emergency . .911 First Vice President . .Christopher Hamilton . [email protected] Druid Hills News are: Admin. Vice-President . .Cathy Vandenberg . [email protected] Administrative/General Info . .404-294-2605 Comm. Vice-President . .OPEN . Criminal Investigations . .404-294-2550 Advertising — August 10 Secretary . .Ken Gibson . [email protected] Police – General Information . .404-294-2000 Copy — August 17 Treasurer . .Mike Hellerstein . [email protected] Center Precinct . .404-294-2580 East Precinct . .770-482-0300 Publication will be in Division Chairs mid-September Division 1 (City of Atlanta) . [email protected] South Precinct . .404-286-7911 Barbara Vogel . .404-377-1667 Animal Services—Stray Animals . .404-294-2996 Patricia Elam After Hours . .404-294-2519 Division 2 (Ponce Corridor in DeKalb) . [email protected] Atlanta Legal Aid—DeKalb . .404-377-0701 Sign up for Ann Wallace Board of Education—DeKalb . .678-676-1200 complimentary E-Alerts Jeremy Turner Division 3 (W. of Briarcliff & S. of University in DeKalb) . [email protected] Board of Health—DeKalb . .404-294-3700 for news, events, Robert Vicevich . .404-249-9215 Business License . .404-371-2462 neighborhood updates, and Division 4 (b/w Briarcliff, N. Decatur & Lullwater Ck.) . [email protected] Chamber of Commerce—DeKalb . .404-378-8000 more, at [email protected]. Mike St. Louis Citizen’s Drainage Program . .404-297-3840 Division 5 (Between Peavine Ck., N. Decatur, & RR Lines) . [email protected] Conventions & Visitors Bureau . .770-492-5000 Stay up to date in Druid Hills OPEN Code Enforcement . .770-724-7940 by signing up for computer E-lerts. Division 6 Deaf Teletype . .404-294-2677 Karen Rushing 1. Go to our website, Division 7 (“University” Streets west of Emory University) [email protected] DeKalb Community Relations (Police) . .404-286-7955 OPEN DeKalb Medical Center . .404-501-1000 www.druidhills.org Division 8 (Emory U., N. Decatur Rd.
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