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...
by Jim Garvey | Where The Road Takes Us
With our June/July issue of Augusta magazine Where the Road Takes Us has two stops. First we head to Jekyll Island to witness the release of rehabilitated turtles through Turtles Fly Too. The idea is simple: two down-to-earth guys hitting the road to explore some...
by Jim Garvey | Where The Road Takes Us
With this issue of Augusta magazine Where the Road Takes Us heads to Fitzgerald, Ga., an old colony for Union veterans deep in the heart of the Confederacy. The idea is simple: two down-to-earth guys hitting the road to explore some remote Southern locations in...
by Jim Garvey | Where The Road Takes Us
With this issue of Augusta magazine Where the Road Takes Us heads to Plum Branch, S.C., where Lori Barba rehabilitates songbirds at her Ascending Bird Sanctuary. The idea is simple: two down-to-earth guys hitting the road to explore some remote Southern locations in...
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