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AUTUMN 2019 • VOLUME 18, NUMBER
3 | TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Meeting Place &
Just Beyond the Edge of
the World
There's no rush hour in
the Cohutta Wilderness
Area, but there is
noticeably more foot
traffic and cameraderie
at an important trail
junction.
BY DANIEL M. ROPER •
NORTH GEORGIA
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Vanishing
Georgia: The
Great Floods
Whether by cloudburst,
tropical storm or
relentless rain, rising
water regularly bedevils
the state.
BY DANIEL M. ROPER •
STATEWIDE
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Everything was
Gone
The September Gale of
1804 wrought immense
destruction along
Georgia's seabord.
BY MARSANNE PETTY •
COASTAL GEORGIA
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The Hanging and
Shooting of Henry Worley
While waiting
for the school bus in
the Georgia mountains,
students did some
hoping, some praying,
and a bit of
mischief-making.
BY CLAYTON H. RAMSEY
• GILMER COUNTY
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Historic Rural
Churches of
Georgia: Ridgeway
Baptist
Members of an old
mountain church faithfully
meet in a brick
sanctuary across the
road from the log
building erected more
than 150 years ago.
STORY BY CLAYTON H.
RAMSEY, PHOTOGRAPHY BY
TOM REED • GILMER COUNTY
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An
Unrelenting War on
Football
When a college game
resulted in a
player's death in
1897, his mother
rallied to
football's defense.
BY BRUCE HARSHBARGER
• CLARKE, FULTON AND
FLOYD COUNTIES
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Wings & Roots
Seven decade's differene
brings a grandmother and
granddaughter closer
together.
BY LEAH-JOY SMITH
• FLOYD COUNTY
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On Piste in
Appalachia
Snow-skiing enthusiasts
enjoyed their pastime on
Sky Valley Resorts'
groomed slobes for a
quarter century.
BY BRIAN COOKE • RABUN COUNTY
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Finding Peacock
Alley
With good reason, a
north Georgia mill town
selected an exotic bird
as its emblem.
BY CANDACE DEAL •
WHITFIELD COUNTY
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A Penny on the
Railroad Tracks
The centennial of The
Great Locomotive Chase
inspired a father to
make an unforgettable
mememto.
BY JEFF O'BRYANT •
CATOOSA COUNTY
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Memories of Fort
Barrington on the
Altamaha River
For nearly 80 years, a
family has enjoyed its
hideaway retreat at an
historic site alongside
the state's largest
river.
BY GERRY, MIKE,
PEYTON & CRIS LINGLE •
McINTOSH COUNTY
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It was a
Southern Work!
An entrepreneurial
couple from the North
pioneered the
publication of southern
schoolbooks in Macon.
BY RACHEL CHRISTIAN •
BIBB COUNTY
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Grandad's
Cow-Charming Chevy
Memories of a
rural boyhood include
the hoot of a barred
owl, fishponds smooth as
glass, and an old family
farm vehicle, of sorts.
BY TOM POLAND
• LINCOLN COUNTY
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Bridge Collapse!
Elihu Nelson survived
the Civil War but met
with disaster on a
rickety Euharlee Creek
bridge.
BY BONNE DAVIS CELLA
• BARTOW COUNTY
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Bishop Arthur J.
Moore - Pioneer on the
Frontier of Methodism
A
missionaries life and
work took him from South
Georiga to the Southwest
to many continents.
BY CHUCK BOWEN
• CLINCH 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: Midway to
Darien
With Colonial and
Revolutionary history
galore, the Georgia
coast has a host of things to
see and do.
BY DAVID B. JENKINS •
COASTAL GEORGIA
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Civil War
Portait
Captain Cicero Cyril
Hammock served in the
66th Regiment, Georgia
Volunteere Infantry and
then as Atlanta's mayor.
BY DAVID W. VAUGHAN •
WALTON AND FULTON COUNTIES
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