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Current Issue
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 Autumn
2023
• Dr. Louis Tompkins
Wright "strikes might blows
for humanity"
• Vanishing
Georgia: Our Doctors, Our
Nurses
• Ga. Highway 79 Crossroads
in Lincoln and Elbert
counties
• Portrait of a
Woman in Blue
• Pinelog
Mountain for Sale!
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John Kay remembers his
brother, novelist Terry Kay
• Mary
Ann Anderson's "Soul of a
Southerner"
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Georgia's Lost Blue Ridge
Parkway
• Using Ground-Penetrating
Radar to Find Lost Graves
• Dixie Adair's Peculiar
Birthday
• Mary Latimer McClendon Led
Georgia's Suffrage Movement
• Thwarting a South Georgia
Pigskin Prophecy
• Maysville - Old Mercantile
& New Music
• Civil War
Portrait |
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Recent Issues
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 Summer
2023
• Catface Fever
• Our Men, Our Fathers
• Beatlemania in Georgia!
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Primitive Baptists
• Two Men Named Billy
• Macon vs. Cincinnati
• Civil War Portrait
• Soul of a Southerner |
 Spring
2023
• Largest Meteorite
• Dorothea Lange Photos
• Darien Stage Road Murder
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Wolfpacks and Blimps
• Putting the 's' in St.
Simons
• Jasper's Old Jail Museum
• Paulks Pasture
• Soul of a Southerner |
 Winter
2022
• Lewis Grizzard
• Georgia Streetcars
• General Alfred H. Colquitt
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Benteen Rode with Custer
• Camp Meetings
• The Cost of Living Free
• Scull Shoals; Mosquito
Xing
• Soul of a Southerner |
 Autumn
2022
• Oscar Wilde in Georgia
• Georgia Sailors
• Tech's Ramblin' Wreck
• Uga
Dawgs
• Sleeping Beneath Seashells
• A Uniform of Gray
• Georgia Penitentiary
• Soul of a Southerner |
 Summer
2022
• Aaron Burr in Georgia
• Louisville's Old Market
• Plane & Train Crash 1948
• 1804
Hurricane
• Old Charley the Fifer
• Corra Harris Goes to War
• Top Ten Novels about
GA
• Soul of a Southerner |
 Spring
2022
• George Perry's Big Catch
• The Dirt on Eating Clay
• Marion Post's '30s Photos
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Ohoopee Evensong
• Okefenokee Queen
• Amos Akerman
• Murder of Clellian Chalker
• Soul of a Southerner |
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 Winter
2021
• Emory's Gravity Problem
• Leopold's Ice Cream Shop
• Opera Houses
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Washington's 1791 Tour
• Pinhoti Trail
• Townsend Mill
• Voice of a Race Unloosed
• Soul of a Southerner
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 Autumn
2021
• Tale of Two Pandemics
• 1837 Jesse Bunkley Case
• Drake Murder in Jefferson
• Don
Juan Madrazo's Slaves
• Thomasville & Presidents
• Dalton's Hamilton Spring
• Georgia's Smallest
Town
• Soul of a Southerner
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 Summer
2021
• Terry Kay's "Lay-By Time"
• Scots Highlanders Arrive
• Nuclear Missiles in GA
• A
Wrestler Remembers
• 1909 Murder Trial
• A Cruel Revolution
• Barnesville to Talbotton
• Soul of a Southerner |
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Sample Articles
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 The
Treason of Aaron Burr
Aaron Burrn was an heroic,
erratic figure who
achieved much in the
American Army and in
politics, but every time he
visited Georgia, he was in
big trouble with the
law. |
 Song
of the Plowman's Dream - By
Terry Kay
Monotony while plowing
behind a mule gave Georgia's
mountain poet Byron Herbert
Reece the time and
inspiration necessary to
create words of art.
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 Children
of the Loom
• At the dawn of a new
century, children were put
to work in Georgia's textile
mills. The story of
child labor through the
stunning photography of
Lewis Wickes Hine.
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