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Family History / Rockmart / Virtual Tour

Checking Up on the Joneses

April 5, 2022

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 […]

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Virtual Tour

Loom

April 30, 2021
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Southern Authors / Virtual Tour

Book Review: Roll the Stone Away

July 24, 2020July 24, 2020

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 […]

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Southern Authors / Virtual Tour

Six Degrees: A Guest Post by Ann Hite

July 23, 2020

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 […]

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Books / Virtual Tour

Reviews & a Bit of History

July 22, 2020July 22, 2020

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 […]

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Books / Southern Authors / Virtual Tour

Ann Hite’s Black Mountain Series

July 21, 2020

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 […]

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1900s / Newspaper Articles / People / Virtual Tour

Georgia Twins are Born by Caesarean Operation

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019

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 […]

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1900s / People / Virtual Tour

Henry Witcher, Cedartown’s Wooden Toy Artist

May 31, 2019May 31, 2019

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 […]

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People / Virtual Tour

Dr. Seals L. Whitely

April 30, 2019

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 […]

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McConnell Folding Dental Chair

February 5, 2019February 6, 2019

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 […]

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