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 Winter
2022
• The Rowdy Days and Ways of
Lewis Grizzard
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Vanishing Georgia:
Streetcars
• Jennie Berry's Roman
Odyssey
• General Alfred H. Colquitt
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The Atlantan Who Rode with
Custer
• Historic Rural
Churches: Camp Meetings
• Mary
Ann Anderson's "Soul of a
Southerner"
• The
Cost of Living Free
• Jingle All the Way....to
Savannah
• Mosquito Crossing Memories
• Scull Shoals
• Genuine
Georgia Backroads: Old Gaol
to Eagle Tavern
• Civil War Portrait |
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Recent Issues
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 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 |
 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 |
 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 |
 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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 Spring
2021
• Terry Kay's "Reunion"
• VG: Jack Delano
Photography
• Killing
Fields
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Wizard from Omega
• For the Relief of Paupers
• To the Gallows
• Boy Scout Adventures
• Soul of a Southerner
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 Winter
2020
• Celestine Sibley
• VG: The Family
• Minnie
Hauk to Americus
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Aumuculle Massacre of 1818
• Fort Mountain Talc Mines
• Fort Pulaski Yankees
• HRCGA Tilley Bend Baptist
• Soul of a Southerner |
 Autumn
2020
• Janiesse Ray "Old
Cemeteries"
• VG: The Corner Drug Store
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Pinesap & Black Magic
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Liberty National Bank
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Why GA is the Peach State
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Musical Greats
• HRCGA Travelers Rest
• 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
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 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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