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- Sunday, May 19, 2013 Gainesville, Georgia
Archive By Section - Johnny Vardeman's column
When schools became serious about merging
The subject of consolidation of Hall County and Gainesville schools rarely comes up these days, although it has been discussed numerous times over the past few decades. There is no apparent groundswell of support for such a merger.
1960s decade began changes, crucial times
The 1960s are remembered mostly as a chaotic period in American history, marked by assassinations of major public figures, desegregation and civil rights struggles.
Moonshiners, revenue feud slowed down
While moonshining, making illegal whisky, is supposed to be just a memory, every now and then you read about a liquor still being discovered or seized or a couple of moonshiners being arrested. The moonshine trade might be near nothing nowadays, but there could be old-timers back in the hills who still make their own for their own consumption. You occasionally hear of somebody getting a Mason jar of peach brandy or some other ...
State officials’ pay was puny a century ago
People seem more concerned than ever these days about how taxes are spent on the local, state and national levels.
1899 blizzard blew misery through area
As the extremely hot summer wanes, we can wonder what kind of winter it will be. As extremely cold as it was warm?
New’ City Hall didn’t last as long as hoped
The marble building next to Gainesville's Georgia Mountains Center near one end of the new pedestrian bridge across Jesse Jewell Parkway continues to bear the name "City Hall," although numerous city offices are in the Joint Administration Building next door.
Book teaches youngsters local history
There are plenty of history books and resources available on Gainesville and Hall County. Local history buffs down through the years, including William Hosch, Lester Hosch, Sybil McRay, Ruth Waters, Gordon Sawyer and James Dorsey, preserved piles of information about the community's past. But, Laura Rauch Sumner decided, there wasn't anything geared for children. Her parents, Sam and Pat Rauch, challenged her to put something together on Gainesville's history for the younger set. "I grew ...
Fish tale took good ole boy to stardom
Howard Samples has a unique autograph written in the floor of the carport in his Forsyth County home: "Junior S., 1983."
Bill Sellers was a big fan of trains, rains and temperatures
For family entertainment, Bill Sellers used to pile his wife Miriam and two sons Bruce and Billy into their car and track down a train.
Yet another early version of Nacoochee tale
There have been as many versions of the legend of Nacoochee as there have been cows grazing the fields of that lush White County valley.
Farmer’s first plane earns more notice
They had the annual Dyer-Souther family reunion at Choestoe Baptist Church in Union County a couple of weeks ago.
College puts together full history of lake
Ben Fouts believes he was the first person to water ski barefooted on Lake Lanier. When the lake was first rising behind Buford Dam, Fouts' father was pulling him on skis behind a boat in the Sardis-Chestatee area. Ben dropped one ski, then another until he was skiing barefooted. This was in 1957 or 1958 when trees still poked their tops above the surface as the lake filled up. "You had to be careful to ...
Hall Countians put Cherokees on trail west
Hall Countians and other North Georgians played important parts in the removal of the Cherokee Indians westward to Oklahoma on what became called the Trail of Tears.
Real cowboy rounded up stray cattle
W.F. (Dub) Westmoreland Jr. didn't just play cowboy like many of his peers when he was a child. His grandparents, Marvin and Mary Nell Autry, had him driving cows on their Clark's Bridge Road farm in Hall County when he was 4 years old.
How would lake visionaries respond today?
Really, it shouldn't have taken a court case to figure out that local, state and federal officials intended for Lake Lanier to be used as a water supply for neighboring communities.
Articles by Section - Johnny Vardeman's column
CD package relates stories of area locations
Johnny Kytle was a native of Clermont in Hall County and a pioneer daredevil pilot who carried the mail between Atlanta and Richmond, Va.
CD package relates stories of area places like Dip
Johnny Kytle was a native of Clermont in Hall County and a pioneer daredevil pilot who carried the mail between Atlanta and Richmond, Va.
Prior Street was named for Hall judge
Prior Street is one of Gainesville's most important streets. It connects the northside of town to the southside. It runs from Hunter Street near St. Paul United Methodist Church on Summit Street, to City Park and the Civic Center.
Hero reticent about his heroics during World War II
Bob Dollar said Jason Nix was an ordinary man, the kind who goes about his work and lives humbly and without much fanfare or attention.
Poodle at large: Owner seeks pet lost for months
If you'd lost a dog six months ago, chances are you would have given up finding it by now and moved on.
Family’s lives rotated around a 5-and-dime
You don't see many 5-and-10-cent stores anymore like McLellan's, which was such an anchor in downtown Gainesville over several decades.
Mill villagers had hard life, yet had fun
With no television, limited transportation and very little money, children growing up in the Gainesville Mill village in the 1940s, '50s and beyond "made do."
Do diamonds remain hidden in Hall’s soils?
A century and a half ago this month, the Civil War began officially with the shelling of Fort Sumter, but as embroiled as the nation was in the turmoil of the times, Hall Countians had diamonds on their minds and in their mines.
Lawyer lost friends fighting for Cherokees
One of the little known, but most controversial figures in Hall County history was a lawyer named William H. Underwood.
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