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Mark Pifer
Hidden History of Old Atlanta
9781467146074
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%"Old Atlanta'? may conjure images of Southern belles and Civil War ruination, but the full story stretches back millennia.
From centuries of Native American settlements that ended with the removal of the Creeks to the rough and ready pioneer days, the area was rich in history long before it was called Atlanta. Author Mark Pifer unfolds a rich saga, including forgotten details from the struggles of African Americans and new immigrants while noting modern locations bursting with tales that predate the City in the Forest's rise amid the treetops.
Lisa M. Russell
Lost Mills of Fulton County
9781467153584
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Labor conflicts, arrests, espionage—it was all there at the once ubiquitous mills of Fulton County.
Employee records and snatches of paper prove workers spied on each other. Company owners were paranoid about labor unions taking over. Copious documentation, unearthed here by author Lisa M. Russell, brings the workaday drama back to life. These mills sustained families, but exploitation was far from uncommon. When mill workers finally went on strike, there was hell to pay. The company bosses yanked strikers from their shacks. With the help of Governor Talmadge, the National Guard arrested working women with their children. They marched these criminals to a former WWI prisoner of war camp that once held enemy German soldiers. Hard to believe this was happening in and around Atlanta in the early 1900s.
Dr. Alan N. Brown
Georgia Legends & Lore
9781467151788
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Settle in for a juicy bushel of Peach State bafflement.
Turn a metaphorical shovel of red Georgia clay to find a world teeming with inexplicable, head-scratching mystery. The legends here predate the state’s founding by hundreds of years, when Native people settled in and began grappling with the land. Now treasure hunters ply Civil War sites for the Confederacy’s lost treasure, with spectral soldiers galloping nearby. Hairy beasts lope through dark woods, while the night sky above bustles with disconcerting activity, like the UFO once spotted by Jimmy Carter. In this Georgia, psychics help convict murderers. The super-strict and thoroughly deceased former owner of Savannah’s Telfair Museum punishes rule breakers, and a ten-foot ’squatch emits a pungent stench at Minnehaha Falls. Join folklorist Alan Brown on a jaunt through the most confounding elements of Georgia’s long history.
