Headed here today….UPDATE — photos!
I posted this morning that I was headed to the Urban Picnic at the Sweet Auburn Curb Market and here are some photos in case you missed it. Skip down below to see a few more.
The Urban Picnic Presented by the Atlanta Street Food Coalition
Date: Friday, April 30, 2010
Time: 11:00am – 2:00pm
Location: Sweet Auburn Curb Market
The Curb Market spills onto the sidewalks for the return of the Atlanta Urban Picnic! Atlanta’s up-and-coming independent food artisans bring their carts and tables and join the Curb Market’s nine restaurants for an outdoor festival showcasing healthy, gourmet lunch foods. Fast food doesn’t have to be bad food – taste how good casual downtown food-on-the-go can be. Slow Food Atlanta, partner for the event, suggests you bring your appetite; blanket optional.
I had jambalaya from this vendor and it was great!
Look at what lovely weather the Street Food Coalition folks had! It was a great day to be out in the city — still is! See participating vendors after the jump.
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Now this is smart growth
I love to walk up to the Sweet Auburn area near downtown Atlanta and today I had the perfect excuse: the dedication of a new mural about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., at the King Historic site.
What can I possibly say about Dr. King that could do justice to his legacy? He touched everyone, including me, a white Long Islander who stood, rapt, listening to the loudspeaker in my Junior High homeroom when my social studies teacher played Dr. King’s last speech each year on the King holiday (which was not then a holiday, at least not in New York state).
An excerpt from that speech, given April 3, 1968, has pride of place in the mural, as you can see in the photo below.
If you don’t get the chills when he says “I may not get there with you,” well, that’s as good an indication as any that you’re not alive!
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