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AUTUMN 2018 • VOLUME 17, NUMBER
3 | TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Meeting Wheeler
Crenshaw
A gorge, a gap, a stream
and an old timer's
recollections are
legacies of a
mountaineer.
BY DANIEL M. ROPER •
NORTH GEORGIA
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Boy's
Estate: A Town
Just for Boys
For more than 70 years,
a residential facility
near the coast has
provided a caring,
constructive home for
boys (and now girls) who
otherwise might not have
one.
BY DELEON PEACOCK •
GLYNN & MCINTOSH
COUNTIES
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Vanishing
Georgia: Riding
the School Bus
While waiting
for the school bus in
the Georgia mountains,
students did some
hoping, some praying,
and a bit of
mischief-making.
BY STAN TURNER •
FANNIN COUNTY &
STATEWIDE
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Halloween Horror
on Marietta's Square
Dozens were killed and
injured when an
explosion shattered a
festive autumn evening.
BY SAMUEL L. WEHUNT •
COBB COUNTY
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One Ring,
One Cow, Four
Stomachs, Seven
Years, Nine Miles
For one family, time
and distance anda
grandma's
persistence yielded
that which had been
lost.
BY SAMUEL L. WEHUNT
• COBB COUNTY
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A Bad Night in
Georgia
An unexpected visitor
turned a family's
dinnertime upside down.
BY CHUCK BOWEN
• GRADY COUNTY
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Historic Rural
Churches of
Georgia: Bethany
Presbyterian
Accused of heresy for
his views, a
Presbyterian minister
stood trial in an
ecclesiastical court in
1886.
STORY BY CLAYTON H.
RAMSEY,
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GAIL DES
JARDIN • GREENE COUNTY
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Convergence at
Neels Gap
Many communities are
drawn to the place high
on Blood Mountain where
a busy highway
intersects the legendary
Appalachian Trail.
BY DR. KATHLEEN
THOMPSON • UNION & WHITE
COUNTIES
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Love in Any
Language
A city girl from Romania
who survived the
Holocaust wore a
parachute-silk wedding
dress displayed today at
Atlanta's Breman Museum.
BY DONNA SHRUM •
COBB COUNTY
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It's Been a
Wonderful Life
A country girl from
Georgia wore a wedding
dress made from the silk
parachute that saved the
life of her Army Air
Corps fiance.
BY DONNA SHRUM •
GREENE COUNTY
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Up from Slave
Row: The Making of
Bishop William Henry
Heard
A humble beginning
didn't prevent a bright
young man from rising in
the world of education,
politics, the church and
diplomacy.
BY RAY CHANDLER •
ELBERT COUNTY
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100 Hands Wanted
to Build Gunboats!
Little remains of the
bustling Confederate
Navy shipbuilding yard
once located beside the
Chattahoochee River in
southwest Georgia.
BY JOYCE ANNE KRAMER
• EARLY 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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Genuine Georgia
Backroads: Lookout - A
Mountain Kingdom
With a realm of
interesting things to
see and do, Lookout
Mountain features
outstanding scenic,
recreational and
historic sites.
BY
DAVID B. JENKINS •
DADE, WALKER & CHATTOOGA COUNTIES
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Civil War
Portait
James Smith Allums found
many ways to serve the
Confederate States,
including service in the
armed forces and as a
distiller of alcohol for
medicinal purposes.
BY DAVID W. VAUGHAN •
CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY
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