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AUTUMN 2024 • VOLUME 23, NUMBER
3 • TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Along the
Backroads: A
Diminishment in Peters
Woods
Richard Peters wouldn't
recognize the vast farm
where he engaged in
detailed and productive
agricultural
experimentation in the
late 1800s.
BY DANIEL M. ROPER •
GORDON COUNTY |
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Going on the
Wagon
Those who wished to keep
Elbert dry had all the
momentum until election
eve.
BY RAY CHANDLER •
ELBERT COUNTY |
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Kennesaw
Mountain Almost Became a
Cold War Bunker
In the 1950s, the
National Park Service
battled the Air Force
over plans to build a
massive command bunker
deep beneath Kennesaw
Mountain.
BY ANDREW J.
BRAMLETT • COBB COUNTY |
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New Family, New
Name, New Life, Three
Wives
Fleeing from Tennessee
to Georgia in 1860,
prominent Baptist
preacher William R.
Flinn became William
Arflin.
BY BOB & AMY MOON •
BANKS COUNTY |
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Memories &
Mementos
Mementos passed down a
century after a
grandmother's death
revealed a great deal to
her granddaughter.
BY DR. ELIZABETH
HOOLE MCARTHUR • CLAY
COUNTY |
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"My Dear Mr.
Carnegie"
One of the first free
public libraries in
Georgia - and the South
- came through the work
of a woman with ties to
industrialist Andew
Carnegie.
BY RAY CHANDLER •
ELBERT COUNTY |
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Almost as Old as
the United States
Brunswick's Glynn
Academy is one of two
active Georgia schools
older than our nation's
constitution.
BY MASON STEWART •
GLYNN COUNTY |
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Historic Rural
Churches of Georgia:
Ezekiel Congregational
Methodist
In 1856, a Georgian
established a
splinter-denomination
from mainline Methodism.
BY CLAYTON H. RAMSEY &
KELLY GOMEZ • WARE
COUNTY |
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An Oasis of Sanity
Georgia Tech's Alexander
Memorial Coliseum gives
students a welcome break
from rigorous classwork.
BY KEITH PROPST •
FULTON COUNTY |
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The Homeplace
An early 1800s mountain
house echoes even today
with the sound of
running feet, laughing
children, crying babies,
and rocking chairs.
BY
DEBBIE WILSON • MURRAY
COUNTY |
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Georgia was
Never on My Mind
Moving in mysterious
ways, providence led a
Detroit-area family to
rural Georgia.
BY DEBBIE GLADDEN •
FLOYD COUNTY
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500 Pounds of
Cotton
With a mortgage due and
the crop meager, prayer
and backbreaking labor
were the only hope.
BY DARRELL BLACK •
BARTOW COUNTY
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Love Bears All
Things
A young couple came
together despite
religious differnces,
war, and monetary
problems.
BY S.T. LANTER •
GLYNN COUNTY
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Genuine Georgia
Backroads: Over the Roof
of Georgia
The northeast Georgia
mountains are lovely
year-round, but autumn
is special.
BY DAVID J. JENKINS
• NORTHEAST GEORGIA
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Soul of a
Southerner
A southerner
fondly writes about growing up,
and living, in the South.
BY MARY ANN ANDERSON •
GEORGIA |
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When Books Open,
the World Changes
Savannah's Colored
Carnegie Library has
served its community
since 1914.
BY CLAYTON H. RAMSEY •
CHATHAM COUNTY
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Civil War Portrait
From a distinguished
Athens family, Captain
Howell Cobb Jr. served
on the staff of his
father, General Howell
Cobb.
BY DAVID W. VAUGHAN •
CLARKE COUNTY
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