Georgia history, scenic attractions and Southern lifestyles

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Georgia Backroads YouTube videos tell stories from the back roads about Georgia history, natural history, places of signficance and travel destinations. We sometimes delve into things behind the scenes, as we develop new issues or consider and build on matters from old ones. Choose a video or two.  We hope you enjoy our YouTube content:

1. Intersection - One Red Maple Tree
 on Taylors Ridge, Chattooga County
2. Murmurings and Pestilence
Rocky Face Ridge


3. The End of Putnam
Marion County
4. The Fate of Rasho Crane
Andersonville Prison
5. Choosing a Georgia Backroads Cover
Spring 2023 Issue
6. Winter Rain on Wolf Ridge
Big Frog Wilderness Area
 
7. They Aren't Trail Trees!
Those bent trees in Georgia's woods.
8. A Rebel's Charge at Chickamauga
An Alabama lieutenant remembers.
9. Sing Highway 156
As you weave through countryside.


10. Aaron Burr Never Slept Here
Why Warthen's historic markers are wrong.
11. He was Ours and We Lost Him
Brunswick buddies reunited on Iwo Jima.
12. Bushwhacking the Anomaly
Searching for a mountain map peculiarity.
13. Sulphur on Fire Pink
Words may be worth a thousand pictures.


14. The Ruin of Estelle
Where was this 1908 photo taken?

15. Disperse, Ye Rebels!
Why did Loyalists oppose independence?
16. The Truth
Georgia mountain photos may tell the truth.
17. The Whole Truth
Sometimes photos tell the whole truth.
18. Nothing But The Truth
But photos seldom tell nothing but the truth.
19. Finding the Right Cover Photo
Choosing a cover photo can be complicated.

20. Only the Dead Can Speak
With Tongues of Fire (General Lytle)
21. Creation Song of William Bartram
An explorer's hymn of praise to the Almighty
22. Climbing the Famed Frog
Exploring the Cohutta's highest peak.
23. My Favorite Tombstone
Is in a remote mountain graveyard.
24. Only the Dead Can Speak
With Tongues of Fire (Srgt. Kirkland)


25. Young Woman at the Piano
Creators share something in common.


26. Top Ten Novels About Georgia
Our picks for the ten best Georgia novels.
27. Louisville's Old Market Imperiled
Its saving requires knowledge of our history.
28. My Most Frightening Georgia Hike
The startling events of August 20, 2022.
29. Easy Season
Summer on the South Fork of the Jacks.
30. Ghosts of Old Greene County
FSA photography fromt the '30s and '40s.


31. October Saturday on Jacks River
When the river is at its colorful best.
32. An Appalachian Trail Song
Gary Barton's melodic tribute to the AT.
33. Georgia's Lost Appalachian Trail
Old southern terminus at Mt. Oglethorpe.
34. Driftwood Beach on Jekyll Island
Photographers love shooting foaming surf.
35. The Heroes of Keown Falls
Disabled students do the impossible.

36. Winter Solstice Lamentation
Autumn's last day brings memories of days past.


37. Ten Georgia Trees You can
Identify Even in Winter

38. Searching for Beulah Buchanan
What caused the death of this 12-year-old girl?