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WINTER 2016 • VOLUME 15, NUMBER
4 | TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Vanishing
Georgia - The Old Jalopy
When your 1936 Chevy
can't turn right,
driving the old mountain
roads from Clayton to
Norcross takes guts.
BY JACK V. AYERS •
NORTHEAST GEORGIA &
STATEWIDE
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A Toxteth
Lament: The
Tragedy of Mary
Elizabeth Low
Determined to learn the
fate of her husband
after the sinking of the
CSS Alabama, a
Savannah woman mader a
hazardous wartime
journey to England.
BY JOHN HUSSEY •
SAVANNAH & ENGLAND
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White Sheets in
Black Shirts - The
Fascist Movement in
1930s Georgia
As the Ku Klux Klan
dwindled in the late
1920s, a new movement
resembling European
fascism briefly gained
momentum in Georgia.
BY WILLIAM RAWLINGS •
STATEWIDE
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Historic
Rural Churches of
Georgia - Jerusalem
Lutheran: A
Salzburger in
Georgia
Fleeing
religious
intolerance and
persecution, Peter
Gruber left the
highlands of
post-Reformation
Europe for the
freedoms of colonial
Georgia.
STORY BY
CLAYTON H. RAMSEY,
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN
KIRKLAND • EMMANUEL
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Abandoned Rural
Georgia: The Art
of Peter Muzyka
A Madison artist has an
eye for our vanishing
rural landscapes.
BY HANK SEGARS •
MORGAN COUNTY |
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What's in a
Name?
Industrialist Henry Ford
cultivated progress and
opportunity when he
established Richmond
Hill.
BY ROBERT LATIMER
HURST • BRYAN COUNTY
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Thanksgiving Day
Football Memories in
Savannah.
There was a time when Thanksgiving in
Savannah revolved around
high school football.
BY RACHEL M. BREWTON
• CHATHAM COUNTY
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Civil War
Portrait
An unidentified Georgia
Military Institute
officer.
FROM THE DAVID W.
VAUGHAN COLLECTION
• COBB COUNTY
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Ben Dewberry's
Final Run
A youngster anxious to
see what a train wreck
looked like settled the
fate of a famous
railroad engineer.
BY REBECCA BRADSHAW
• GWINNETT COUNTY
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Sheep Rather
than Scythes and Mowers
Trendy and tony Druid
Hills Golf Course had a
humble - and sometimes
tumultuous - beginning.
BY MARCIA MAYO •
DEKALB COUNTY
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An Aptitude for
Distilling Almost
Anything
Old World determination
and New World ingenuity
enabled a
wiregrass-region family
to thrive.
BY MICHAEL H.
McDOUGALD •
BULLOCH COUNTY
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Uncle Buddy and
the Lewner Post Office
A
determined pioneer
managed to get an
oddly-named post office
for his highland
community.
BY STAN TURNER •
UNION COUNTY
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Beech Bottom for
the Price of a Big Rifle
Many 19th
century hunters had at
hand the means to
acquire a large tract of
bottomland in what
eventually became
Georgia's Cohutta
Wilderness Area.
BY SHEPHERD L. HOWELL •
FANNIN COUNTY
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Soul of a
Southerner
A
Georgian fondly
remembers growing up an
dliving in the South.
BY MARY ANN ANDERSON
• STATEWIDE
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Genuine Georgia
Backroads: Places that
Changed the World
Amid the tumult of the
recent presidential
election, a traveler
took pleasure in
visiting Plains and Warm
Springs, places tied to
two 20th century
presidents.
BY SKIP LOWERY •
MERIWETHER & SUMTER
COUNTIES
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They Tried to
Bring out the Best in Us
A community moved
swiftly to save the
Harrington schoolhouse,
a St. Simons Island
landmark.
BY MARCIA MAGUIRE •
GLYNN COUNTY
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