Where Have All the Chinaberry Trees Gone? By Dorothy Graham Gast Seventy years ago the umbrella shaped chinaberry tree was in almost every county yard. The tiny purplish spring blossoms with their faint sweet smell gave way to glossy green berries hidden in the darker green leaves. Those berries were ideally suited for pea shooters […]
THE FELINE SPECIES by Inez McCollum I am a sucker for cats! I grew up with dogs; but never had a cat until my Dad gave us a beautiful white kitten. He had been a farmer as a young man; so knew all about domestic animals. He guaranteed this kitten to be a male. We […]
While economic woes made life difficult in Georgia during the 1930’s, some still had a sense of humor and strong religious convictions as revealed by the road signs below. Photographed by Dorothea Lange 1937 Photographed by Marion Post Walcott 1939 Try a trial Membership by clicking the link below. Join Amazon Prime […]
Greene County, Georgia suffered in the Depression years and many had difficulty finding work. Life was much simpler as seen by these pictures taken by Marion Post Wolcott in the spring of 1939. The desriptions are hers. Shoeing a mule in Greene County, 1939 RIBBON OF LOVE: 2nd edition – A Novel Of Colonial America: Book one […]
The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 made military and political leaders suspect that Imperial Japan was preparing a full-scale attack on the West Coast of the United States. There were many Japanese-American living in the area and the U. S. Government became increasingly concerned about where the loyalties lie. After much debate, […]
Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange’s photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. She visited Georgia in 1937 and below are some of her remarkable photographs. Farmer who has just moved into impoverished Greene County, Georgia from the […]
Georgia had some very palatial antebellum mansions as evidenced by the following photographs taken by Dorothea Lange taken in July 1937, many of these are in Greene County, Georgia. Please comment in the Reply section below if you can identify any of the beautiful mansions not labeled. Greene County, Georgia was formed on February 3, […]
GIRL BITES DOG By Joyce Ray Wheeler It hasn’t been comfortable choosing to write this article for two reasons. First, I’ve written about dogs before, and second, I’m reluctant to admit that I am the girl who bit the dog! Once again we’re in my tiny hometown in rural Kentucky. My parents owned the house […]
When Marion Post Wolcott visited Greene County, Georgia in May 1939, she discovered many abandoned houses, many which appear to be quite large and grand at one time. If these houses could talk, imagine what stories they would tell! Here are a few that have seen better days. I wish I knew who lived in them. The […]
Part I Japanese Internment The Evacuation The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 led military and political leaders to suspect that Imperial Japan was preparing a full-scale attack on the West Coast of the United States. Of 127,000 Japanese Americans living in the continental United States at the time of the Pearl Harbor […]
