Loridans Park is Livable Buckhead’s current major initiative. The site includes the former D.F. McClatchey Elementary School and the Lowery-Stevens Cemetery. The cemetery, in particular, lends itself to the installation of the proposed “Ghosts of History” interpretive public art.
A possible narrative at the future Loridans Park could be the ‘Ghosts of History’ interpretive public art installation, one of several concepts proposed by the Buckhead Heritage Society.
The installations are among a number of concepts proposed by the Buckhead Heritage Society. The “Ghosts” project could be figures of Civil War soldiers, cut from metal; photos from long ago etched into a clear plate, so viewers would see a “then and now” effect; or figures from a number of eras, also cut from metal.
Park Pride selected the site for its 2018 visioning program and on June 12, 2018 held the first of three planned meetings to gather public comment. Additional meetings were held on July 12 and Sept. 11. Two concepts from the visioning process emerged, with the final concept to be decided from public input.
The five-acre site in north Buckhead has taken big strides toward becoming the next thriving park along PATH400. A community-led visioning process has concluded, an archaeological survey of a historic cemetery on the site is complete, and volunteers have been making great strides in clearing the site of debris and invasive plants.
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