Welcome
to
Georgia Backroads,
an award-winning,
hold-it-in-your-hands print publication devoted to Georgia history, nature,
travel, and
exploring our state.
If you enjoy good writing, interesting photos from
past and present, and stories
told fairly, fully, and completely, you'll enjoy
Georgia Backroads. If
you like holding a magazine
in your hands rather than viewing it on a screen,
you'll enjoy hours reading the magazine. Each issue
is 64 pages with more
than 30,000 words in articles (longer than many
books today) and scores of photos. Enjoy browsing
the sample articles below. We invite you to subscribe. You can do so by
Clicking Here
or
by calling
us toll free at 1-800-547-1625. We appreciate and thank you for your
patronage.
Birthdays and Other Gifts:
We fill gift orders within two days and
sometimes on the day you place it. We're happy to assist you in
making gift subscriptions to the magazine.
You can reach us
at 1-800-547-1625 or
Subscribe Here.
Subscription Only:
Beginning with the Autumn 2022 issue, the magazine
is available by subscription only. Distributor
rates increased so much in 2022 that
delivering the
magazine to stores became impractical. A subscription
is cheaper than buying retail, so you'll come out
ahead by subscribing. We invite you to do so:
Subscribe Here.
If you missed any issues, we have them in stock.
For more information, call us at
1-800-547-1625 or email
georgiabackroads@comcast.net.
|
Current Issue
(late May to late
August 2023)
|
 Summer
2023
• Catface Fever
•
Vanishing Georgia: Our Men,
Our Fathers
• Two Men Named Billy
•
Daddy's Bird Pie
• A
Farewell to Loving Arms
•
Beatlemania in Georgia!
• Mary
Ann Anderson's "Soul of a
Southerner"
• Heart
of a Scoundrel, Instincts of
a Fiend
• African American Primitive
Baptists
• Back in Milledgeville
• Puss Hortman and the
Southern Harmony Boys
• Fightingtown Creek
• Civil War Portrait |
|
Click here to read more
about the Summer 2023 issue |
|
|
|
|
To subscribe or to give a gift
subscription:
|
|
Begin your new subscription today or you can order the
perfect gift for family and friends.
|
|
Recent Issues
|
 Spring
2023
• Largest Meteorite
• Dorothea Lange Photos
• Darien Stage Road Murder
•
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
•
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
•
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
•
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
|
 Spring
2021
• Terry Kay's "Reunion"
• VG: Jack Delano
Photography
• Killing
Fields
•
Wizard from Omega
• For the Relief of Paupers
• To the Gallows
• Boy Scout Adventures
• Soul of a Southerner |
Please visit our "Back Issues"
section to browse
all issues
|
|
|
|
Our Books
|
|
Still Small Voices
Softcover – Price:
$35.00
Now $25.00
ISBN: 1-880816-24-5
Publisher: Legacy Communications Inc.
Look through the lens and listen to the quiet voices of nature as photographer
Marc Del Santro and writer Ann Foskey take you on a journey into the heart of Georgia’s
last wild places. From dunes shaped by glacial winds to bogs, swamps, ravines, and
remnant prairies, Georgia is blessed with an abundant natural heritage. This exquisite
collection of photographs, poetry and prose captures the essence of Georgia’s natural
history from the mountains to the coast, as seen in the series Still Small Voices,
featured in Georgia Backroads
magazine. Carefully crafted and
elegantly designed, this
heirloom-quality book is sure to be
a classic. Printed in an 9 ½” by 9
½” inch format, 150 pages.
|
|
|
Click
here to read more about this and other
Legacy books. |
|
|
Sample Articles
|
 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.
|
 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.
|
|
 |
|
