A Place of Miracles

A Place of Miracles

by | Where The Road Takes Us

By Jim Garvey | Photos courtesy of the Boggs Academy Archival Project With this issue of Augusta magazine, we introduce a new series called Where the Road Takes Us. The idea is simple: two down-to-earth guys hitting the road to explore some remote Southern locations...
Dutch Spirits On Georgia Soil

Dutch Spirits On Georgia Soil

by | Where The Road Takes Us

By Jim Garvey | Photography and Videography by Mark Albertin With this issue of Augusta magazine, we introduce a new series called Where the Road Takes Us. The idea is simple: two down-to-earth guys hitting the road to explore some remote Southern locations in Georgia...
A Gift of Music

A Gift of Music

by | Features

How much love can a bucket hold? Probably depends on whose bucket … If we’re talking Ellis Johnson’s, we’re talking high capacity. Like many men up in their 80s, Johnson has a bucket list, but he attends to his with more earnestness than most. That’s because he has...
Growing Their Legacy

Growing Their Legacy

by | Features

After 100 years, Augusta’s Thompson Farms is still going strong   It started on a baseball field. In the years after the Civil War, a new game called Base Ball – always written as two words in those days – became a national obsession. Boys laid out baseball...
The Sturgeon

The Sturgeon

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They’re ugly. They’re prehistoric. They’re protected. And they’re on their way. Here come the sturgeon. There goes the neighborhood.   Well, that’s how some people react to a Corps of Engineers plan to restore habitat for the endangered fish by replacing the Lock...