Fields And Yields
It’s just after dawn on a Thursday morning and South Georgia farmer Brian Robinson is standing in a field of waist-high wheat pulling the grain off the top of one of the shafts. He tosses the kernels in his mouth…
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The Soccer Explosion
The seeds of a national revolution were planted 40 years ago in Atlanta, when Phil Woosnam guided a soccer team stocked with foreigners to the city’s first major league sports championship. Throughout that summer of 1968 the Atlanta Chiefs played…
Planning Without Boarders
When Catherine Ross looks at a map of the Southeastern United States, city limits and state lines start to blur and something else comes into focus. She sees the rough draft of economic salvation, a web of seamless connectivity, metropolitan…
Banking On Relationships
Looking ahead to new homes and new development planned nearby, Ron Francis made the decision earlier this year to set up temporary quarters just steps away from the Marietta Square. He took a historic building on Atlanta Street, vacant since…
The Power Years
Cathy Gaddis spent her career under the hoods of other people’s cars, a single mom raising two sons around a rotating menagerie of pets and in the pits of Oklahoma dirt tracks where she drove her own Fords – “Fords!…
Good Reviews
Georgia’s entertainment industry has come a long way since the big-screen Deliverance and small-screen The Dukes of Hazard, which more or less book-ended the 1970s and put Georgia on the minds of millions of fans. In fact, the state has…
Georgia Trend brings home the gold – 4 Green Eyeshade Awards
We are proud to announce that Georgia Trend won four top awards in the 58th annual Green Eyeshade Awards sponsored by the Society for Professional Journalists to recognize outstanding journalism in the 11-state Southeastern region. Senior Editor Jerry Grillo’s series…
The African-American Market
You don’t have to look overseas to find fast-paced growth; it’s right here in America’s multicultural economy. In 1990, the nation’s African-American buying power was $318 billion. Today, blacks have $845 billion in spending power, and by 2012, the number…
Passing Sensation
Hurricane Katrina is long gone but not forgotten – not as far as Edmund (Zeke) Bratkowski is concerned. The former University of Georgia passing sensation delivered food, clothing and furniture to the needy just as he once delivered touchdown passes…
The Doctor Dilemma
Charles Kemp grew up in rural southwest Georgia, on the frontier of primary healthcare, traveling from farm to farm with his father, a veterinarian based in Camilla. Kemp is 24, a third-year student in the Mercer University School of Medicine.…
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