By ELLEN CREAGER
Detroit Free Press
ATLANTA | In one of the nation’s most popular cities for black family reunions, Alicia Evans made a decision.
No pre-planned tours. Let everyone explore the city on his or her own.
“I was thinking of setting up a tour for anyone who wanted to go to the aquarium or Martin Luther King memorial or the Coca-Cola museum, but people seemed to want to all do different things,” says Evans, a Queens, N.Y., native whose Evans-Griffin reunion was held July 11-13, drawing 35 people.
Actions in two courtrooms soon could determine metro Atlanta’s ability to control its future water supply as well as its hold over the water it already has.
The outcome is as uncertain as it is important.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide this fall whether to take a petition filed by Georgia, which could validate an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assuring this region’s access to water for 20 years.