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Tom Key A Spiritual Connection

ONE OF TOM KEY’S EARLIEST MEMORIES OF VISITING Atlanta is of attending Georgia Tech football games with his father and brother. He recalls driving from the family home in Birmingham, Ala., and watching the Atlanta skyline expand as the car journeyed uphill. He dreamed of living in the bustling city to be part of its cultural scene, and because he saw the city’s response to the Civil Rights movement yielding a better result than Birmingham’s.

Years later, he and his wife, Beverly, moved to the city for its budding film industry and scrappy theatre community. He appeared on the TV show and performed

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