“13 Decades Deep: Tone Poem Reflections on the Rose Hill Community and Echoes of Displacement Today”
Last October, our congregation joined Antioch East Baptist Church, the BiRacial History Project, and Candler Park and Edgewood neighbors to raise awareness of the more intimate Black history in our post-Civil War neighborhood. We honored and celebrated the creativity, resilience, and brilliance of Antioch’s and other Black families’ presence on this land they nurtured with fortitude and faith.
Now, one year later, four local White creatives are coming together to reflect upon this revealed history, healing, and justice… each with their own personal probing into the deeper stories and truths that “echo beneath our feet.”
JANET METZGER lives in Decatur where she is an audiobook narrator recording literary fiction, history and political science. She recently retired from over 25 years as an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law teaching courtroom persuasion. She finds peace tending her garden and spinning wool.
Jeff Crompton is a saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer from Atlanta, living in Candler Park. Since retiring from 30 years teaching music in Atlanta area public schools, Jeff has focused on composition and performing his off-center, jazz-based music around the Southeast.
Craig Rafuse is a singer/guitarist and a Candler Park neighbor. He has been performing songs with social significance since 1963, while also playing in dance bands. Craig currently appears with CJ Jones and the Spirit Bones, ExPand Band, Owls and Kahootz.
Edi/th Kelman is a Candler Park neighbor, 17-year Project Manager for the Early Edgewood-Candler Park BiRacial History Project anchored here at the Old Stone Church/First E, and language-channeler for “13 Decades Deep.”
- Facilitator: Libby Ware
- Musician: Craig Rafuse