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Loren Smith’s Column: Jonas, Giving Back

Loren Smith’s Column: Jonas, Giving Back     Somewhere along the way in recent years, I saw an ...

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Loren Smith on keeping the Georgia-Florida game in Jacksonville

It is interesting to see the reaction taking place in the city of Jacksonville regarding the playing of ...

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It’s OK not to be OK – World Mental Health Awareness Month

By: Mrs. Husna Habib IEP Case Manager @ Sumter County High School It’s okay to feel unstable. It’s ...

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Influenza in Americus Part 3: Remembering a Pandemic

BY:  Evan Kutzler Five years before marrying Earl Carter and six years before giving birth a son named ...

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Influenza in Americus Part 2: Navigating Uncertainty

By: Evan Kutzler For some, the 1918-20 influenza pandemic undermined confidence in expert opinions. An anonymous contributor to ...

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Influenza in Americus

Part 1: The Force of a Train By: Evan Kutzler John Bradshaw knew the dangers of being a ...

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Americus History Trails

By: Evan A. Kutzler On Saturday, April 23, 2022, at 10:00 a.m., the Sumter Historic Trust will unveil ...

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Spring break adventures in New York and Spain

Submitted by Leila Case “It’s Easter time and time for eggs and time for eggs is Easter time.” ...

Columns

Russians share their thoughts on Ukraine invasion

Dick Yarbrough Linden Longino is a retired Atlanta banker who should have Nobel Peace Prize recipient next to ...

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A poetry reading and Irish eyes are smiling

Leila Case It was a treat to see and talk to Gabriel Stauf of St. Petersburg, Florida, a ...

Columns

First Lady’s leave their mark in history

By Leila Case Emily Woodyard of Macon presented an interesting talk on “Lesser Known First Lady’s” to members ...

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The day Ignite College and Career Academy put the skids on a family business

I have been Paul V. Hall’s daughter for 50 years. Most of the days making up those 50 ...

Columns

Leila Case: My babysitting perils

By: Leila Case When I heard the price of babysitting had soared to as high as $23 an ...

Columns

Dick Yarbrough: State of this column can’t be overstated

Written by Dick Yarbrough My fellow Georgians: (Yea! Clap! Clap! Clap!) I come before you today to submit to you ...

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Saving Places, Telling Stories

By: Evan Kutzler Hancock Drive in Americus has a medley of historic homes. A walk along this street ...

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Civil Rights and a Lived Theology in a Southern Town

January 13, 2022 Evan Kutzler   Note: A version of this review was published on H-Net in April ...

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Loren Smith’s Commentary: “One More Time”

We begin with sterling appreciation for Georgia’s coaching clinic disposal of the current Big Ten champions on New ...

Columns

Fairgrounds and College: The Local Lester Maddox

By: Evan Kutzler The first time Amanda and I visited the shops in Plains was the same day ...

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The Artist and the Doughboy

By:  Evan Kutzler A century ago, on November 11, 1921, President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Tomb of ...

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He’s No Hobby Horse, He’s a Working ‘Cane!

By Michaela Reed, GSW senior English major   AMERICUS – Georgia Southwestern has welcomed eager and hardworking Hurricanes ...

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History, hauntings, and ghosts at the Windsor Hotel

By: Evan A. Kutzler I drove into Americus on Tuesday, February 23, 2016, for a job interview at ...

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Leila Case: Memories of 9/11 linger twenty years later

Memories of 9/11 are still fresh twenty years later. At the time I was in direct marketing at ...

Columns

Professional Baseball in Americus

By:  Evan A. Kutzler The year 1906 brought two institutions to Americus. The state legislature established the Third ...

Columns

Alf Hudson, Perry Grove, and the Middle Passage

BY:  Evan A. Kutzler On July 11, 1920, Lucius Hudson laid Alf Hudson to rest at the Old ...

Columns

Vernon Jones talks about running for governor

Strong opinions begat strong reactions. I recently begatted a strong opinion about Republican gubernatorial candidate Vernon Jones and ...

Columns

How does our garden grow?

Like sunflowers that turn their blowsy blooms from east to west following the sun so do the weeds ...

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Why did the Callaway House cross the street?

BY:  Evan Kutzler Most Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) meetings in Americus are noncontroversial. A homeowner wants a porch ...

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Billy Proctor’s Appeal

By:  Evan Kutzler Evan.Kutzler@gsw.edu On December 1, 1854, Billy Proctor asked a powerful enslaver to purchase him. “Sir,” ...

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