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SPRING 2023 • VOLUME 22, NUMBER 1| TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Along the Backroads: The Whole Truth
Photographs and words can usually show or speak the truth but seldom tell the whole truth.
BY DANIEL M. ROPER • NORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAINS
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Vanishing Georgia: The Photography of Dororthea Lange
One of America’s great photographers took many unforgettable photos right here in Georgia.
BY DANIEL M. ROPER • STATEWIDE
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The Sardis Iron – Georgia’s Largest Meteorite
Eighty years of scientific examination and analysis have not explained the origin of the state’s largest meteorite.
BY THOMAS THURMAN • JENKINS COUNTY
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A Most Rancorous and Deadly Hate
A widow erected a memorial to her slain husband, beseeching travelers, “Spare this sacred monument, all ye that pass by.”
BY S.T. LANTER • MCINTOSH COUNTY
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Gray Shadows Over Wolfpacks
During World War II, airships from Brunswick’s Glynco Naval Air Station patrolled the Atlantic to counter the threat posed by enemy submarines.
BY KEITH PROPST • GLYNN COUNTY
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This Woman TornWith stubborn, immutable conviction, Marion Toombs Colley cast a vote in 1924 that roiled national politics.

BY MAXIMILLIAN “MAX” LONGLEY • WILKES COUNTY
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An Old Rebel and His Sword
The auction of an antique sword raised questions about Civil War veteran Charles Irvin.
BY DONALD MARTIN • WILKES COUNTY
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Cast Down Your Bucket
In life and in death, Theo Williams faithfully served his family and the Paine Bottom community.
BY EVELYN DAVIS HARMON • MACON COUNTY
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Putting the ‘e’ Back in Metcalfe

A community rallied to preserve an historic town just north of the Florida line.

BY THERESA K. BROWN • THOMAS COUNTY
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Putting the ‘s’ Back in St. Simons

A community rallied in opposition to a federal government decision to change the historic island’s name.

BY STEVE SWAIN • GLYNN COUNTY
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Hunting Memories at Paulks Pasture

Wild game at this hunter’s paradise drew sportsmen like Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth.

BY BILL BAAB • GLYNN COUNTY
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No Noose is Good News

Jasper’s Old Jail Museum is devoted to justice and law enforcement in the mountains a century ago.

BY MARIA BOLING • PICKENS COUNTY
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Teaching One-Hundred Percent Americanism

Lanier University’s run as America’s KKK College was brief and tumultuous.

BY CLAYTON H. RAMSEY • DEKALB 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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Louise the Dynamite Packer

A young bride contributed to the war effort by taking a job at an ammunition plant.

BY JEFF O’BRYANT • WALKER COUNTY
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Tally Boy to a Timber Cruiser

When cottonmouth moccasins ae an occupational hazard, timber cruisers walk softly and carry a big stick.

BY JIM NICHOLS • LOWNDES COUNTY

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Civil War Portrait

Photographer J.A. “Dolph” Pugh, of Macon did a great deal of his work during the Civil War years.

BY DAVID W. VAUGHAN • BIBB COUNTY