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WINTER 2018 • VOLUME 17, NUMBER
4 | TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Swept into
Eternity
Esther Butler's grave is
the last relic of the
station where
missionaries defied
state law to serve the
Cherokee people.
BY DANIEL M. ROPER •
FLOYD COUNTY
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Vanishing
Georgia: Mealtimes Together
Memories of down-home
cooking include
Detritus, Naked Ladies,
Fig Twigs and Aunt
Tatty's Treats.
BY WENDY HARRISON •
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA &
STATEWIDE
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World War I: A
Tale of Two Georgia
Soldiers
During the Great War,
Georgia soldiers segregated
by race endured the same
hellish conditions.
BY JONATHAN WICKHAM •
FULTON 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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Historic Rural
Churches of
Georgia: The
Blessings of Tin
Whether an old rural
church is still standing
may depend on whether
durable tin covers its
roof.
STORY BY CLAYTON H.
RAMSEY,
PHOTOGRAPHY BY HRCGA
VOLUNTEERS • STATEWIDE
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The
Self-Propelled
Sprinkling Apparatus of
Mae Lamb Road
A roadside relic
inspired a photographer
to delve deeply into the
history of a venerable
irrigation system.
BY KATHLEEN GALVIN •
JEFFERSON COUNTY
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Strolling
Around Spring Bank
The lovely grounds
of a vanished
antebellum mansion
disclose stories of
history and natural
history.
BY DANNY PELFREY
• BARTOW COUNTY
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A Destructive
Conflagration
An effort to prosecute
Ku Klux Klan members for
assault on a freedman
triggered a fiery
response.
BY
TYLER HOLMAN
• GWINNETT COUNTY
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Wrapped Up in
the Arms of the Devil
A killer didn't mince
words of
self-condemnation in his
final statement before
hanging for the death of
"a good old man" in
Clayton County in 1880.
BY EARLENE CAMERON •
CLAYTON COUNTY
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The Angel of
Andersonville
During the Civil War, a
Savannah priest devoted
himself to the service
of prisoners, North and
South.
BY CHUCK LYONS •
SUMTER COUNTY
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The Backroad I
Call Home
A sense of place and
beloved pets define
"home" for one writer.
BY ANABELLE LEE
MACRI •
FANNIN COUNTY
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Genuine Georgia
Backroads: Ludowici's
Legacy
A town's speed trap
became so notorious that
it overshadowed memories
of the lovely and
distinctive product once
manufactured there.
BY
BONNE DAVIS CELLA •
LONG COUNTY
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White Lightning
& Red Clay Memories
A "dear old granddad"
sometimes had his hands
in things that weren't
strictly legal.
BY TOM POLAND
• LINCOLN COUNTY
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Civil War
Portait
First Lieutanant Judson
Council Sapp served in
the "Burke
Sharpshooters," 2nd
Georgia Infantry
Regiment.
BY DAVID W. VAUGHAN •
BURKE COUNTY
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