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 Brenda Durant | Features
Paintings by Rhian Swain At First, you may not notice her. When she is not taking photos, she usually sits at the back of the room and appears not to know anyone present. Then you catch sight of her fiery red, curly hair as she smiles or laughs. Now she lights up the...
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 Augusta Magazine Staff | Features
Edits made by Augusta magazine staff Photography by Amy J. Owen Young professionals between the ages of 25 and 35 are changing the landscape — surpassing previous generations in numbers and diversity, these young professionals have taken on a new role of influence,...
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