EDUCATION
Summer Camp
We had another successful APC summer camp with the wonderful children from City of Refuge. Our camp is based out of the LP Grant Mansion, where we learned all about the importance of history and historic preservation through hands-on activities and by visiting important places and historic spaces around Atlanta.
We visited Zoo Atlanta, Madame CJ Walker museum, the Center for Puppetry Arts, and the Atlanta History Center.
Learning about historic preservation hopefully will encourage these children to think about our impact on our environment, reusing existing buildings, which conserves resources and minimizes our environmental impact, as well as a respect for the people and places that came before us. We hope our camp empowers them to become future stewards of our city's heritage.
Thank you so much to our generous sponsors and volunteers for making it possible for us to offer this camp free of charge to these children. Without our APC Members, this would not be possible. Thank you!
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Some of the amazing places the children experienced this year:
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Zoo Atlanta
Zoo Atlanta — a nationally recognized animal habitat — Zoo Atlanta can be traced to its beginning as the Grant Park Zoo, established in 1889 from the remnants of a traveling circus.
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Center for Puppetry Arts
Since 1978, the Center has introduced millions of visitors to the wonder and art of puppetry through performances, workshops, and the hands-on Museum.
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Atlanta History Center
The Atlanta Historical Society was founded in 1926 to preserve and study Atlanta history. After decades of collecting, researching, and publishing information about Atlanta and the surrounding area, the organization officially became Atlanta History Center.
Some of our Past Summer Camp Excursions:
We visited the Madame C.J. Walker Museum and learned about America’s first female self-made millionaire and African American philanthropist. The museum is also home to WERD studio, the first black-owned radio station in America.
The children danced to old vinyl records and got to meet and sing “Celebrate” with Chicago Mike, a member of Kool and the Gang! Thank you Ricci and Biondi de Forest for a memorable morning.
We visited the Wrens Nest, Atlanta’s oldest house museum. After listening to a wonderful storyteller we toured the house. The Wrens Nest, who participated in the Mayor’s Summer Reading Club gave each child a beautiful book.
We spent one morning visiting Atlanta’s oldest movie theater, the Plaza, in operation since 1939 and got a behind-the-scenes look at how a movie theater works. We also saw how a concession stand works and sampled some popcorn!
Thank you so much to Chris and Nicole Escobar and the wonderful team at the Plaza Theatre for an unforgettable experience.
Visiting the Plaza Theatre the children had a lesson on film and watched clips of a 1961 Yogi Bear cartoon. They also watched silent films accompanied on the organ by the amazing Ken Double who plays the organ at the Fox Theatre. A big thank you to the Plaza Theatre.
