Barbara Prosser sees a bright red chassis in the automotive learning amphitheater of the Effingham College and Career Academy and envisions a Model A Roadster emblazoned with the school emblem. “It can be used for parades or to advertise out…
When travel is as easy as jumping in a car and driving a few hours to try someplace new, how do you get people to put your town on their must-see list? How do you draw the tourists who will…
One of the newer residents of Gainesville lounges quietly near the intersection of Academy and Green streets. Her name is Lucile. She weighs 2,200 pounds, is 14 feet long and nearly 8 feet high. Believed to be the world’s largest…
“Up” is the operative word in Columbus, and not just because of the new zip line that will whisk brave souls across the Chattahoochee later this year. A desolate area on a bluff overlooking the river is ripe for revitalization…
In a year that saw World War I break out, the Panama Canal open and the first Tarzan of the Apes book published, 135 commissioners of roads and revenues in Georgia laid the groundwork for an organization that is indispensable…
Every citizen knows the conventional wisdom that has defined our state since Reconstruction: There is Atlanta, and then there is the rest of Georgia. Increasingly, though, the other, smaller cities are thrumming with innovation and a renewed sense of camaraderie,…
In a resounding demonstration of Columbia County’s drawing power, Thunder over Augusta, the annual Armed Forces Day celebration, crossed county lines to relocate to Evans Towne Center Park in 2012. Last year the park also began hosting “Drive for Show,…
In this slice of middle Georgia where Flannery O’Connor wrote “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the narrative 60 years later is “A Good Company is Hard to Find.” Baldwin County and Milledgeville are struggling to bring in new…
Athens-Clarke County is brimming with so much vitality that it is experiencing what Mayor Nancy Denson calls “the reverse broken window syndrome.” “If you’re on a street where there are a few broken windows, next thing you know, you…
Workforce education and development starting practically at birth characterize Carroll County, whose holistic approach helped make it the only county in the state invited to join the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s 18-month-long Pathways to Prosperity project. The project…
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