A Place of Miracles

A Place of Miracles

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 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

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

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

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...