Dutch Spirits On Georgia Soil

Dutch Spirits On Georgia Soil

by | Where The Road Takes Us

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 and South Carolina. Videographer Mark Albertin and narrator...
Sacred Waters

Sacred Waters

by | Features

By Jim Garvey  |  Photos by Mark Albertin Okefenokee. The magical name carries images of a dark, untouched wilderness of cypress, Spanish moss, exotic birds and alligators. I’d always meant to see it someday. Maybe that day was now. The adventure began at the Fresh...
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

by | Features

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...