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Category: Virtual Tour

Checking Up on the Joneses

April 5, 2022
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| Family History, Rockmart, Virtual Tour

Article by Leonora Ferguson Mintz, 1998 For Seaborn Jones Memorial Week I am checking up on the Joneses, not trying to keep up with them. When I was a child, I heard, and later read, stories of George Washington, Daniel Boone, Ben Franklin, and other national heroes, but I honestly believe, as I think back, […]

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Loom

April 30, 2021
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| Virtual Tour

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Book Review: Roll the Stone Away

July 24, 2020
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| Southern Authors, Virtual Tour

Readers, this wraps up our week-long VIRTUAL BOOK EVENT for Ann Hite’s Roll the Stone Away! Previous posts: Author Interview, BLACK MOUNTAIN series, Reviews & a History, and a new Author Guest Post. “Hite gives voice to Southern Appalachian culture – the haunted landscape of hills and hollows that make perfect habitats for spirits of […]

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Six Degrees: A Guest Post by Ann Hite

July 23, 2020
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On the 4th day of our Virtual Event with Ann Hite, the author relates a genealogy trail she discovered while researching! On our previous posts this week, you’ll find an Interview with the Author and description of her memoir, a list of her Black Mountain series, and some reviews and Depression Era history. Tomorrow we’ll […]

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Reviews & a Bit of History

July 22, 2020
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If you missed the previous posts, you can find them here along with links to purchase the books: Interview with Ann Hite & Black Mountain Series Books Today we are posting reviews of the author’s middle two books in the Black Mountain series (reviews written by Arleigh Ordoyne) and an Author Guest Post by Ann […]

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Ann Hite’s Black Mountain Series

July 21, 2020
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This is day 2 of our week-long Virtual Event for Georgia author Ann Hite’s latest book–a memoir titled Roll the Stone Away. Yesterday we posted an in depth interview with the author (read it here), and today we are highlighting her fictional series. Ghost on Black Mountain (Book 1) Amazon Link / Check a Local […]

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Georgia Twins are Born by Caesarean Operation

July 5, 2019
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| 1900s, Newspaper Articles, People, Virtual Tour

Mrs. C. H. Wray and Children of Cedartown, GA What was probably the first Caesarean operation, bringing twins into the world, in the history of surgery, was performed in Atlanta on January 6, 1909, by Dr. W. B. Lingo, at the Hospital Medical college. This fact was brought out yesterday as the result of a […]

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Henry Witcher, Cedartown’s Wooden Toy Artist

May 31, 2019
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Rome-News Tribune, 1983 “Like many other good men, Henry Witcher first got his motivation from a woman and a rolling pin. Just not in the customary manner so often associated with women and rolling pins. Only the product of that motivation–a woodcraft that perhaps could be described as “whittling and piddling”–could be any less customary…unless […]

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Dr. Seals L. Whitely

April 30, 2019
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Dr. Whitely was born in Rome, GA, in 1880, the son of Charles Hiram Whitely and Mary Joseph Downer Whitely. When he was six years old, he and his family moved to Cedartown. He received a masters degree in pharmacy in 1904. Two years later, he graduated from Tulane University Medical School. In 1912, he […]

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McConnell Folding Dental Chair

February 5, 2019
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McConnell Folding Dental Chairs were designed for traveling dentists. 1900 From a vintage ad: “A stump has some advantages as a Dental Chair in an emergency. It is strong and cheap, but it is heavy and unhandy to move, and would be more convenient and comfortable if it had less attachments and more adjustment. The […]

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