Historic Oakland Foundation is happy to welcome one of our newest staff members, Charvis Buckholts. Charvis joined the Foundation in January as our new director of education and youth programs. He’ll be improving and expanding upon our educational offerings such…
Why Volunteer at Oakland Cemetery? Historic Oakland Foundation has more than 300 active volunteers that help share the story of the cemetery and the City of Atlanta. If you’ve ever been to any of the special events – like our Halloween Capturing…
2022 marked a year of tremendous growth at Oakland Cemetery and Historic Oakland Foundation as we continue to expand our ability to deliver on our mission to preserve, restore, enhance, and share historic Oakland Cemetery in partnership with the City…
Historic Oakland Foundation is happy to welcome our newest staff member, Sandy White. Sandy joined the Foundation in October as our new director of adult programs and volunteers, which means she'll be organizing many of the Oakland Cemetery events you…
Historian Franklin Garrett called Oakland Cemetery “Atlanta’s most tangible link between the past and the present.” Through its landscapes and the stories of its residents, Oakland reflects the diverse historical development of Atlanta. As a vibrant public park and a…
Historic Oakland Foundation is excited to announce that it has joined Museums for All, a signature access program of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), administered by the Association of Children’s Museums (ACM), to encourage people of all…
Neale Nickels, HOF’s senior director of capital projects is back with another update on the ongoing rehabilitation of Oakland Cemetery’s iconic 1899 Bell Tower building. Since our last update in August, sheetrock has gone up, the porches have roofs again,…
In Storytelling in Museums, editor Adina Langer compiles chapters written by museum professionals from around the world that explore the efficacy and ethics of storytelling in a museum setting. Programming GRA Parker Hilley recently interviewed Langer about what attracted her…
I love stories. I can spend hours reading blurbs on the back of books or watching movie trailers because I love the feeling of something capturing and enticing me. Telling history is, in essence, storytelling. There is a plot, there…
In July 1974, a ten-year-old boy playing putt-putt golf near Annapolis, Maryland, observed a former vice-president swinging away at the adjacent driving range. The young boy asked Spiro Agnew for his autograph. As he signed the back of my scorecard, Mr. Agnew…