This post is an excerpt from my soon to be published book, "Every Now and Then: The Amazing Stories of Douglas County, Georgia"! Growing up my sister and I looked for certain landmarks as we traveled the Atlanta expressways with our parents. If we were heading north up Interstate 85 I would … [Read more...]
Atlanta’s Historic Row Houses: Baltimore Block
My parents periodically had out of state friends visit us, and of course, we always took them to see the sights in Atlanta. In the late 1960s and 70s the sights included the Varsity, a trip to the airport to watch planes take off and land, and we would have been considered poor hosts if we didn't … [Read more...]
Georgia’s First Christmas Tree
When I was a little girl one of our Thanksgiving traditions was to decorate our Christmas tree. Dear Mother balked at first, but Dear Sister and I argued that the Rich’s Great Tree was lit on Thanksgiving evening, so why shouldn’t the Land family tree follow suit. Faced with that logic Dear … [Read more...]
The Freedom from Want – A Thanksgiving Image
I love this Norman Rockwell image. Many consider it to be the quintessential Thanksgiving image. Did you know it was inspired by a State of the Union address given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt? In January, 1941, President Roosevelt delivered his State of the Union address which is often … [Read more...]
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