Autumn 2024

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AUTUMN 2024 • VOLUME 23, NUMBER 3 • TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Along the Backroads: A Diminishment in Peters Woods
Richard Peters wouldn’t recognize the vast farm where he engaged in detailed and productive agricultural experimentation in the late 1800s.
BY DANIEL M. ROPER • GORDON COUNTY
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Going on the Wagon
Those who wished to keep Elbert dry had all the momentum until election eve.
BY RAY CHANDLER • ELBERT COUNTY
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Kennesaw Mountain Almost Became a Cold War Bunker
In the 1950s, the National Park Service battled the Air Force over plans to build a massive command bunker deep beneath Kennesaw Mountain.
BY ANDREW J. BRAMLETT • COBB COUNTY
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New Family, New Name, New Life, Three Wives
Fleeing from Tennessee to Georgia in 1860, prominent Baptist preacher William R. Flinn became William Arflin.
BY BOB & AMY MOON • BANKS COUNTY
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Memories & Mementos
Mementos passed down a century after a grandmother’s death revealed a great deal to her granddaughter.
BY DR. ELIZABETH HOOLE MCARTHUR • CLAY COUNTY
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“My Dear Mr. Carnegie”One of the first free public libraries in Georgia – and the South – came through the work of a woman with ties to industrialist Andew Carnegie.

BY RAY CHANDLER • ELBERT COUNTY
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Almost as Old as the United States
Brunswick’s Glynn Academy is one of two active Georgia schools older than our nation’s constitution.
BY MASON STEWART • GLYNN COUNTY
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Historic Rural Churches of Georgia: Ezekiel Congregational Methodist
In 1856, a Georgian established a splinter-denomination from mainline Methodism.
BY CLAYTON H. RAMSEY & KELLY GOMEZ • WARE COUNTY
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An Oasis of Sanity
Georgia Tech’s Alexander Memorial Coliseum gives students a welcome break from rigorous classwork.
BY KEITH PROPST • FULTON COUNTY
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The Homeplace
An early 1800s mountain house echoes even today with the sound of running feet, laughing children, crying babies, and rocking chairs.
BY DEBBIE WILSON • MURRAY COUNTY
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Georgia was Never on My Mind

Moving in mysterious ways, providence led a Detroit-area family to rural Georgia.

BY DEBBIE GLADDEN • FLOYD COUNTY
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500 Pounds of Cotton

With a mortgage due and the crop meager, prayer and backbreaking labor were the only hope.

BY DARRELL BLACK • BARTOW COUNTY
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Love Bears All Things

A young couple came together despite religious differnces, war, and monetary problems.

BY S.T. LANTER • GLYNN COUNTY
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Genuine Georgia Backroads: Over the Roof of Georgia

The northeast Georgia mountains are lovely year-round, but autumn is special.

BY DAVID J. JENKINS • NORTHEAST GEORGIA
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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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When Books Open, the World Changes

Savannah’s Colored Carnegie Library has served its community since 1914.

BY CLAYTON H. RAMSEY • CHATHAM COUNTY
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Civil War Portrait

From a distinguished Athens family, Captain Howell Cobb Jr. served on the staff of his father, General Howell Cobb.

BY DAVID W. VAUGHAN • CLARKE COUNTY