This letter was written by John Adams to a friend the day after the Declaration of Independence and was later reproduced in a newspaper. “Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever decided among men. A resolution was passed unanimously ‘That these United States are, and of right ought to be, free and independent […]
OLD WASHING MACHINES by Jesse Suttles A picture of an old washing machine brought back a lot of old memories. When I was a teenager back in North East Texas. My job every Saturday morning was to draw water from a 10 inch bored well. I would fill the old cast iron kettle. Then I had to […]
Photojournalist Dorothea Lange took many pictures of people and the Georgia countryside when she toured the area in the spring of 1937. The photographs reveal much about the residents of Georgia. Here are some of these photographs with comments she made about the people and places. Bank at Homerville, Georgia Photograph shows the removal of […]
Jackson Plantation House Greene County, Georgia In the spring of 1939, photographer Marion Post Wolcott traveled to Greene County, Georgia and took photographs in the area and photographer Jack Delano visited there in 1941. They took many photographs of old abandoned plantation houses such as theses of Jackson Plantation House. In the late 1840s, James Jackson […]
Have you ever tried walking while carrying something on your head? It is not as easy as it may look. I remember trying when I was younger with only a book on my head. It was supposed to be a way to look graceful when I walked. Photographs below by Marion Post Walcott – Natchez, […]
BEARS AMONG THE GREENERY BY INEZ MCCOLLUM Skid Marks on embankment A few years ago some friends and I spent a few days in a chalet in Gatlinburg. When we arrived at the chalet, I discovered some skid marks down an embankment to the deck. I decided those were bear skids and refused to sit […]
NEW LAND By Dorothy Graham Gast In the port of Larne, Ireland, John Cork and his wife Elizabeth, heavy with child, boarded the ship, “Lord Dundee” in high spirits. October 4, 1772 seemed more like summer than fall. James Gillis was the captain of the 400 ton ship that carried a group of Protestant refugees […]
The Ole Black Wash Pot by Jean Butterworth The ole black wash pot now has more uses that it used to. Where is yours? Mine was given to me by a grandmother so long ago I have forgotten which one. My wash pot is used to hold a blue Hydrangea bush and is so beautiful […]
William F. [Flavius] Cost, 11th Cavalry The Soldier That Guarded President Lincoln Researched and donated by Andy Bryant William and his Family: William Flavius Cost was born July 26, 1837. He died May 23, 1881. By records of the Loudoun County, Virginia 1850 Census, William was 13 years old in that year. He had a brother […]
OLE BLUE, COME HOME by Jean Butterworth Ole Blue was a blue tick hound of my Dad’s during the late nineteen forties. This dog gave my Dad lots of pleasure in the fact that he could smell a deer a mile off. Ole Blue’s was a member of the Tuscaloosa Bear Creek Hunting club’s pack […]
