This site is dedicated to the memory and works of Liam Rattray. We hope this site will transform into a living and breathing community dedicated to the ideals, priorities, and plans seeded by the late Liam Rattray.
Join the Georgia Conservancy and friends for the second annual Liam Rattray Day of Service on May 11, 2013 at the...
Click Here to Read MoreWhen Liam came to visit me when I lived in Boston, he loved to say the names of the streets and neighborhoods. While we biked around the city, he would shout "Boylston!" and "Allston, Boston!"over and over. I keep thinking about his voice, and...
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Save a life - don't drink and Drive.
Plan on a designated driver when you party please or be the driver for others.........................You may save a life being cut short
... Click Here to Read MoreIn 2005 Liam spent about a month as a voluntary worker on my brother and sister-in-law's organic farm in Dorset, England. He visited David and Jyoti and their four daughters again in the spring of 2010. My family and I planted a sweet chestnut...
Click Here to Read MoreEvery so often I would get a chat or call from my husband, Brian, letting me know that Liam was stopping by and/or was already at our place. Since I get home anywhere from 1-2 hours after Brian does many times Liam was gone by the time I got...
Click Here to Read MoreMost of the bus' interiors have now been removed. One item that we couldn't figure out what to do with was his shoes. Liam's family donated all of his clothing that was in good condition, but these shoes were very old....
Click Here to Read MoreI remember what feels like just a few weeks ago that Liam had just fixed up the bus and painted the interior walls – which was the reason he missed coming out to meet us for April's critical mass – and then we went over the next week after he met...
Click Here to Read MoreI was in Delhi when I learned of Liam's passing, and shortly after I retreated to the Himalayas to spend some time by myself. I was having a really hard time mourning outside of community, alone and needing to comfort others and be comforted. ...
Click Here to Read MoreThis excerpt (click to listen) is a clip from the last really big show we had here at the BigHouse. I was recording the bands that night and Liam came over to keep me company, He...
Click Here to Read MoreFour weeks later, a phoenix appears in Little Five Points. Good morning, Atlanta.
Need image #5876221428 from Flickr User 28877233@N03
Posted on the side of the liquor store that shares a parking lot with...
Click Here to Read MoreLiam's lunch lady friend enlarged one of his drawings and wheat-pasted it onto a wall in Little Five Points. Here's a photo of it. Thanks!
Need image #5866439189 from Flickr User 63805012@N03
A few days before Liam took his...
Click Here to Read MoreI was always fiercely jealous of Liam. I would spend hours scanning shelves of Lego sets and pick the best ones, the ones with all the coolest looking pieces. Only to watch my Mum wrap it up and send it overseas for his birthday and not mine. Man...
Click Here to Read More... so we head to the hills... 5 of us guys... no women folks invited... and Liam!!
A rough, tough weekend of manly bonding and belchin'!!
Poker night is the first night... we arrive, unload the car... immediately bemoan the fact...
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the first sighting of the first mushroom on Liams forest resting site
This is a short video clip I took during one of many poker nights at the Mattress Factory (May 13, 2011). When Nathan invites us amateurs over to play poker, he must learn over and over that it is an exercise most comparable to herding cats or...
Click Here to Read MoreLiam was my junior prom date. He wore a wonderful thrift store suit and I dawned a homemade dress. We had been friends only for a month or so at that point but we had a blast together. Dancing and just being goofy. I remember he had just...
Click Here to Read MoreFor many years, awakening the monster was quite the family tradition. For those of you that have received 5:00AM emails from me, you will find it hard to believe that I was not always an early riser... but with kids, this all changes. Liam was...
Click Here to Read MoreLiam borrowed my camera after we flew back from Seattle in February and recorded this video, apparently. I'd never seen it until just now. That's him whistling. I'm not sure where he is, but I remember him mentioning this water phenomenon to me...
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I've known Liam's family since they first came to this country. I meet Ian and Linda when Ian and I worked together at an architectural firm. This was when...
Click Here to Read MoreLiam visited me in Seattle, at my coop, Sherwood, in February. I had to work that week, but even though I couldn't show him around as much as I would have like, Liam would come back to my house with tales of a hacker space and laser-cut stickers...
Click Here to Read MoreThis is a short gchat conversation Liam and I had on May 16, 2011. He was in the final days of finishing his grant proposal with Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and Truly Living Well (TLW) for a project called the "Green Phoenix Initiative...
Click Here to Read Morei met liam at work. my work, not his. I was a bored grocery worker staring off into space when suddenly a man dressed as a carrot came in, dancing and singing with some others. To say it cheered me up does not quite do the moment justice,...
Click Here to Read More( cathuhhrine) wrote, @ 2010-06-27 11:19:00
yesterday
Woke up, supremely disoriented, after coming home from a nearly puke-inducing bike ride during rush hour on Friday afternoon and decided to sleep for...
Click Here to Read MoreToootally linking to Catherine's Flickr for this (sorry Catherine):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28877233@N03/5155477929/in/photostream
This picture is from what may have been the...
Click Here to Read MoreI last saw Liam about a month or so ago when he came by the Decatur Farmers Market. He told me about the mushroom production plans he was working on. I offered to share with him some different mycelium I got from Paul Stamets a few years ago. It...
Click Here to Read MoreWhenever my big cousin Liam came over to visit us here in the UK, I was totally dazzled by him. He'd talk about robots and rockets and actually building them, too, which- even compared to my hand-crafted, three-wheeled Lego bus (with...
Click Here to Read MoreLiam running around the Living Walls conference with his tiny wineglasses and flask of home-made wine.
He offered to drive my cat back from Catherine's place on his motorcycle; I seriously considered it, then thought better on visualizing...
Click Here to Read MoreI do not have a story about Liam, in fact, I did not even know him, but I work with Catherine at CDC. Catherine is such a private person I did not know about Liam until this tragedy happened. She has been kind enough to include me on all the...
Click Here to Read MoreI was lucky enough to meet Liam for the first time almost 7 years ago when he came to work for me at Alon's Bakery in the Highlands. He was the youngest member of my staff at the Cheese counter, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't have my...
Click Here to Read MoreSeveral months ago, my husband and I ran into Catherine and Liam at the Java Monkey. It was a lovely little surprise at the time. We chatted in line, mostly about mushrooms I think. We then went each on our way.
The tiniest of interactions...
Click Here to Read MoreMy girlfriend and I walked with Liam to Rocky Mountain Pizza to get to know each other a bit better after we had just met for the first time at a Georgia Tech event. While at Rocky, we got to talking about some sort of "carbon negative energy...
Click Here to Read MoreI had an unforgettable time with in New Orleans in 2008. He was enthusiatically encouraging us to dumpsterdive and we ended up with a magnificent meal at a house where a couple of friends lived. Unfortunately he did not succeed at pushing his...
Click Here to Read MoreLiam ended up the proud owner of several of my weirder articles of clothing. Everything had fringe. I claim full responsibility for the origin of the Davy Crocket jacket and the two pairs of 'Wülfpack' pants, but Liam is the one who rocked them...
Click Here to Read MoreLiam: "I think we should talk about......guerilla tactics."
Catherine: "Oooorrr shadow puppets!"
Liam: "SHADOW PUPPETS!!!"
This was a verbatum conversation held on an impromtu excursion to the Mattress Factory (wrote it down...
Click Here to Read More2010-07-05 21:14:00
blues and blacks
Unsigned letter in unmistakable handwriting, addressed in one side of the country and postmarked from the other, further complicates life. Welcome back to Atlanta, my...
This was Liam's personal vision, Core Ideology and Envisioned Future.
using image #5807094626 from Flickr user 32762749@N08
Dear family and friends,
As you may know, our son Liam Rattray, was killed by a drunk driver in Little 5 Points, Atlanta, on Monday evening, May 30th.
We are holding a service in his honor at...
Click Here to Read MoreHello, all. Liam's family has asked me to organize a gathering of friends to prepare the trail to Liam's resting place in the forest and to dig Liam's grave.
We will meet tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 7:15AM at the Honey Creek Woodlands...
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