Thursday, November 24, 2011

Doing Our Part to Bring Thanksgiving to Many: or a Venture into Raising Turkeys on Our Farm

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How my father learned about the availability of baby turkeys that he could order-off for and have delivered by rural mail carrier to our far...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Honoring Early Settlers in the Duncan Family and Sheriff Harlan Duncan, a Descendant

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One Duncan family was present in the new Union County when the first census was taken of residents in 1834, two years after the county was f...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Lard Pail Lunches and Shared Knowledge (or Life in a Country School ~ Part 3)

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Through the past two columns, I have shared memories of attending and teaching my first year in the same country school. I hope this journey...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Lard Pail Lunches and Shared Knowledge (or Life in a Country School ~ Part 2)

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Attending a country school for the first seven grades of my education and then returning to the same school to teach my first year as an edu...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Lard Pail Lunches and Shared Knowledge (or Life in a Country School ~ Part 1)

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Choestoe School in Union County, Georgia, 1936 through 1943 has a special place in my memory, in things I love, and in who I became in life....
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Unicoi Turnpike as a “Trail through Time” (Part 2)

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Last week’s column presented the Georgia Historical Marker wording on the Unicoi Turnpike and gave a brief account of some of the importance...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Unicoi Turnpike

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The Unicoi Turnpike was an old road that played prominently in the early days of settlement of Union and Towns Counties, and, indeed, as a t...