A Daniel Pearl homecoming
Daniel Pearl on fiddle with Todd Mack, the organizer of Friends of Daniel Pearl. Photo: courtesy/Todd Mack
Friends of Daniel Pearl — more a happening than a musical group — performs Saturday at the Candler Park Fall Fest, for which I happen to be doing pro bono PR work. I wrote the following remembrance of Danny, who was a nice guy and a journalistic colleague in Atlanta in the early ’90s. This piece also appears in a guide to the Fall Fest published in the print edition of the The Sunday Paper.
I remember him as a warm smile on a lanky body, framed by a doorway. I wasn’t the only person who thought you could see in his eyes that he was happy to meet you.
Daniel Pearl was a friend of a friend, another young Atlanta journalist. He was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He also was a fine musician — the fiddler in Ottoman Empire, a great, local alt-country band in the early 1990s. Then, he left Atlanta Read more
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