Summer 2008
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SUMMER, 2008 • VOLUME 7, NUMBER
2 | TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Poole's Mill Covered
Bridge
Everyone loves a covered
bridge (except, it would
seem, thoughtless
vandals).
BY KATIE CALDWELL
• FORSYTH COUNTY
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Georgia's Mysterious
Silver Crosses
Archaeologists,
historians, and
sci-fi buffs have
long debated the
origin of ornate,
silver ornaments
found more than a
century ago in a
north Georgia burial
mound.
BY JIM MILES •
MURRAY COUNTY |
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Georgia's Forgotten Air
War
From the mountains to
the coast, bombers,
fighters, and trainers
filled the skies over
Georgia during WWII.
BY M. L. SHETTLE, JR •
STATEWIDE
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Rebel Lion Redux
With a talent for
oratory and a passion
for politics, Robert
Toombs reached great
heights in government,
yet his weaknesses
prevented him from
achieving the pinnacle
of power.
BY RAY CHANDLER •
WILKES COUNTY |
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Sensational Salamanders
Two biologists who
become lost while
driving in the mountains
find a previously
unknown species of
salamander.
BY DIRK J. STEVENSON •
NORTH GEORGIA |
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Georgia's Little Amazon:
The Wild and Beautiful
Altamaha River
The Altamaha River and
its tributaries have
long carried commercial
and passenger traffic
between the coast and
inland ports, yet this
majestic river remains
superbly untamed and
unspoiled.
BY MARY ANN ANDERSON •
SOUTH GEORGIA |
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Crossing the Altamaha
As the Union army
advanced toward the
coast, with mayhem and
madness swirling about,
a desperate refugee had
to cross the
rain-swollen Altamaha
River.
BY JOSEPH LE CONTE •
LONG COUNTY |
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Big Things Come in Small
Packages
We'll bet most readers
haven't heard of
Tanglewood Miniatures
Farm, but this ranch in
the foothills is home to
some delightful little
critters.
BY CAROL THOMPSON •
CHEROKEE COUNTY |
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Vanishing Georgia:
Tallulah Gorge
For decades, tourists
from around the country
and worldwide came to
see the mighty river
that roared through
Tallulah Gorge's great
chasm.
BY DENISE WEIMER •
HABERSHAM AND RABUN
COUNTIES |
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Poison and the Professor
The Georgia State Crime
Lab traces its origin to
a murder in a small
mountain community in
1941.
BY JAY JARVIS •
HABERSHAM COUNTY |
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Lydia Stone: Queen
of the Okefenokee
With just a cow and a
sow, an exceptional
woman started an empire
worth millions near the
Okefenokee Swamp.
BY ROBERT L. HURST •
BRANTLEY COUNTY
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Genuine Georgia
Backroads:
Bookends of the Civil
War Era
Come on, forget the
Interstate highways!
On your way to the beach
this summer, take a
leisurely drive through
Georgia's countryside
and sample some
interesting history on
the way.
BY LYNNE TAYLOR •
SOUTH GEORGIA
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You Can Go Back
A former employee at
Panola Mountain State
Preserve returns to the
park 30 years later and
reflects on the changes
wrought by time and
progress.
BY ANN FOSKEY •
ROCKDALE COUNTY
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