In 1962, William Bailey Williford did the citizens of Atlanta and folks like me a huge favor when he researched and wrote his book Peachtree Street published by UGA Press. I’ve accessed the book dozens of times at my local library and the few chapters that appear online with Google Books, but … [Read more...]
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Peruse Lisa's general posts as well as entries from her Every Now and Then, Georgia On My Mind, and History is Elementary blogs.
George Washington’s Library Fines
In April, 2010 I ran across a news story being passed around the Internet regarding a couple of books that had been missing from the New York Society Library for over 220 years. It seems the person who had checked the books out was none other than President George Washington. The library wasn’t … [Read more...]
Here Come the Mercer Brides!
Sometimes I wonder how much money I spent during my youth on magazines such as Tiger Beat and 16 Magazine. It was the one way I could obtain all the pin-ups I wanted of my “favs” such as the Osmonds, David Cassidy, The Bay City Rollers and Rick Springfield. I actually made the switch from buying … [Read more...]
The Lone Star of Texas…an Idea Born in Georgia
The little of town of Knoxville, Georgia is so small you wouldn’t have heard of it even if you drove right through it. It’s the county seat of Crawford County, but it only has about 800 people living there. Even John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola left town as a young boy and moved to … [Read more...]
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