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SUMMER 2021 • VOLUME 20, NUMBER
2 | TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Along the
Backroads: In July
A stillness comes over
mountain
woodlands in midsummer.
BY DANIEL M. ROPER •
NORTHWEST GEORGIA |
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The
Hunger Artist,
Remastered
His resume lists years
he spent in spandex,
crouching in abandoned
movie theaters,
graveyards, lots, and
condemned buildings.
BY DREW TONEY • SOUTH GEORGIA |
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Vanishing
Georgia: Lay-By Time
There is a season to
slow down and reflect on
time's passage.
BY TERRY KAY •
HART COUNTY &
STATEWIDE |
14 |
A Knack for
Picking Winners
Legendary Rich's
department store book
buyer, Faith Brunson,
could choose (and make)
best-selling authors.
BY SIBLEY FLEMING •
FULTON
COUNTY |
20 |
The Ghosts of
Gordon - A Rainy Day
Treasure Hunt, Part II
A 140-year-old photo
album finally comes home.
BY LEE JOYNER •
WILKINSON COUNTY |
23 |
Blazing Skies.
This is Not a Drill.
During the Cold War,
Nike Hercules missiles
protected the state.
BY CLAYTON H. RAMSEY
• ROBINS & TURNER AIR
FORCE BASES |
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Historic Rural
Churches of Georgia:
First Presbyterian,
Darien
This community's roots
date to the time when
Scots Highlanders came
to defend the colony
from Spanish forces.
BY CLAYTON H. RAMSEY,
PHOTOGRAPHY BY WAYNE C.
MOORE •
MCINTOSH COUNTY |
36 |
Mountain
Lightningscape
A midnight camera
captured
nature's most fleeting
show. BY SKIP LOWERY
• UNION COUNTY |
38 |
Readers
Remember: Atlanta
Humane Society
In the late 1940s, the
Atlanta Humane Society
was home to orphan
animals and three lucky
children.
BY LARRY W. LIND •
FULTON COUNTY
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The 1909 Donald
Bain Murder Trial
Seething resentment
provoked a killing,
followed by a trial that
served as a precursor to
the famous Leo Frank
case.
BY W. CLIFFORD
ROBERTS • FULTON
COUNTY
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Only Hard Men
Survived their Enemies
Cruelty and hardship
during the American
Revolution reduced men
to "living on urine and
pumpkins."
BY LEWIS SMITH •
SAVANNAH RIVER
VALLEY
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50 |
The Best News of
His Life
After surviving combat
in one theater of
operations, a young
soldier seemed fated for
deployment to another.
BY JEFF BRYANT •
WALKER 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: Barnesville
to Talbotton
Touring West-Central
Georgia is a scenic,
historic trip through
time.
BY DAVID B. JENKINS •
WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA |
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Dad's
Certificate of
Accomplishment
Family ruptures
sometimes pass to the
third and fourth
generation.
BY WILLIAM C. NOBLE •
DOOLY COUNTY
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Civil War Portrait
The Pattillo brothers
served with the 22nd
Georgia Infantry
Regiment.
BY DAVID W. VAUGHAN •
HENRYCOUNTY
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