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EDITOR S LETTER
Collin Kelley
collin@atlantamtownpaper.com
Ann Taylor Boutwell:
An Appreciation
As you flip through this issue of INtown,
you’ll find one important component
missing: Ann Taylor Boutwell’s “A Look
Back” column. For the past two decades,
Ann has chronicled Atlanta’s unique,
dramatic, wacky history in her column
- from the railroad spike driven into the
ground that created Terminus, to the Civil
War, to the second “great fire” in 1917, to
the premiere of “Gone With the Wind,” to
the Civil Rights Movement, to the 1996
Summer Olympics. Ann, a former educator,
researched it all and became one of the city’s
keepers of the past. Now, she has decided to
retire to focus on her health and return to
her native Mobile, Ala. INtown will be the
lesser for it.
I believe it was my first day on the
job as editor back in 2002 that I received
a phone call at my desk. “Hi, there... I’m
Ann Boutwell, your historian.” Not long
after that, Ann invited me to a tour of the
Margaret Mitchell House where she worked
as a docent. I soon learned that Ann was
hilarious. Her tour and observations about
the GWTW author were sharp, unexpected and funny. Ann would
go on to appear in the acclaimed PBS documentary, “Margaret
Mitchell: American Rebel.”
She was also a tour guide for the city, meeting busloads of
tourists in Downtown for trips to all of the city’s historic spots,
regaling them with hilarious stories and anecdotes. Something tells
me that Peggy and Ann would have been fast friends.
When I first visited Ann’s apartment in Midtown, I soon
discovered it was a treasure trove of books, ephemera and photos
from Atlanta’s past. She was a big fan and reverential of the city’s
only official historian, the late Franklin Garrett, and strove for
accuracy in her reportage of the past. When Ann discovered that I
had written the very first piece about the
effort to save Margaret Mitchell’s house
- “The Dump” as Mitchell referred to
it - back in the mid-1980s for the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution’s defunct Sunday
magazine, she produced it from her files.
We were fast friends after that. Over
the years, we made trips to my hometown
of Fayetteville for a visit to the old city
cemetery where Mitchell’s ancestors are
buried and a stop at the town library that
the author helped found. There would be
lunches at the Colonnade and Mary Mac’s
Tea Room, movies at the Fox Theatre,
events at the Atlanta History Center and
numerous trips to Oakland Cemetery.
Oakland Cemetery holds a special place
for Ann. INtown used to hold a regular
Halloween event there, and Ann led our
tours. She was a font of knowledge about all
the “residents” at Atlanta’s foremost resting
place. A few years ago, she called me up
and asked if I would go to the cemetery
with her because she had something to
show me.
We parked inside the gate and Ann
led me to a patch of grass in the shadow of
Oakland’s historic Bell Tower. “This is my
final tour stop,” she said proudly. Somehow,
Ann had managed to procure a plot - a
near impossibility at a
cemetery that is the
resting place for
more than 70,000
Atlantans - from Mitchell, to golf great
Bobby Jones to Franklin Garrett. Ann was
giddy that she would be in such grand
company for eternity. Now that’s how
to live!
From all of us at INtown, we will
miss you, Ann. You have been an
integral part of the team and your
contribution cannot be overstated.
Personally, I wish you good health
and more adventures. When you
get back to town, fried chicken at
the Colonnade is on me. ESI
lL
Cameron Adams
AtlantalNtownPaper.com
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