Rachel Garbus

1 month ago | atlantamagazine.com | Rachel Garbus

Illustration by Marella Moon AlbaneseLolita Griffeth was only saying goodbye for a few days. Her boyfriend really didn’t want her to go. But Griffeth told him she’d been offered a temporary apartment—a pathway out of homelessness, out of the tent she and Cornelius Taylor had been living in on Old Wheat Street in Sweet Auburn. “I told him, ‘Baby, let me go ahead and try to get us a place to live.’” She stops, tears welling in her eyes.

1 month ago | atlantamagazine.com | Rachel Garbus

Photograph by Ben RollinsFamily valuesMy daughter bought a house down here, and it turned out the house behind her house was one of those “make me an offer” kind of situations. So I bought it in 2019. The grandkids come over all the time, but for safety reasons with the pool, they can’t just run over whenever. We had a metal guy build a gate in our shared fence. It looks like a prison gate. I immediately planted a vine on it, so it doesn’t look so prison-y right now.

1 month ago | atlantamagazine.com | Rachel Garbus

Photograph by Kazim Yildirimli / iStock / Getty Images PlusOn a cold night in January, Diane Hughes, a volunteer with the Point-in-Time Count, approaches a young person in tight jeans, smoking a cigarette outside a midtown Publix. “Hi, there,” Hughes begins. “I’m helping conduct a survey about people experiencing homelessness in Atlanta. Do you have a few minutes to answer some questions?” They nod, cautiously.

2 months ago | atlantamagazine.com | Rachel Garbus

Tomasina Ray, RMS Titanic, Inc. president, with a recovered chandelierPhotograph by Martha WilliamsAt first glance, the fluorescent lighting and the long metal shelves look like the interior of any storage warehouse. The white porcelain dinner plates, stacked in neat rows, could be from any restaurant—until one sees the logo stamped in red ink on their faces: White Star Line. These plates spent decades at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Mar 17, 2025 | atlantamagazine.com | Rachel Garbus

March is Women’s History Month, a time when many organizations showcase the diverse contributions women have made to the long march of human progress. What to do, then, if your target audience can’t read, write, or sit still for more than 30 seconds? Such challenges are no impediment for the creative minds behind the Children’s Museum of Atlanta, who specialize in the art of play-based learning for children ages zero to eight.