Theatre Atlanta's building on West Peachtree was paid for by a single benefactor, Frania Lee, in honor of her daughter Helen Lee Cartledge who died at Orly Field, Paris, along with her husband and 104 other members of the Atlanta Art Association on June 3rd, 1962. Helen Lee Cartledge had been active in Theatre Atlanta since the company was formed in 1957. The book pictured here, Explosion at Orly: The Disaster that Transformed Atlanta, by Ann Uhry Abrams was published in 2002 by Avion Press. There are references to Theatre Atlanta throughout.