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SUMMER 2024 • VOLUME 23, NUMBER
2 • TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Along the
Backroads: Sunrise at
Watson Mill Covered
Bridge
This state park is a
refuge for those wishing
to escape
urban and interstate
pandemonium.
BY DANIEL M. ROPER •
MADISON & OGLETHORPE
COUNTIES |
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Vanishing
Georgia: The Habersham
County Photos of R.A.
Romanes
Family photos from the
1930s led the writer to
the remarkable work of a
prolific immigrant
photographer.
BY EVELYN DAVIS HARMON •
NORTHEAST GEORGIA |
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Mirages of
Colonial Spain
Ruins of Spanish
missions became state
parks in the 1930s, but
questions then arose about
their authenticity.
BY ANDREW J.
BRAMLETT • SOUTHEAST
GEORGIA |
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Hijacked History
Finding a photo from the Georgia
mountains on the
cover of Hillbilly
Elegy, a famous
book set in Kentucky,
the writer looked into
the photo's back story,
which led him to the
rich history of a
mountain family.
BY STEVE PROCKO •
FANNIN & GILMER COUNTIES |
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Breaking the
Magician's Code
The son of a prominent
Georgia magician
discretely reveals a few
family secrets.
BY DONALD MARTIN •
ATLANTA |
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The Altamaha-Ha
The writer is one of
many who have
encountered a
mysterious cryptid river
creature seen many times
over
two centuries.
BY MARY ANN ANDERSON
• SOUTHEAST GEORGIA |
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Augusta Powder
Works - Bulwark of the
Confederacy
George Washington
Rains's briliance
provided the Cofnederacy
with vital munitions to
fight a long war.
BY CLAYTON H. RAMSEY •
RICHMOND COUNTY |
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Rampage of the Berrien
Tiger
Hamp Guthrie got into a
tousle with a big cat
and carried a reminder
of it
for the rest of his
days.
BY ROBERT D. HERNDON •
BERRIEN & LANIER
COUNTIES |
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Historic Rural
Churches of Georgia:
Talbot County Methodists
A few of the faithful
established Methodism in
Talbot County long ago.
A few stalwarts keep it
going today.
BY CLAYTON H. RAMSEY •
TALBOT COUNTY |
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We are Rising!
Richard Robert Wright
spoke prophetically when
he announced in 1863
that he and his race
would flourish.
BY
DR. ELIZABETH H.
MCARTHUR • WHITFIELD,
FULTON & RANDOLPH
COUNTIES |
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Untoward &
Potentially Scandalous
Surprising DNA test
results helped unravel a
family mystery dating to
1879.
BY CORRIE
BRYANT-HABIB •
GORDON & PICKENS
COUNTIES
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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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To Touch the
Hearts of a Great Many
People
President Roosevelt's
death raised
questions about what to do
with his Little White
House in Warm Springs.
BY G. JUDSON SMITH •
MERIWETHER COUNTY
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When Life Hands
You Oranges
One of the hottest new
agribusiness ventures in
the state is citrus, of
all things.
BY BRYAN MIMS •
THOMAS COUNTY
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An Indifferent
Passenger
A pilot's long and
eventful flight to
Georgia became more
memorable when he picked
up a passenger in West
Virginia.
BY MELVIN ALRED •
FLOYD COUNTY
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Civil War Portrait
Private Elijah L.
Anderson joined "Joe
Brown's Pets" to try to
stop Sherman's advancing
army.
BY DAVID W. VAUGHAN •
GWINNETT COUNTY
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