Growing up in Red Oak, Georgia along U.S. 29 or Roosevelt Highway my father indulged my sister and I with just about every pet imaginable with reptiles being the exception. Of course, we had the regular assortment of dogs and cats that just seemed to take up with us...usually at a time when they … [Read more...]
Banishment in the Twenty-First Century – Georgia Style
In 1974, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld a criminal sentence for a woman who was banished from seven different counties for a year. Immediately two questions pop into my head. Seven counties!?! Banished!?! While I do have a list of folks....a very short list...running through my mind … [Read more...]
The Long Dirt Road
I love dirt roads, and Georgia is full of them. When I was 18 and a newbie on the college campus of my father's choosing, I was a member of The Dirt Road Club. The requirements were simple - you had to have enough money to invest in either gas or an appropriate beverage or two for you and your … [Read more...]
Getting to the Tooth of the Matter
Do you know what these are? If you guessed dental tools you would be correct. Now, who owned them? None other than America's silversmith and favorite member of the Sons of Liberty who rode the countryside warning the folks that the British were coming. No - not William Dawes, but that … [Read more...]