Through Mountain Mists

The weather was already hot, even in the “cool” mountain region in the shadow of Blood and Bald Mountains in North Georgia on Saturday, June...

Andrew Hooper was the fourth of twelve children born to Absalom, Sr. and Sarah Salers Hooper, and one of the three Hooper brothers who settl...

Delightful task! To rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.” -James Thomson (1700-1748 – from “The Seasons—Spring” T...

In last week’s column we looked at the life of Harmon and Sarah Clonginger Brown who were in Union County until where they lived became Town...

Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. These lines from poet George Po...

Last week we saw Jim Berry as an employee of the Pfister- Vogel Land Company that had purchased large tracts of mountain land. Jim Berry was...

Visit New Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery in Choestoe, stretched in front of a beautiful white country church house, with Enotah (Brasstown ...

Last week’s column centered on Dr. Thomas Newton Berry (1870-1927), country doctor, something of his practice in Union County, of his black ...

"If the hat fits, wear it!" might well have been the advice to young medical student Claude Hemphill III from his grandmother, Mrs...

The Mountains of Yesteryear is the title of a delightful little book that came to my desk recently. A gift from Ronald Eugene Miles of Minn...

Women in this present age often wear many "hats"- career, community activist, wife, mother, grandmother. This time of year we set ...

For many years no paved roads aided traffic in Union County. In 2005 most of the roads are paved, even “country” or “county” roads. At one...

I began my teaching career in the same school I entered as a first grader when the new two-teacher Choestoe school building opened. Back in ...