Summer 2010
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SUMMER 2010 • VOLUME 9, NUMBER
2 • TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Cutting Him Down
to Size: The
Cone-Stephens Fued
When two distinguished
ante bellum
politicans exchange
heated words, a
fierce altercation
ensues.
BY MARK SCROGGINS •
GREENE AND DEKALB
COUNTIES |
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Julia Force
- Victorian
Murderess
When years of
seething, venemous
resentment culminate
in a murderous
rampage, the
perpetrator ends up
in the Georgia State
Sanitarium in
Milledgeville ...
with a surprising
twist at the end of
her life.
BY GAYNIE G. GUY &
HUGH HARRINGTON •
BALDWIN COUNTY |
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Works of the
Devil & Acts of the
Angels: A History
of Georgia's Infamous
Lunatic Asylum
Though often the target
of jokes, Central State
Hospital in
Milledgeville has a
long, distinguished, and
sometimes notorious
reputation for treating
those with afflictions
once considered "works
of the devil."
BY ERIN CATERHINE
GISH •
BALDWIN COUNTY |
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Madeira:
The Spirit of Georgia's
Colonial and Plantation
Coast
With the flicker of
lightning providing the
only illumination,
determined Confederate
sailors board and
commandeer the United
States Navy's only
side-wheel steamer
man-of-war.
BY RAY CROOK •
COASTAL GEORGIA |
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Sunflower Farm
Festival takes Visitors
back in Time
Every Fourth of July,
the descendants of a
Rutledge farm family
celebrate their rich
heritage by holding a
fun and colorful
celebration open to the
public.
BY KIM DUKES •
MORGAN COUNTY |
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The Drowning
Bear Mysteries
A 170-year-old
government document
offers an intriguing
glimpse into the
life of a prominent
Creek Indian who
lived on Sweetwater
Creek, and prompts
bafling questions
about his fate.
BY MARION BLACKWELL,
JR. • DOUGLAS COUNTY |
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Just Across the
State Line: The
Bascom Gallery
Don't miss this
world-class, elegant art
gallery that recently
opened just across the
state line in Highlands,
North Carolina.
BY MARY ANN ANDERSON •
NORTH CAROLINA |
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Vanishing
Georgia: Small
Town Life - Homer
Life in a country
crossroads town in
northeast Georgia in the
1920s and '30s meant
simple pleasures and
good times mixed with
hardship and the despair
of the Great Depression.
BY WALLACE VAUGHAN •
BANKS COUNTY |
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Ruby's Boys &
Mamie Lee at the Piano
The
author's recent recovery
of piano recordings made
in the 1940s evokes
memories of a childhood
that ranged from
climbing atop the family
upright to the discovery
that "girls are shaped
funny for a reason."
BY MURRAY TILLMAN•
DOUGHERTY AND MUSCOGEE
COUNTIES |
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On to a Better
Place - The Life and
Times of Alton Stitcher
After
achieving a measure of
celebrity as a radio
pioneer in Carrollton in
the 1940s, Alton
Stitcher experiences a
surprising period of
rediscovery and acclaim
50 years later.
BY RICK MEHAFFEY•
CARROLL COUNTY |
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Genuine Georgia
Backroads - Southwest
Borderlands
If you
really need a break from
noise, congestion, and
bland modern
steel-and-glass
structures, mosey on
down to the southwest
Georgia border where
history, rustic
buildings, and a
welcoming populace are
found in abundance.
BY LYNNE TAYLOR
• SOUTHWEST
GEORGIA |
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