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Susan Kessler Barnard, an Atlanta native, is a mother of three sons, a grandmother and a great-grandmother. She has been a longtime community activist particularly in the field of developmentally disabled children. Because of her son, Christopher, she and other parents established Arbor Academy, Inc., the Havanah Sunday school program and The Atlanta Group Home, Inc. In 1983 she received the Atlanta Association for Retarded Citizen’s Mary Lee Brookshire Award for her work. Dreams is Ms. Barnard’s fourth book: This is the Church Being the Church, a History of Atlanta’s First Presbyterian Church, was written with Dr. Harry A. Fifield. Buckhead: A Place for All Time and Arcadia’s Images of America: Buckhead are histories of Atlanta’s Buckhead community. She has also been a columnist for several local newspapers. She and Grace M. Schwartzman have articles on the Creek (Muscogee) Indians in the University of Georgia’s The Georgia Historical Quarterly. Ms. Barnard was a surgical assistant and then a library assistant at the Atlanta History Center. She is on the board of the Buckhead Library, is a member of the Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society and The Atlanta History Center. She attends and teaches courses at Emory University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) and she is a docent at The Breman Jewish Heritage Museum’s Holocaust exhibit.