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SUMMER 2023 • VOLUME 22, NUMBER
2 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Along the
Backroads: Farewell
to Loving Arms
Hazel Redmon and Arthur
Roberts measured their love in
lifetimes.
BY DANIEL M. ROPER •
FLOYD COUNTY |
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Vanishing
Georgia: Our Men, Our
Fathers
An old shotgun is a
reminder of when a
loving family provided
all the security a
little girl needed.
BY WENDY HARRISON •
RANDOLPH COUNTY & STATEWIDE |
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Daddy's Bird Pie
An old cobbler pan is a
memento of a father who
knew how to live off the
land.
BY DEBBIE BRYANT
WILSON •
MURRAY COUNTY |
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Catface Fever
Rehabilitating relics
from Georgia's
turpentine industry is
one man's passion.
BY MICHELLE Y.
HUBBARD •
EMANUEL COUNTY |
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Two Men Named
Billy
One Tifton Billy gave
the comman to open fire
in America's first World
War II combat, the other
became a prisoner of war
in Germany.
BY BONNE DAVIS CELLA •
TIFT COUNTY |
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Beatlemania!
On a summer evening in
1965, tens of thousands
of adoring fans
welecomed an iconic
British band to Atlanta.
BY DONNIE SUMMERLIN •
FULTON COUNTY |
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Heart of a
Scoundrel, Instincts of
a Fiend
Yellow journalism and
muckraking tied Macon
society into knots in
1885.
BY MAX LONGLEY •
BIBB COUNTY |
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Historic Rural
Churches of Georgia:
African American
Primitive Baptists
The story of a church is
only partly told by
counting the number of
faithful in its pews.
BY
CLAYTON H. RAMSEY •
STATEWIDE |
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Night of the
Willopus Willipus
Some northwest Georgians
feared the night-riding
Regulators who roamed
the area in the 1880s.
Others welcome them.
BY SAM GOWIN •
WHITFIELD & MURRAY
COUNTIES
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Back in Milly
There's much to see, do,
and taste in
Milledgeville, Georgia's
Old Capital City.
BY CHERYL RODEWIG •
BALDWIN COUNTY
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Puss Hortman and
the Southern Harmony
Boys
Leading an orchestra
came with plenty of
perks, but it could be
hard on family life.
BY BOB HORTMAN •
RANDOLPH COUNTY &
EUFAULA
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When Georgia
River Running Got Real
A paddling odyssey led
Bob Sehlinger and Don
Otey to create the
state's first paddling
guidebooks.
BY SUZANNE WELANDER
• STATEWIDE
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Slashed,
Trashed, Mashed, Bashed
When kayaking, necessity
is the mother of
invention and sometimes
the instigator of ire.
BY RANDALL SAVAGE •
MONROE COUNTY
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The Place of the
Frog Wars
The location of a
legendary battle now
provides visitors with
beauty and tranquility.
BY MARLA AYCOCK •
FANNIN COUNTY
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When Bobby Jones
Met Ty Cobb
Illustrious Georgians Ty
Cobb and Bobby Jones
competed against one
another in fishing and
hunting.
BY BILL BAAB •
FRANKLIN & RICHMOND
COUNTIES
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Soul of a
Southerner
A southerner
fondly writes her
memories of growing up
and living in the South.
BY MARY ANN ANDERSON •
GEORGIA |
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Genuine Georgia
Backroads - Newborn to
Eatonton
Stone effigies, fabled
rabbits, and good
history characterize
this section of Classic
Georgia.
BY DAVID B. JENKINS
• MIDDLE GEORGIA
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Easy Season
On the South Fork of the
Jacks River, the end of
summer is an easy
season.
BY DAN ROPER
• FANNIN COUNTY
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Civil War Portrait
Commander George
Sinclair served in both
the U.S. and the
Confederate States
navies.
BY DAVID W. VAUGHAN •
CHATHAM COUNTY
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