Through Mountain Mists

Senior scholar, Loyal Jones, a native of nearby Cherokee County, North Carolina, and for many years director of Appalachian Studies at Berea...

The state of Georgia is divided into 159 counties. Within each county are further subdivisions called Militia Districts. Union County is div...

Recently a person I met who descends from a Reece family that settled in Union County when the county was new asked me to write about this p...

A telephone call led me on a research dig, first about the New Hope Methodist Church Cemetery in Union County, Georgia and then to the Cobb ...

Judge Thomas Slaughter Candler at the dedication service of the Brasstown Bald Recreation Area, June, 1971, the last public function he atte...

In last week's column we revisited the store of Mr. John Andrew Wimpey and his wife, Nellie Jane Duckworth Wimpey. I neglected to write ...

On the 4th of July we all summon our highest degree of patriotism. We listen to speeches calling forth our best American spirit. We find our...

The Rev. George Erwin was a brother to Dr. Frank Erwin, subject of last week’s article. How Rev. George Erwin came to serve with distinction...

Dr. Frank J. Erwin was a country doctor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Union County, Georgia. It has been somewhat di...

Before I launch into today's article, please accept this correction from last week's story about "Some of the Descendants of Le...

Setting the record straight is very important to me. Therefore, I admit that I made a mistake in names in last week's column (April 12 e...

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

When I first began researching area history and heard the name Zenobia Addington Chastain, I was fascinated by it. When I learned further th...

As you gather with family and/or friends for a Thanksgiving Day celebration may you find many things for which to give thanks. In our family...

The work of circuit riding ministers in the early days of settlement in the mountain counties of north Georgia required a person of strong p...

The last column looked at the life and work of the Rev. Thomas M. Hughes (1809-1882), an early Union County settler who was associated with ...

For several weeks now we’ve explored aspects of the Eli Townsend family and its branches. That subject still has many avenues to explore, bu...

“ The Pioneer ” Union County High School newspaper has held my attention for three columns now. Before I leave its fascinating pages, I will...