6 posts tagged “georgia”
parking lot next to the earl in east atlanta village.
saturday afternoon walk on oglethorpe avenue, savannah.
"everything will be ok"
street
sign in savannah, georgia. i saw this sign while taking a stroll to
walk off a big brunch i had in savannah one recent morning.
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i'm
back from a week long camping/biking/hiking trip on cumberland island.
there were many amazing things about this trip from the 30 mile bike
ride from sea camp to high point back to dungeness (started on the main
road came back on the beach) to seeing the first african baptist church
and the ruins of my ancestor's houses for the first time to getting a
tour of the teeny cumberland island museum...here is a photo of the
church which has relatives names on the cornerstore. yes, it is that
little church where jfk jr. and caroline bissett got married but so
much more than that...my grandmother and other older relatives have
passed on so many stories about this area that i felt like i knew it
before i arrived and when i did get there, it was all so familiar. in
most of the guidebooks, including the brochure issued by the national
park service, one of my distant cousins is mentioned and pictured,
george merrow. he and his wife were the last blacks to live on
cumberland. all of the private property now is in the hands of
descendants of the wealthy white families or folks who had sense enough
to buy land in the mid-70s from old timers. it is a shame because
blacks owned a lot of property but the transfer of land/taking over by
the feds was so swift that enough people didn't have time to act to
save their lots. to see more photos of cumberland, visit my vacation photostream.
My cousin giving me the thumbs up before he races a RIMO kart in a competition at Andretti Indoor Karting
in Roswell. I had no idea how many people were into this stuff--coming
every weekend to race, traveling to other tracks, joining leagues....It
is like miniature Formula One racing
early yesterday morning (before 10 a.m.) in south georgia on I-75 south. who knew that playboy had an outlet store!
