Category: Writer’s Journal
Writer’s journal about my life, my Georgia, my family.
11.06.2022
Connections: A Trip to Philadelphia, Bartram’s Travels and a Tree from Georgia’s Colonial Frontier
More than two years into the Covid lockdown, our lives have changed. Gardening has taken over at…
06.05.2022
Ten Years on a Yankee Plantation, Episode1
Introduction to the Series Located in the heart of “Quail Country,” Pebble Hill Plantation is a 2,000- acre…
25.04.2022
Is There Life Beyond Academia? What I Discovered Outside the Ivy Walls
After fifteen years as a history profssor at a state university, I left college teaching. I My…
18.04.2022
As the Blade Turns: The Zen of Lawn Mower Repair
Spring has brought the usual tasks-and kept me away from writing. There are the usual lawn treatments to…
06.04.2022
Connections: A Photojournalist, A Professor and a Family Counselor…Reuniting With Friends
Actually, it was not a bar, but an art gallery. After posting plans for Neil McGahee’s photography exhibit…
28.02.2022
Redux: Mitchell and Warm Springs; A Link Between Two Small Georgia Towns and President Roosevelt
This is a republishing of my earlier post about the links between two small Georgia towns, links that…
14.02.2022
Connections: A Georgia Soldier, Two Presidents, and the TITANIC Disaster
If you have toured the stately antebellum homes in Roswell, Georgia you likely know that President Theodore Roosevelt’s…