Friday, June 1, 2018

First Sunday Lecture: Atlanta's Historic Westview Cemetery

First Sunday Lecture
Atlanta's Historic Westview Cemetery

Sunday, June 3, 2018
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Smyrna Library, Meeting Room

Speaker: Jeff Clemmons, Historian and Author of Atlanta's Historic Westview Cemetery and Rich’s: A Southern Institution

Mr. Clemmons will speak on his second book, “Atlanta's Historic Westview Cemetery” which presents the history of the largest non-profit cemetery in the Southeast where more than more than 108,000 interments have taken place since 1884.

Speaker Bio: Jeff Clemmons curates and guides walking tours of Atlanta's Midtown and SoNo districts and Westview Cemetery for the Atlanta Preservation Center. He also serves on the board of the Atlanta Preservation Center's auxiliary group, CIRCA, which offers its members private tours of some of metropolitan Atlanta's most interesting historic structures. Atlanta's Historic Westview Cemetery is Clemmons's second book. All of his research for it is housed at the Atlanta History Center.

The First Sunday Lecture series is sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library and Smyrna Library.

FREE ADMISSION

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