Good Day Atlanta viewer information: Feb. 10, 2021
By Good Day Atlanta
The climbers hope the College Park wall will draw new climbers from the local community.
ATLANTA -
Climbers aim to break down barriers by building walls:
Walk into College Park’s Tracey Wyatt Recreation Center, and the new addition is impossible to miss: a big indoor rock climbing wall. But the story behind the new attraction is even bigger than the wall itself.
Professional climbers Kai Lightner and Kevin Jorgenson led the way for the new climbing wall, which officially opened to the public late last month. Lightner is the founder of Climbing for Change, an organization dedicated to making the outdoor industry more diverse and inclusive, and Jorgenson is the founder of 1Climb, which has a mission of introducing 100,000 kids to the sport of climbing. With funding from Adidas, the climbers hope the College Park wall will draw new climbers from the local community especially area youth.
Hobby Farms
The Whole Okra)
The Whole Okra)
In this excerpt from the James Beard-winning book
The Whole Okra, chef and author Chris Smith tells us how he first fell in love with the Southern crop.
7.3K views PHOTO: Neha Deshmukh/Unsplash (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2019).
Chelsea Green Publishing
In 2006, at the tender age of 26 (not yet woody), I experienced okra for the first time. I was at a roadside greasy spoon somewhere east of Clayton, Georgia. It was my first time in the United States, visiting an old friend, Snowy, from Wales. Snowy had been living and working in Greenville, South Carolina, for about five years. Practically a local, he pushed a bowl of fried okra toward me.