Peaches, peanuts, poultry: Georgia has a lot of all of them. But Pickens County has the most crystalline marble of any place in the world. One of the most highly prized minerals, it’s in 60 percent of the monuments in Washington D.C. Native Americans used north Georgia marble hundreds of years before it was first […]

He would box, but he would not fight. At the height of the Vietnam War in 1967, Muhammad Ali was drafted. Declaring himself a conscientous objector, he refused to serve. With his case on appeal, Ali was banned from boxing by several of the sports governing bodies. He hadn’t floated like a butterfly or stung […]

Vocabulary – Georgia Marble Company Crystalline Marble Noun a hard, crystalline or granular, metamorphic limestone, white or variously colored and sometimes streaked or mottled, Minerals Noun a naturally existing substance that is mined or extracted from the ground Commercially Adverb In business terms in or for profit making Quarried Verb To get stone or other […]