Georgia is called the Peach State, but the fruit has been part of our history long before there was a Georgia. Franciscan monks introduced peaches to St. Simons and Cumberland Island in the 16th century. Cherokee Indians grew peaches here in the 18th century. Raphael Moses, a Columbus planter, was marketing peaches in Georgia in […]
Learn More – Georgia Peach: Official State Fruit “Peaches.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-962&sug=y Sweet Georgia Peaches: http://gapeaches.org/about/rich-history-of-ga-peach The University of Georgia Cooperative Extension: http://extension.uga.edu/agriculture/ag- fruits-vegetables/peaches/ GeorgiaInfo: http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/gapeach.htm
A Masters from Georgia. Not a degree in Athens — a golf tournament in Augusta. And it was a hit off the first tee. After golfer Bobby Jones retired, he and businessman Clifford Roberts developed a national landmark. Jones brought credibility, while Roberts had business savvy. Jones and noted golf course architect Alister Mackenzie designed […]
Richard Wayne Penniman is not a name most people associate with the beginning of rock n’ roll, but few people did more to make rock one of the hearthstones of 20th-century American culture than the man known as Little Richard. Penniman was born into a family of 12 children in Macon and grew up singing […]
She was one of the first prominent white Southerners to denounce segregation, and she was a controversial figure all her life. Lillian Smith was born in Florida in 1897 and moved to Georgia as a teenager. After a stint in China, she began to speak out against Jim Crow, calling segregation “spiritual lynching.” From her […]
Learn More – Eliza Frances Andrews Eliza Frances Andrews, A Family Secret, ed. S. Kittrell Rushing (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005). Eliza Frances Andrews, Journal of a Georgia Woman, 1870-1872, ed. S. Kittrell Rushing (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002). Eliza Frances Andrews, The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865, ed. Spencer Bidwell […]
