Historian, 4th Generation Atlantan to Blog for Cascade Patch

Leslye Joy Allen a fourth generation native of Atlanta, will begin blogging for Cascade Patch later this month.

A historian and educator, Allen holds Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in History from Agnes Scott College and Georgia State University, respectively.

She is also a charter member of Agnes Scott College’s Alpha-Theta-Psi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society and is a former Coca-Cola Foundation Museum Fellow at the Atlanta History Center.

She currently is a doctoral student in the History department at Georgia State University. She specializes in twentieth century Georgia History, Atlanta History, and Performance Arts History.

Known by her close friends as “Joy,” she is a lifelong patron of the performance arts (particularly theatre) and is an arts and history education advocate with over twenty years experience working with national and local organizations engaged in technological, financial, museum, and educational fields.

Joy, who lives in southwest Atlanta and grew up in the Adamsville/Collier Heights area, has a lot of opinions and will be blogging about many things, but often with a specific focus on history and the arts.

Long-time residents of southwest Atlanta may remember Allen's mother, Mrs. Syble Allen (now Williams), a kindergarten teacher at West Manor Elementary during the 1970s.