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22.08.2021
Connections: Daniel Chester French, James Oglethorpe, and Tate, Georgia
Often on winter nights, I am awakened by the sound of the blasting at the marble quarry, which…
11.08.2021
Connections: Darien, Georgia, the Civil War and Sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)) is known for his many extraordinary sculptural creations, many of them on display at his…
05.08.2021
New Echota and the Cherokee Removal Story
The old capital of the Cherokee Nation is part restoration, part reconstruction. It includes a small and beautifully…
31.07.2021
Appalachian Hiker and Autism
It took him more than six months to hike the long trail from Amicalola Falls in Georgia to…
30.07.2021
“Indian Territory”: A Few Common Misconceptions About the Southeastern Native Americans
Most of us have a tendency to “conflate” what we learn about specific periods of history so that…
24.07.2021
Georgia Road Trip: From Talking Rock and Tate to Thomasville and Cordele, Georgia
Entertaining my son, daughter and granddaughter during their summer visit from Thomasville, we found much to see at…
19.06.2021
Review: Robert Klara, FDR’s Funeral Train; A Betrayed Widow, A Soviet Spy, and A Presidency in the Balance. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010.
Historians are not the best at writing history as a rule and even the best writers often cannot…