Southeast

Screven County: Right Place, Right Time

Sylvania is one of those small Georgia towns (pop. 2,541) where everybody knows your name, and if they don’t they soon will – and they’ll know the name of everyone in your family, your history, your likes and dislikes; and…

Liberty County: A Healthy Mix

You’ll have to forgive the people of Liberty County for thinking they’re in the right place at the right time. When much of the rest of the nation is faced with the prospect of a slowing economy and a tumbling…

Savannah: Intellectual Capital

City boosters have long promoted Savannah’s image as the romantic city by the sea, a colonial village of mossy oaks and fragrant magnolias that beckons visitors – and their dollars. But Savannah was carved out of marsh and swamp almost…

Waycross/Ware County: Phoenix Rising

The citizens of Ware County certainly don’t need a poet to remind them April is the cruelest month. This past April, locals saw the eruption of wildfires that quickly spread through drought-dried timberland, threatening 1,800 buildings. The fires destroyed and…

Camden Couty: Ship And Shore

For generations, Camden County was characterized by polar opposites – a gritty paper mill with hardworking employees in St. Marys and the Eden-like Cumberland Island, which a century ago served as a playground for the wealthy. Today Cumberland Island is…

Effingham County: The Wheels Of Progress

Riding the back roads of Effingham County on a pleasant spring afternoon, a motorist notes the burst of color from the wisteria, azaleas and dogwoods that dot the 237,000 forested acres (mostly pines and oaks) in this still largely rural…