by Lee Ann Caldwell | Parting Shot
ON OCTOBER 22, the Academy of Richmond County Hall of Fame will induct 10 new members. Founded four years ago the ARC Hall of Fame recognizes alumni, teachers and coaches who have made important contributions at the local, state, national and occasionally...
by Lee Ann Caldwell | Parting Shot
AS GEORGIA and its 12 sister states gloried in their hard-won independence in the mid-1780s, Augusta was the southwestern frontier of the United States. New settlers poured into Georgia’s piedmont over the next decade, making Augusta the hub of the expanding...
by Lee Ann Caldwell | Parting Shot
Fire on the mountains— snakes in the grass. Satan’s here a-billin;— oh, Lordy, let him pass! — Portion of the poem The Mountain Whippoorwill by Stephen Vincent Benet, which was the inspiration for Charlie Daniel’s song “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” MANY HAVE...
by Lee Ann Caldwell | Parting Shot
When the reverent David Floyd died on October 9, 1900, the newspaper wrote that it was “one of the largest funerals of a colored person every witnessed.” In spite of a downpour that continued through the afternoon, there was not a vacant seat in Trinity Christian...