Spring 2009
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SPRING, 2009 • VOLUME 8, NUMBER
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Gatrell's Georgians:
Nathan Bedford Forrest's
Teenaged Warriors
After legendary
Confederate cavalry
commander Nathan Bedford
Forrest saved Rome from
Yankee raiders during
the Civil War, young
volunteers from that
town pledged their
loyalty and lives in
service to "that devil
Forrest."
BY ZACK C. WATERS •
FLOYD COUNTY |
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Vanishing Georgia:
Small Town Life -
Living, Laughing,
Loving in Old
Lathemtown
In busy and
burgeoning Cherokee
County today it is
hard to believe just
a generation ago
this was a quiet and
decidedly rural
community of dirt
roads, cotton gins,
pot-bellied stoves,
and mule barns.
BY MARY HELEN
CISSELL •
CHEROKEE COUNTY |
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Genuine Georgia
Backroads: Thomasville -
City of Roses
The mention of
springtime in Georgia
evokes images of
flowering dogwood,
graceful wisteria, and
colorful azalea.
Take a spring trip to
Thomasville, though, and
you'll add the elegant
and vibrant rose to your
list of floral
favorites.
BY LYNNE TAYLOR •
THOMAS COUNTY
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Commander of the Forest
Biologists studying the
elegant and endangered
indigo snake are
learning that this
sizable, wide-ranging,
fascinating serpent
truly is the "commander
of the forest."
BY DIRK J. STEVENSON
• SOUTH GEORGIA |
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Festival Fiesta!
You mean you've
never been to Royston's
Fancy Feather Festival,
Ashburn's Fire Ant
Festival, or Warwick's
National Grits Festival?
Come on then, it's time
to get out and sample
some uniquely Georgia
celebrations!
BY MARY ANN ANDERSON
• STATEWIDE |
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Courage Worthy of a
Honorable Cause
When armies clashed near
Dallas during the civil
war, a serene backwoods
farm and gristmill
became a nightmare
landscape thereafter
known as The Hell Hole.
BY MARION BLACKWELL,
JR. • PAULDING COUNTY |
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The Sky is Falling!
Multiple occurrences
over many years of odd
objects falling from the
Georgia sky might
persuade you that
Chicken Little was
absolutely right.
BY JIM MILES •
STATEWIDE |
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Bill Arp's Uncivil War
With a sharp eye, keen
wit, and caustic pen,
Charles Henry Smith
a/k/a Bill Arp became
the voice of the
southern people in the
second half of the 19th
Century.
BY MARY FRAZIER LONG
• GWINNETT,
FLOYD, AND BARTOW
COUNTIES |
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Rebuilding
Auchumpkee Creek
Covered Bridge
When Tropical Storm
Alberto destroyed a
historic covered
bridge in 1994, the
community rallied to
see that the
structure was
rebuilt.
BY AUBREY HAMMACK •
UPSON COUNTY |
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The Great Yazoo Fraud
A decade after the
American Revolution, the
lure of Georgia's
western lands led to
wild speculation and
wide-spread corruption
that brought down
wealthy and powerful men
in both the Georgia and
national capitols.
BY WILLIAM RAWLINGS •
JEFFERSON COUNTY |
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