Devon joined Georgia Public Broadcasting in June 2022. She previously worked in Athens as a reporter and producer for WUGA News and Athens News Matters — WUGA’s flagship news show.
Several art exhibitions and Atlanta are grabbing attention at the High Museum of Art, SCAD Fash and the CDC. GPB's Devon Zwald and Kristi York Wooten discuss why they're shows worth seeing.
The one act opera, titled "Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier)," is billed as a dark comedy. The production reflects on an environmental and spiritual retribution around two events in Georgia history: The forced exile of black residents from Forsyth County in 1912, and the decades-later creation of Lake Lanier, a manmade recreational lake in reservoir that covers a large part of North Georgia, including a town at the center of the events in 1912 known as Oscarville.
With strong binoculars or a spotting scope, you can see two roughly 6-week-old raven chicks in the nest. Ravens used to be more abundant in the Eastern U.S., but by the 1930s their numbers had declined, likely from a loss of forested habitat. A wildlife biologistsays the nest at Tallulah Gorge is a good sign for the species.
This spring, as manatees migrate to Georgia and sea turtles spend more time at the water’s surface, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources is asking boaters to be cautious.
