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“ Discover cool, fun, historical perspectives

 of locations in under :90 seconds! ”

Meet Series Creator, Jen Farris

Hi! I’m Jen, a Georgia Peach from Atlanta USA. For thirty years, I have worked in the entrainment industry, and in that time, for more than a decade, I have worked as a professional film and television location scout. I love exploration and have seen the coolest perspectives of locations from an eagle’s eye-view to under the ground. I’m excited to finally tell the stories of many places I have traveled. Hailing from a lineage of storytellers, writers and historians, it is no surprise that I believe storytelling to be something held in high regard. Building the foundation of stories through location scouting has been invigorating.

Fun Fact

I fell in love with architecture as a teenager, and was so good, my drafting teacher carved my name out of wood as a desk name plate for my future job at an architectural firm. Who knew that after all these years in entertainment, I would find myself back inside of a world of  architecture.

Today’s Episode

Alonzo Franklin Herndon, born into slavery, became one of the first African-American millionaires in the United States. He generated his wealth in Atlanta, GA as a barber, entrepreneur, real estate owner, and businessman founding and presiding over the Atlanta Life, Insurance Company. His mansion, The Herndon Home, was a featured location, in the music video of a famous Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Missy Elliot.

SERIES EPISODES

Herndon Home, Adrienne Herndon

Waluhaje Hotel, Walter 'Chief' Aiken

The Lincoln Country Club

Castleberry Hill, Herman J Russell

Morris Brown College, Dr Cleopas Johnson

Prince Hall Masonic Lodge, WERD Radio

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