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Yo! Did You Know?! is a travelogue web series that follows, me, Jen Farris, a seasoned Film and TV location scout, into film-friendly communities to reveal history ‘hidden in plain sight’, the artistry of architecture and oftentimes the change makers who made those communities special.
Let’s virtually explore together!
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.
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.
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.
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
engage with Yo! Did You Know?! features and stay in the know for cool, fun, historical tidbits found inside the world of locations. 
