At the turn of the 20th century, Chicago attorney Paul Harris noted how admired a friend and fellow attorney was in the community. It occurred to him that if this notoriety could happen at an individual level, the strength could be multiplied into a force if recreated in a group. I couldn’t help but feel [...]
Each generation has several events etched into memory where they can recall not only where they were when they heard the news, but what they were doing, as well. For my parents’ generation, it was the assassination of JFK. The generation before that remembers clearly the day that our country entered WWII, December 11, 1941 [...]
The Ogeechee River is a very powerful and constantly changing river. Ask any seasoned boat operator who hits a sandbar, “What happened?” and the first thing you will hear is, “That sand bar was not there the last time I passed this way.” Now, this may or may not be true, but we all know [...]
HISTORY OF THE YMCA
The YMCA may feel as American as little league baseball, but it was actually founded in London in 1844 by George Williams. Unhealthy social conditions in big cities grew with the boom of the Industrial Revolution. He formed a Bible study and prayer group to save the numerous boys who ran the [...]
During Black History Month we should reflect on what has been, we evaluate what is, and we hope for what will come. We discuss the eff ects of greed and imperialism on the individual and we rejoice in how far we have come in regards to inequality and racism. We focus on fi- gures who have [...]
Bryan Neck acquired its name right after Bryan County was created by the Georgia General Assembly in December 1793; it was named for Revolutionary War patriot Jonathan Bryan. It was generally used to provide a geographical reference to the scattered plantation families who were cultivating rice, cotton, and provision crops in the lower end of [...]
Contributing writer, Heather Grant, recently sat down with three of J.F. Gregory’s granddaughters and here, shares their childhood memories of this quiet, but influential man.
“I remember as a little girl trying to sell Girl Scout cookies to Henry Ford,” laughs Margaret Aliffi, granddaughter of J.F. Gregory. “Back then they only had two kinds of cookies [...]
The words of the great Savannah lyricist, Johnny Mercer, would be particularly applicable to those prosperous, flourishing days of the late 1920s on coastal Georgia. “The days of wine and roses, laugh and run away like a child at play.” The song lyrics evoke affluence, carefree spirits, and yachting trips along the Intra-coastal Waterway between [...]
There are all kinds of adventures: adventures you are planning, adventures you have experienced in the past and enjoy revisiting, good adventures, bad adventures, but seldom do we ever get to experience an adventure of historical proportions. This rare type of adventure for three young Richmond Hill residents happened in 1980, during a time when [...]
“Are we going to leave? Are we going to stay?” I can still hear the urgency in my parents’ voices as they struggled with making the right decision. A local weather station had just announced a hurricane was barreling directly for the Georgia coastline. If it continued on its path, Richmond Hill would definitely be [...]
