Commentary
When I lived and worked in Atlanta, for two years I went downtown to study in the Atlanta-Fulton Central Library. It had in its collections some materials I needed for a book I was writing about the 1906 Atlanta riots. I had to go there to see them, but if the materials weren’t housed inside, I would never have gone back after my first visit. As you see from the photo linked to above, the architecture of the building is precisely the opposite of the kind of spaces and materials that encourage and reinforce curiosity about the past.
