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Byline: Mark Woolsey For the AJC It started when an FBI agent came to Goodman Espys south Alabama school. The visitor was recruiting for the bureau. The 16-year-olds imagination was [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey For the AJC Those around Joy Evilsizor marveled at her ability to charm creatures big and small, both of the fourlegged and two-legged varieties. Evilsizor, the former [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey For the AJC The soaring clarinet solo that opens George Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue would waft through the speakers, the short musical clip flowing smoothly into a [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey For the AJC Doing the right thing was crucial for Terry Johnson. Arriving at a course of action guided by his integrity and studying all sides of [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey For the AJC Prominent south DeKalb County businessman and philanthropist Lecester Bill Allen played his cards close to the vest. Outside of a small circle of trusted [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey For the AJC Forty-four years after the fact, Barbara Henry vividly remembers her first meeting with Manning Pattillo. She and her mother were touring prospective colleges and [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey For the AJC Jared Powers could be walking his dog during an evening, puzzling over a budgetary challenge or board-staff relationship at the multimillion-dollar nonprofit he heads. [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey For the AJC REMEMBERING CLYDE REESE The early 2000s were a frustrating time for Howard Holman, the senior vice president of then-Meadows Memorial Medical Center in Vidalia. [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey For the AJC REMEMBERING LOIS CURTIS 1967-2022 Those who knew Lois Curtis best marveled at her luminous, thousand-watt smile. That wide-angle grin was all the more remarkable [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey He spearheaded a key scientific advance credited with saving millions of lives, changed the face of two of Atlantas well known medical institutions, and played pivotal roles [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey REMEMBERING JON KINCAIDJon Kincaids life was buoyed by the interplay of lyrics, melodies and hooks. A deejay on Atlantas rock music and alternative radio scene for decades, [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey REMEMBERING DR. SHERIF ZAKI Dr. Sherif Zaki and his team were working 24-hour days in the fall of 2001, not long after the 9/11 attacks, peering at [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey REMEMBERING ANTONIO FUNDORA Tim Brown had never seen anything like it. The parking lot and nearby streets at the funeral home were packed with visitors for his [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey VETERANS A FAMILY QUEST A welter of emotions tumbled together, packing an emotional punch akin to booming artillery rounds. Powerful and in some ways indescribable, it was [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey Tim Brown had never seen anything like it. The parking lot and nearby streets at the funeral home were packed with visitors for his longtime friend and [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey REMEMBERING MORRIS DILLARD For most people, a trip to Paris would signal a vacation or perhaps a business meeting. For longtime Atlanta community activist and public servant [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey The curtain has come down on the life of a seminal figure in Atlanta theater an old-school Broadway impresario who ended performances with iconic speeches to his [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey It was a departure from Eric and Margaret Kaisers standard Wednesday night routine on Aug. 4. Usually early-to-bed, she stayed up beyond midnight as they held hands [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey Public broadcasting in Georgia is robust in 2021, but it owes that success to a handful of early visionaries who guided its development. Van Joyner was a [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE JAMES PATTERSON Jerry Freeman has vivid memories of the afternoon rehearsal on the Clark Atlanta University campus just over 30 years ago. He was on [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey REMEMBERING RON GRAPEVINE, 72& For Ron Grapevine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race was more than just a sweaty romp from Buckhead to Piedmont Park. Up well [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey They were fellow young attorneys looking to build careers who became fast friends. Then, Clay Long and John Aldridge Sr. started talking about breaking away from comfortable [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey REMEMBERING MARTHA WAYT Tending a garden was a treasured pastime for Martha Wayt as well as a metaphor for how she lived her life, family members said. [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey REMEMBERING TOBE JOHNSON, 91& The class was PSC 253 -Scope and Methods of Political Science. The idea of taking the required course made more than a few [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey AJC REMEMBERS HENRIETTA TURNQUEST& Carl Turnquest recalled a scary day in about 1960. The 12-year-old, his 13-year-old sister Henrietta and a younger sibling, Theresa, set out on [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey REMEMBERING CHARLIE NIYOMKUL& Supichai Charlie Niyomkul developed a passion for the restaurant and hospitality industry early in life that was later equaled by his love of golf. [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey There were the nights he woke up screaming at his Atlanta home. He was skittish around German Shepherds and didnt want to travel by train or subway. [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey AJC REMEMBERS JUDITH COLBS The determined group of protesters that descended on a DeKalb County Cracker Barrel restaurant on Mothers Day in 1992 was mostly young, intense, [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey Journalist Tom Bennett was a talented writer who helped throw sunshine on government public meetings and records across Georgia. Whatever he tackled, from in-depth journalistic projects to [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey Janice Benario squawked loudly as she realized that a cloak-anddagger secret from her past was now on public display. One day in the early 1990s, she was [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey The partnership of Jean and Betty Nunn Mori grew from marriage and raising their family to starting and growing Atlanta-based retailer Mori Luggage & Gifts. Inspired by [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey Colorful elves dash about the screen labeled 'North Pole TV' singing and carrying tools and wrapped boxes. Music plays. A game pops up. Then, time for the [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey Edward Zinn, the son of Atlanta's maven of fresh juices and healthy living Arden Zinn, invoked a phrase with a whiff of being shopworn to describe his [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey Norman Rockwell's 'Freedom From Want' painting -- venerated as an iconic representation of family love and unity at the Thanksgiving/Christmas table -- represents the dominant cultural sensibilities [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey Three turning points steered Ed Mulkey's life toward becoming a go-to guy in Cobb County's banking community. The first was a horrible auto accident. 'When he was [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey Superior Court Judge Horace J. Johnson Jr. wasn't a person who yelled or leaned on his elected position when he wanted to make change happen in his [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey Benjamin Hill's keen eye became the trademark of his professional and personal life. As a pioneer of prosthetic dentistry in Atlanta, he rebuilt smiles so well that [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey He was a warrior for his country, then for God. His first career took Henry Marion Holley around the world as a U.S. Marine. The other evolved [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey Harold Shumacher traveled a circuitous road from high school teacher to a key player in Atlanta's commercial real estate industry. He arrived in 1970 from his Muskegon, [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey Judge Hugh Robinson and his close friend, Marietta attorney Steve Woodman, jokingly called their campaign work in 2008 'trench warfare.' Two days a week for six months, [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey ElaineHowardwasstunned. Opening up the refrigerator in her metro Atlanta home one night in 1956, she discovered something ghastly tucked in next to the baby bottles: a human [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey Emily Powell's life was sprinkled with firsts. The Gwinnett County senior magistrate judge graduated from her father's alma mater, Davidson College, in the first class to include [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey Longtime Southern Baptist journalist Walker Knight was a man who lived his life at the convergence of faith, character and a love of the written word, said [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey Fred Bentley Sr. left footprints across Cobb County The former state legislator had a hand in founding or shaping much of what is now taken for granted: [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey A way to help alleviate some of North Fulton's most notorious traffic backups may be on the horizon. Fulton County Commissioners and a dozen Fulton mayors recently [...]

Byline: Mark Woolsey NORTH FULTON Ga. 400 flex lane signs to get upgrade The Georgia Department of Transportation is looking to improve signage for the Ga. 400 flexible shoulder lanes [...]

Byline: MARK WOOLSEY FORSYTH COUNTY Another massage parlor shuttered Another massage parlor reportedly operating illegally in Forsyth County has been shut down. Sheriff's officials said after Image TLC Massage opened [...]

Byline: Carolyn Cunningham, Mark Woolsey, Bill Banks, Karen Huppertz COBB Free alcohol samples may get bigger Kennesaw alcohol laws may be relaxed in April. A final public hearing will be [...]