About Us
Meet our Historians
And learn about our approach to storytelling and history in the videos below.
Lisa Flaherty
Lisa Flaherty is a graduate of Georgia State University’s Masters of Heritage Preservation program with a focus on Public History.
A lifelong story teller and collector of stories, Lisa has been a docent for Dekalb History Center, Delta Flight Museum and The Breman Museum. She has collected oral histories for the archives of the Delta Flight Museum interviewing employees who participated in the evacuation of New Orleans post Hurricane Katrina, and captured stories of early aviation in the South.
Lisa was part of Georgia State’s Special Collection Archives efforts to capture stories of women across Georgia who participated in the Women’s March on Washington D.C. In addition to her training as a historian, Lisa has flown millions of miles for Delta as a flight attendant where she enjoys meeting and learning the stories of others.
Amy Durrell
.Amy Durrell approaches history by looking at the landscape of a place and thinking about what life was like there. She has been thinking about Atlanta’s history since landing a job on the top floor of the iconic Candler Building in 1986, where she had a bird’s eye view to study Atlanta and the people living here. Amy’s interest is Public History and she completed Georgia State University’s Masters of Heritage Preservation program with a focus on stories of Georgia.
Amy has led tours by foot and by bicycle to consider Atlanta stories and explore questions ranging from the role of women in the city to the stories of residential areas. She researches the history of rural schools in Georgia, including oral histories of Black students of the rural schools in Putnam County in the 1940s.
