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Autumn, 2011 • VOLUME 10, NUMBER
2 | TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Along the
Backroads: The End
of Putnam
It's hard to say exactly
when the long slide into
oblivion began for
Putnam, a once-vibrant
farming community in
west Georgia, but
identifying the reason
for its abrupt end
is easy.
BY DANIEL M. ROPER •
MARION
COUNTY |
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Vanishing
Georgia: Small
Town Life - Fayetteville
Growing up in
Fayetteville in the
1940s and '50s meant
summer evenings on the
porch, watching traelers
coming into town, lots
and lots of family, and
playing in the barn (of
all things to find in
town).
BY LUCY WALLER • FAYETTE
COUNTY |
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Summering at
Sunbury
Appreciating history
is easy when you
discover that so
much was made right
in your back (and
front) yard.
BY MARCIA MAYO •
LIBERTY COUNTY |
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Lumpkin County's
Historic 1836 Courthouse
In addition to routine
legal transactions and
proceedings, Dahlonega's
historic courthouse has
witnessed slave
auctions, murders,
military maneuvers,
carnivals, and other
events.
BY ANNE DISMUKES
AMERSON • LUMPKIN COUNTY |
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Return of the
Magic Cicadas
Once every thirteen
years, nature puts on a
magnificent display when
billions of innocuous
insects abruptly emerge
from the ground to take
brief but raucous
dominion
over their
surroundings.
BY DIRK J. STEVENSON
• NORTH GEORGIA |
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Blind Willie
McTell's Georgia Journey
When Willie McTell died
in 1959, he was nearly
unknown. Over the
years since, his
anonymity has faded as
blues fans and the
Georgia towns he called
home have come to
appreciate his
extraordinary musical
ability.
BY DIANE J. SHEARER
• MCDUFFIE, BULLOCH AND
FULTON COUNTIES |
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Remembering a
Town Called Zirkle
Southeast Georgia's
swamps and pine barrens
once rang to the sound
of the axe, crosscut
saw, and boisterous
lumber men. At the
site of one
long-vanished timber
town, a vistior can
still hear echoes of
that era.
BY ROBBIE THOMAS AND
WAYNE MORGAN • PIERCE
AND BRANTLEY COUNTIES |
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Famed
"Highwaymen" Artists
have Deep Roots in
Georgia
For decades, travelers
could purchase colofrul
portraits of Florida and
Georgia landscapes from
a troupe of skillful
painters who sold them
right out of their car
trunks.
BY JANIE DEMPSEY
WATTS • SOUTH GEORGIA |
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Visiting
Historic Warwoman Dell
For centuries, a verdant
glen high
in the mountains has
drawn hunters, settlers,
adventurers, and the
occasional industrial
project or government
works program.
BY MARION BLACKWELL
• RABUN COUNTY |
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Let Thy Children
Walk with Nature
Just a few years after
the Civil War, young
John Muir walked across
Georgia on a journey
that would eventually
lead west to renown as a
journalist and educator.
BY PARKER BLOUNT •
EAST GEORGIA |
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Never Trust a
Yankee
When a young Confederate
guard agrees to trade
with a wily Union
veteran imprisoned at
Andersonville, there are
lessons to be learned.
BY TRAVIS MCDANIEL •
SUMTER COUNTY |
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The Last Man
Hanged in Camden County
In 1911, Andrew Jackson
O'Berry became teh last
man hanged in Camden
County and just the
second white man in
Georgia executed for
crimes against black
victims.
BY BARBARA JACKSON
RYAN • CAMDEN COUNTY |
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Memories are
Made of This
A family is shaped by
"old-time religion"
experienced at Holbrook
Campground's summertime
meetings.
BY BECKY WILLIAMS
BUCKMAN • CHEROKEE
COUNTY |
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Genuine Georgia
Backroads: Last
Rise of the Appalachians
The lure of Pine
Mountain and its
environs brought FDR to
Georgia, Lewis Grizzard
back to Georgia, and
it still beckons visitors
who long for the
serenity and beauty of
Georgia's back roads.
BY LYNNE TAYLOR •
COWETA, HARRIS AND
MERIWETHER COUNTIES |
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