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 […]
Southern Authors / Virtual Tour
Book Review: Roll the Stone Away
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 […]
Southern Authors / Virtual Tour
Six Degrees: A Guest Post by Ann Hite
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 […]
Books / Virtual Tour
Reviews & a Bit of History
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 […]
Books / Southern Authors / Virtual Tour
Ann Hite’s Black Mountain Series
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 […]
1900s / Newspaper Articles / People / Virtual Tour
Georgia Twins are Born by Caesarean Operation
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 […]
1900s / People / Virtual Tour
Henry Witcher, Cedartown’s Wooden Toy Artist
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 […]
People / Virtual Tour
Dr. Seals L. Whitely
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 […]
Virtual Tour
McConnell Folding Dental Chair
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 […]