Atlanta’s History To Unfold In 50 Found Treasures, Trinkets

Don Rooney, director of exhibitions, at the Atlanta History Center.

Bess Meade / Atlanta History Center

If you had to select an object that best represents Atlanta, what would you choose? 

Give it some thought because the Atlanta History Center is collecting ideas for an upcoming exhibit called, “Atlanta in 50 Objects.” 

Recently, Don Rooney, head of exhibitions at the History Center, spoke with WABE’s Steve Goss about the project.

To hear about what some of your ideas were, reporter Tasnim Shamma stopped commuters outside the Lindbergh MARTA Station on what events, objects and places they felt best represented the city of Atlanta.