Gena Abraham wasn’t like the other little girls. Growing up in a house filled with her older sisters’ dolls, she was more likely to sit on the floor playing project manager, building make-believe homes and cities, shaping her vocational infrastructure.…
Robert Sumichrast is grounded in a reality where physics, philosophy and business converge. He’s an academic, a scientist interested in how things work in the world, and humanity’s place in it. And he thinks he can guide the Terry College…
For decades the only retirees found on or near Georgia’s college and university campuses were rumpled professors shuffling into the library or graying, but still diehard, alumni and sports fans. Today there’s a new – and in some ways energizing…
If the glories of this spring’s camellia crop are still fresh in your mind – or better yet, in your yard – and have inspired you to learn more about the plant, you’re in luck. Georgia is home to the…
A few years before she became governor of Texas, Ann Richards gave the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. She began by wryly noting the historic scarcity of women at the podium. “But if you give…
Bonita Williams has spent the last half of her 65 years painfully watching Dublin’s Southside neighborhood, where she grew up, slowly lose the businesses, shops and homes so prominent in her memories of childhood. “When I was growing up in…
One of the reddest counties in a red state is changing its color. Not to blue, that would be too abrupt a shift, but to green – and doing it with the help of a new airport, something that hasn’t…
When banker Bruce Knighton looks south from Lavonia, he sees change coming up Interstate 85. In counties to the south, subdivisions and big box stores are spreading, changing what was once rural and isolated into something entirely new and different.…
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