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THE MAN WITH THE PLAN: Sketch of garden at Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children, designed by Edward L. Daugherty, FASLA. From the Cherokee Garden Library Collection, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center

Next time you’re at the corner of North Avenue and West Peachtree Street, notice the sunlight shining on All Saints Episcopal Church. It’s the red stone edifice on the northwest corner across from the MARTA station. The light isn’t an accident. Landscape architect Edward L. Daugherty put it there in 1977.

Daugherty may not have physically moved photons through space, but his efforts that year kept the church’s neighboring skyscrapers far enough back on their lots to ensure that All Saints would always get sufficient natural light. Both the church and its enclosed gardens reaped the benefits: an island of humanity in a concrete wilderness.

Daugherty occupies a revered position in Atlanta’s architectural ecology. His resume reads like a who’s who, or rather a where’s where of Atlanta institutions: Agnes Scott College, the Governor’s mansion, Clark Atlanta University, the Botanical Gardens, Georgia Tech. An intimate retrospective of his work at the Atlanta History Center details the breadth of Daugherty’s more than 50-year career here. On view through Oct. 10, Edward L. Daugherty, a Southern Landscape Architect: Exploring New Forms provides glimpses of the man and his work through 50 sketches, plans and photographs. (more…)

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1) Little Things Mean a Lot continues at Swan Coach House.

2) True Colors Theatre’s Black Nativity continues at the Rialto Center for the Arts.

3) Norman Rockwell’s Home for the Holidays continues at the Atlanta History Center.

4) Dan Linehan discusses his book, SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History, at Eagle Eye Book Shop.

5) The First Emperor continues at the High Museum.

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1) Jim Henson’s Fantastic World opens at Atlanta History Center.

2) Fringe Factory Explodes the Plastic Inevitable at Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge.

3) TV on the Radio plays the Tabernacle.

4) Atlanta Radio Theatre Company presents H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space at Academy Theatre.

5) Harmony in Life plays Sugarhill.

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1) The Variety Playhouse plays host to She & Him.

2) Author Carmen Deedy and folksinger John McCutcheon are teaming up for a special program at Decatur Library.

3) Celebrate the upcoming Olympics at the Centennial Olympic Games Museum at the Atlanta History Center.

4) Eoin Colfer reads and signs from his new book at the Decatur Library.

5) Mark Knopfler and Jesca Hoop perform at Chastain.

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1) The Color Purple opens at the Fox Theatre.

2) Charles Linton performs at Haze.

3) In the Classical Tradition: Designs by Philip Trammell Shutze is on display at the Atlanta History Center.

4) Joel Restaurant is hosting a French beer dinner.

5) Street Life: American Photographs from the 1960s and ’70s is at the High Museum.

(Text by Darren Benda, photo by Paul Kolnik)

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