Thursday, September 25, 2008

James "Jim" Berry, the Last of the True Mountaineers (Part 2)

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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...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

James "Jim" Berry, the Last of the True Mountaineers

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Visit New Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery in Choestoe, stretched in front of a beautiful white country church house, with Enotah (Brasstown ...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Awful Anniversary: Remembering 9/11

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"Where were you on the morning of September 11, 2001?" No doubt you have been asked that question many times since that awful and...
Thursday, September 4, 2008

More on the Berry Kin

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Last week’s column centered on Dr. Thomas Newton Berry (1870-1927), country doctor, something of his practice in Union County, of his black ...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Dr. Thomas Newton Berry, Mountain Doctor

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"If the hat fits, wear it!" might well have been the advice to young medical student Claude Hemphill III from his grandmother, Mrs...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Dr. Thomas Jackson Lance, President of Young Harris College, 1930-1942

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Dr. Thomas Jackson "Jack" Lance (31 Jan 1886 - 27 Jan 1880) President, Young Harris College, 1930-1942 Among great persons who hav...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

A Light in the Window--Ros's Story

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The late Charles Roscoe Collins of Choestoe in Union County, Georgia, about whom I have written recent articles, told me the following story...