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AUTUMN 2023 • VOLUME 22, NUMBER
3 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Along the
Backroads: Maysville's
Old Mercantile and New
Music
There's plenty of
interesting history and
contemporary
charm in this rustic
northeast Georgia
railroad town.
BY DANIEL M. ROPER •
BANKS & JACKSON COUNTIES |
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Vanishing
Georgia: Our Doctors,
Our Nurses
By furthering the
welfare of his people
and profession, Dr. Lois
Tompkins Wright struck
mighty blows for
humanity.
BY CHARLES E.
FITZ-GERALD •
TROUP COUNTY & STATEWIDE |
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Never to be
Forgotten Crossroads
Ga.
Highway 79 takes the
writer to the place
where family, history,
and nature intersect.
BY TOM POLAND •
LINCOLN & ELBERT
COUNTIES |
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Hero Story
Medal of Honor recipient
Luther Story made it
home for Memorial Day,
73 years after he was
killed in action in
Korea.
BY FRED BOYLES •
SUMTER COUNTY |
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Portrait of a
Woman in Blue
After his wife's tragic
mishap, a sailor in San
Francisco made a frantic
33-day journey by ship,
mule, and train to be at
her side.
BY S.T. LANTER •
GLYNN COUNTY |
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Mountain for
Sale
Preserved more by chance
than design, Pine Log
Mountain's wooded slopes
and numerous historic
sites suddenly face the
possibility of
development.
BY DONNA COFFEY
LITTLE • BARTOW &
CHEROKEE COUNTIES |
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One of God's
Good People
A brother pays tribute
to legendary and beloved
writer Terry Kay.
BY JOHN KAY •
MADISON COUNTY |
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Georgia's Lost
Blue Ridge Parkway
The planned extension of
the
famous mountain highway
deep into Georgia would
have dislocated the
scenic Appalachian
Trail.
BY
ANDREW J. BRAMLETT •
NORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAINS |
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Thwarting a
South Georgia Pigskin
Prophecy
Even before the 1962
state championship
football game, a
Valdosta newspaper
reported that the local
team had thumped its
opponent, 40 to 0.
BY DONALD MARTIN •
LOWNDES COUNTY
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Historic Rural
Churches of Georgia:
Ground Penetrating Radar
Finds Lost Graves
Technology that helps
rsearchers locate lost
graves and burial
grounds is especially
important in reclaiming
the history of the
marginalized.
BY
CLAYTON H. RAMSEY •
GREENE & WILKES COUNTIES |
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Dixie Adair's
Peculiar Birthday
Feeble cries from a
newly dug grave alerted
a passerby that this was
to be a day of birth,
not one of death.
BY DANNY PELFREY •
BARTOW COUNTY
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Adventures in
Retail
Working at Rich's
Department Store in the
1970s and '80s meant
long hours and
opportunities to mingle
with celebrities like
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Bruce Jenner, and the
"General Lee."
BY HOLLEY CALMES •
FULTON COUNTY
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No More Rights
than Lunatics, Felons,
and Traitors
For decades, Mary
Latimer McClendon led
the fight for women's
suffrage in Georgia.
BY CLAYTON H. RAMSEY •
DEKALB COUNTY
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Soul of a
Southerner
A southerner
fondly writes about growing up,
and living, in the South.
BY MARY ANN ANDERSON •
GEORGIA |
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Talking about
Cotton via Rays of
Sunlight
Bell Labs tested a
pioneering solar-powered telephone
system in Sumter County
in 1955.
BY EVAN A. KUTZLER •
SUMTER COUNTY
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Civil War Portrait
Moses Liddell Brown
suffered a severe foot
wound at the Battle of
Manassas in 1861 but
found ways to serve
throughout the Civil
War.
BY DAVID W. VAUGHAN •
DEKALB COUNTY
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