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Author Index
                         
Grace F. Burridge
Jim Fowler (b. 1930)
Jim Fowler, a native of Dougherty County, enjoyed a long career as co-host and then host of the popular...
John A. Burrison
Brunswick Stew
Brunswick, Georgia, claims to be the place of origin for Brunswick stew. A twenty-five-gallon iron pot...
Crackers
The epithethas been applied in a derogatory way, like, to rural, non-elite white southerners,...
Folk Arts and Crafts: Overview
One of Georgia's great riches is its heritage of folk art, but different meanings for that term have...
Folk Pottery
Georgia is famed for its bountiful clay resources. It is not the state's ubiquitous red clay that has...
Folklife: Overview
Georgia folklife includes a wide range of community-shared, informally learned traditions, from the African...
Storytelling Traditions
One of the distinguishing features of southern culture is an "oratorical aesthetic." Speech artistry,...
Lisa Burton
Darton State College
Darton State College, established in April 1963 as Albany Junior College, is a four-year college of the...
Ronald E. Butchart
Freedmen's Education during Reconstruction
From the first days of their freedom, Georgia's freed slaves demanded formal education. Legislation passed...
Susie King Taylor (1848-1912)
Susie Baker King Taylor was the first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves...
Charles T. Butler
Alma Thomas (1891-1978)
A prominent abstract painter of the 1960s and 1970s, Alma Thomas was the first African American woman...
Columbus Museum
The Columbus Museum, serving more than 90,000 visitors annually, is a major artistic center for west...
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