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17.02.2025
Have You Missed My Best Stories?
Reading through the comments I have received recently, it seems to me that some recent subscribers do not…
14.02.2025
A Child Dies in a Smalltown Tragedy
From the “Vanishing Georgia Collection” of the Georgia Department of Archives and History, this photo suggests the flurry…
10.01.2025
Two Killings in Washington County
Another Deep South Story: Rural Free Delivery (1923) My mother said. “I remember that dry November day….
29.07.2024
J.D. Vance is Now the Republican Nominee for Vice President-It All Started With His Book Hillbilly Elegy
Reposting my review of Vance’s popular book, “Melting Pot of Grievances; Finding Context for Hillbilly Elegy” We are…
13.06.2024
Why Ancestry is Only Part of Your Story
Like most people with even a vague sense that they have ancestors that must somehow have influenced their…
06.03.2024
Culture Shock – From a Yankee Plantation to a Night at the Opera
Located in the heart of “Quail Country,” Pebble Hill Plantation is a 2,000- acre hunting preserve, one of…
10.02.2024
The Idiot’s Guide to Leaf Disposal
We live in a garden, one with lots of hardwood trees. Those twelve- foot trees growing in our…