by Jim Garvey | Where The Road Takes Us
Her first brush with fame came when she taught a chicken to walk backward. Mary Flannery O’Connor was just six years old when the Pathé newsreel people heard about her and filmed a segment featuring the remarkable feat of chicken training. Years later, as a famous...
by Jim Garvey | Where The Road Takes Us
In 1884, Arthur Woody took his first breath up in the Blue Ridge range of north Georgia. Back then, mountain people like his parents lived in isolated log cabins with a patch of cultivated land hacked out of the endless forest. Their livestock grazed in the woods and...
by Jim Garvey | Where The Road Takes Us
As Mark Albertin and I drove the bumpy track through the woods back down Screamer Mountain, headed for Clayton, we were thinking the same thing: How had we never heard of Lillian Smith? At her beautifully preserved Laurel Falls Camp for girls, we discovered the...
by Jim Garvey | Where The Road Takes Us
In the early ‘60s, Albany, Ga. was in its short-lived but influential Albany Movement. Students from Albany State College, with the help of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), were campaigning to register Black voters — about 500 of them had been...
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