by Jim Garvey | Where The Road Takes Us
Opening photo courtesy of Foxfire Museum | Photos by Mark Albertin Desperation begets inspiration. It happened in the southern Appalachians in the 1800s. And it happened in a Rabun County classroom in North Georgia in 1966. The meeting of the two created the...
by Jim Garvey | Where The Road Takes Us
They put up a parking lot, but they didn’t pave paradise. Mark and I discovered this after we parked in the empty lot at Radium Springs, outside of Albany, Ga., and not expecting much, walked towards the stairway at its edge. Descending the steps, we entered an Edenic...
by Jim Garvey | Where The Road Takes Us
After William Tecumseh Sherman finished his March to the Sea with the capture of Savannah in 1864, he paid a visit to Nellie Gordon, an old friend he knew in Chicago before she got married and moved south. It must have been awkward since Nellie’s husband was off...
by Jim Garvey | Where The Road Takes Us
Most Augustans use Wrightsboro Road to go to the mall or Walmart, or maybe downtown to the hospital or west to Grovetown. Commuters typically take Wrightsboro Road in tiny pieces, little segments, without knowing the former history of the main thoroughfare. The...
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...
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