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WINTER 2020 • VOLUME 19, NUMBER
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Along the
Backroads:
In February
On a cloudless winter
afternoon, all that keeps a
hiker from walking "into
the blue" is the trail
ahead.
BY DANIEL M. ROPER •
MURRAY & GILMER COUNTIES
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The Renaissance
Good Ol' Boy of BBQ
Myron Mixon's mastery of
the pit opened the door
to so much else.
BY BRUCE HARSHBARGER •
DOOLY COUNTY
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Vanishing
Georgia: The
Family - A Real
Christmas Story
Some families break
under the weight of
prolonged penury; others
thrive.
BY BUCK TAYLOR •
DOUGHERTY COUNTY &
STATEWIDE
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When Minnie Hauk
Came to Town
After anxiously awaiting
the arrival of a
world-famous soprano,
Americus welcomed her
departure.
BY RACHEL CHRISTIAN •
SUMTER
COUNTY
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Celestine
Sibley: A Heavenly
Journalist
"Turned funny" by her
own reckoning, she was
to many the queen of the
AJC news shop.
BY DWAYNE KEITH
PETTY •
FULTON
COUNTY
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The Bequest
Coca-Cola's
highest-ranking African
American executive was
the son of hardworking
sharecroppers.
BY CARL WARE •
COWETA COUNTY
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A Base,
Cowardly, Inhuman Attack
An obscure monument to
General Andrew Jackson's
unfortuante Creek allies
commemorates the
Aumuculle Massacre of
1818.
BY EVAN A. KUNTZLER •
LEE COUNTY
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Historic Rural
Churches of Georgia:
Tilley Bend Baptist
This lovely mountain
church sometimes draws
visitors interested in
the surreal and macabre.
STORY
BY CLAYTON H. RAMSEY,
PHOTOGRAPHY BY TOM REED •
FANNIN COUNTY
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Tallulah Point
Overlook
The move from an iconic
mountain landmark
to a new location required resiliency and
determination.
BY TOM POLAND •
HABERSHAM COUNTY
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A Doctor, His
Enslaved Man and North
Georgia's Union Circle
Following secession,
questions of loyalty
added layers of
complexity for some
southerners.
BY DAVID T. DIXON •
GORDON COUNTY
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Fort Mountain
State Park as You've
Never Experienced It
Rugged trails in this
popular state park lead
to the ruins of
Georgia's
once-thriving
talc-mining industry.
BY SHEPHERD HOWELL •
MURRAY COUNTY
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Still Standing -
Odessadale Elementary
School
A community rallied in
time to save an historic
Rosenwald
school.
BY TONY B. LOWE •
MERIWETHER COUNTY
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The Fort Pulaski
Yankees
In the midst of civil
war, the first-known
photo of a baseball game
was taken in Georgia.
BY JONATHAN SHIPLEY •
CHATHAM COUNTY |
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Soul of a
Southerner
A southerner
fondly writes her
memories of growing up
and living in the South.
BY MARY ANN ANDERSON •
GEORGIA
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Rising from the
Ashes
The historic
Cochran-Davenport
farmstead is a gem
perfectly set in
beautiful Dial Valley.
BY STEVE PROCKO •
FANNIN
COUNTY
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Civil War Portrait
Private Melanethon H.
Cutter served in the 2nd
Infantry Battalion and
left a mark in Macon as
a carpenter and furniture
maker.
BY DAVID W. VAUGHAN •
BIBB COUNTY
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