The South has many iconic traditions, events, and historical happenings. Here are some more obscure facts about some of them. In 1970, the tiny town of Tallulah Falls, Georgia, wanted to get publicity for their town. A plan was hatched for famous tightrope walker Karl Wallenda to walk a two-inch thick cable stretched across Tallulah Gorge. The cable was around 1,000 feet … [Read more...] about Twenty Obscure Facts About the South
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A Walk Through Egypt at Emory
In 1979, all I knew of the Emory complex in Atlanta, Georgia, was Emory University, Egleston's Children's Hospital, Emory Hospital, and several miles away, Crawford Long Hospital. I took several strolls around the Emory area while waiting on a loved one who was receiving ongoing medical treatments. On one of my many walks, I stumbled into a small museum, part of which was … [Read more...] about A Walk Through Egypt at Emory
Creating Beauty and Teaching the World to Grow
You'd be hard-pressed to find a father and a son who were any more different than my Dad and me. I worshipped the ground he walked on when I was a youngster, then we grew to have different views of some things, and we let those differences get in the way of the closeness I think we both would have enjoyed. No doubt, we loved each other, and when he needed me near the end, I … [Read more...] about Creating Beauty and Teaching the World to Grow
A Tragedy Beyond Description
It goes against the natural order of things. Mothers are not supposed to bury their sons. Almost fifty-one years ago, as the year 1971 drew to a close, however, that tragedy is precisely what was about to happen to the families of six teenagers in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Two of the six were brothers, and we went to church together. Gwinnett was a very different place then … [Read more...] about A Tragedy Beyond Description
