Editorials
Your package has been delivered!
I am going through a fun season. I get up early in the morning, sit on my red ...
Editorials
The truth about the monsters under your bed
My bed sits high off the floor. In fact, I have a little bitty staircase helping me get ...
Editorials
Camellias, crystal, Walmart receipts and tiny surprises of goodness
One of my camellia bushes is busting out all over in glory. When I say she is busting ...
Columns
Loran Smith’s Weekly Feature Column: Cotton Today
There was a time when only the months of November, December and January had no connection with the ...
Editorials
You’re my favorite!
My parents once sent Valentine’s flowers to my office in Macon. Delighted, I opened the card to read: ...
Columns
Historic Rylander Theatre is ‘Celebrating a Century’; Trust passes the gavel
By Leila Case There’s a lot to celebrate, however, because of the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions we can’t ...
Columns
Before the Barista: The Layers of 134 W. Lamar Street
Evan A. Kutzler In A Sand County Almanac (1948), a classic on environmental conservation, Aldo Leopold eulogized a ...
Editorials
She has character! And worm holes!
Transition. I did not know what to call it, and I am not entirely sure “transition” is the ...
Editorials
Clawfoot has a story to tell
I have not had a bath in over six years. To be clear, I have showered, just not ...
Columns
Fightn’ the Vid
By: Stick Miller Boyce “Stick” Miller lives in Americus. Contact him at stickmiller @gmail.com While Inauguration Day has been ...
Editorials
Truth: There is no kitten stuck up the tree
About 10 years ago, I and my two cats moved from Atlanta to Americus and promptly set up ...
Editorials
When your black-eyed peas come with time travel
There is a mandate this time of year. It requires lingering in our past while also tiptoeing into ...
Columns
Hip, Hip, Hooray! Hip, Hip, Hooray! Huzzah!
By: Leila Case A Colonial era toast that is as appropriate today as it was then to turn ...
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Columns and foundations
The first sign was the buckling. The second sign was the heel of my stiletto busting through. My ...
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How to beautifully handle what irritates you
“Tracy, what do you want for—” “Pearls!” The question very rarely must be completely asked. The answer is ...
Editorials
Good Company’s Coming!
Mama started me on a silver pattern in my young days. She knew waiting to accrue silver through ...
Editorials
The night superheroes cried
It is a side to the story I have always treasured. It was one of those experiences that ...
Columns
A Bird’s Eye View: Dec 2020
By: Phil Hardy Inquiries have been pouring in and all are asking the same question: What’s happened ...
Columns
“Dear Santa” in a year of war and pestilence
Evan A. Kutzler November 28, 2020 evan.kutzler@gsw.edu On December 6, 1918, the Americus Times-Recorder printed a letter to ...
Columns
It’s beginning to look like Christmas at our house
By: Leila Case A sign in front of a shop I visited last week announced, “Four Saturdays until ...
Editorials
Worn Wisdom and Mercer Sweatshirts
If the house were on fire, I would grab it first. Forget the jewels, forget my grandparents’ marriage ...
Editorials
Waiting in Gratitude
I’ve never seen it in person, but I can imagine it. On November 1 at midnight a phenomenon ...
Columns
Lessons from frogs and Freds
A lifetime ago I found myself as a young therapist going to work in an office on the ...
Columns
Wreaths Across America reminds us to remember loved ones
By: Leila Case Andersonville National Historic Cemetery in Andersonville is among the military cemeteries across the nation that ...
Columns
Is Providence Canyon anything but a good example of bad behavior?
Part 2: It is what it is, but how did it get that way? By: Burt Carter Long ...
Columns
Georgia Runoffs, a brief history
By: Evan A. Kutzler evan.kutzler@gsw.edu November 9, 2020 On Tuesday, November 3, 2020, Georgians cast what many voters ...
Columns
Tight race in October 1980 as Carter and Reagan debate
By: Jason Berggren Note: D. Jason Berggren is an associate professor of political science at Georgia Southwestern State ...
Columns
Oak Grove Cemetery: A Shelter for the Dead, A Park for the Living
BY: Evan A. Kutzler evan.kutzler@gsw.edu Most visitors have a specific destination when visiting Oak Grove Cemetery—the final resting ...
