The College Town Collection
For alumni, families, and readers who want a favorite college town close.
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Explore Athens, Georgia, through twelve illustrated scenes and short passages made for adults to share with children. Cross from downtown to North Campus, listen for the Chapel Bell, look up at City Hall, follow music and river shade, and add your own Athens memories.
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This Is Athens follows twelve city and college-town scenes made for families, alumni, and longtime locals to share together. The book pairs Athens landmarks with short, memory-minded stories, including City Hall, the Morton Theatre and Hot Corner, and the North Oconee Greenway and Firefly Trail.
Place: Athens, Georgia
Athens City Hall has anchored downtown since 1904. Its clock tower rises above storefront roofs, while the unusual double-barreled cannon nearby gives families another detail to notice. In This Is Athens, the scene shows everyday city life moving beneath a landmark that has watched generations pass. Context: current. In the book: Spread 4 — A clock above downtown.
Opened by Monroe “Pink” Morton in 1910, the Morton Theatre stands within historic Hot Corner, once a center of Black business and professional life in Athens. The book presents it as more than a facade: a place of performance, enterprise, and community memory. Context: historic. In the book: Spread 5 — The stage on Hot Corner.
The North Oconee Greenway and Firefly Trail carry walkers and riders through green corridors, bridges, river shade, and Dudley Park. Because the network can grow and change, the book treats it as a scene of movement rather than a current route guide or access promise. Context: current. In the book: Spread 9 — Along the river.