Johnny Vardeman's column
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A short street, Woodsmill’s past is rich When Gainesville officials announced during Truman Day festivities July 4, 1945, they were planning to pave the road to the golf course, they might have been talking about Woodsmill Road. |
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Truman Day was a giant July 4 event as war waned World War II in Europe had ended two months earlier, but the Japanese continued to fight Americans and their allies furiously in the Pacific. |
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Do we need more farmers in the Capitol? Citizens sometimes complain that Georgia’s legislature would get more done if there weren’t so many lawyers involved. |
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Rebel fired first cannon of Civil War If Vince Evans had enough time before he retires as superintendent of Gainesville’s Alta Vista Cemetery, he would have a story about everybody who’s buried there. |
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Mining assayer Stephenson favored feet over horses in 1800s Dr. Matthew F. Stephenson was an important, but sometimes overlooked, figure in North Georgia’s history. |
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What it was like as 1950s came to end So what was the Christmas season like half a century ago in Northeast Georgia, say 1959? |
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Liquid assets drew tourists to Hall County area It’s been well documented how popular North Georgia and Hall County in particular were as health resorts during the late 1800s and the early 1900s. |
