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Two Old Farts Traveling: Mundane 'housekeeping'
By Johnnie W. Lewis Have you ever considered going back in time to what life was like for your grandparents? Consider living without...

Classic City News
May 5, 20204 min read


Never Met a Stranger: Mass furloughs in my Facebook Account
By T.W. Burger I figured out a solution to too many nights trying to calm down my deep anger and despair over lots of issues I have tried...

Classic City News
May 1, 20202 min read


Two Old Farts Traveling: WE’RE QUARANTINED!
By Johnnie W. Lewis We’re quarantined north of Marietta, GA. We can’t go anywhere except to the grocery store or gas station. We can’t...

Classic City News
Apr 23, 20205 min read


Never Met a Stranger: Frankly speaking
By T.W. Burger When I was very young, I had a huge crush on Anne Frank. Like a lot of such matters of the heart, it made no sense. I had...

Classic City News
Apr 16, 20202 min read


Two Old Farts Traveling: “Glamping to the fullest"
By Johnnie W. Lewis My Better Half, Jimmy Lewis, and I have traded our house payment for a motor home payment and are traveling full-time...

Classic City News
Apr 15, 20205 min read


Galis: Come November, We Should All Be Single-issue Voters
By Leon Galis Last month, which seems like last year now, I wrote a school-marmy piece about Bernie Sanders’ socialism. That’s what I...

Classic City News
Apr 13, 20203 min read


To Hellfair and back: Hope against hope
By Shane Sims The only thing worse than losing hope is being filled with false hope. Unlike optimism, false hope is to be filled with...

Classic City News
Apr 9, 20204 min read


Never Met a Stranger: Memory amid the formulae
By T.W. Burger I remember Nell Payne, who tried valiantly to teach me Algebra in the 9th grade, in what we then called Junior High in...

Classic City News
Apr 5, 20203 min read


To Hellfair and Back: Prisons will be killing fields for the coronavirus
By Shane Sims Prisons are going to be killing grounds for the coronavirus, aka COVID-19. Although I had previously thought that, the...

Classic City News
Mar 29, 20204 min read


Never Met a Stranger: Nearly 70
By T.W. Burger Long ago, I figured I’d be dead by now. Nearly was, a few times. The woods are the same; Different orders of trees, Slight...

Classic City News
Mar 24, 20202 min read


Mokah Speaks: Maintaining Community Through COVID-19
By Mokah Jasmine Johnson About six to seven years ago, I experienced a period of homeless. My family was in a downward spiral. After...

Classic City News
Mar 21, 20203 min read


The Classic City Pétanque Club
By Rob Trevena “Le Boule Dawgs’, a group of faculty and students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia formed the...

Classic City News
Mar 19, 20204 min read


Athens area group presents Stacey Abrams with quilt
The Sowing Truth and Justice Collective presented a quilt it made to Stacey Abrams, former Democratic candidate for Georgia governor in...

Classic City News
Mar 17, 20201 min read


Never Met a Stranger: The new vacuum
By T.W. Burger The new vacuum cleaner winging its way to my house is a far cry from the monsters I and my contemporaries grew up with....

Classic City News
Mar 3, 20202 min read


To Hellfair and Back: Escaping from prison through books
By Shane Sims Prison is a dark reality that will eventually, and periodically, pull you towards an abyss of despair. Even the most...

Classic City News
Feb 21, 20204 min read


Democratic Party super delegates are a feature, not a bug
By Leon Galis Blame Facebook for this post. Got into an online conversation with a staunch Bernie Sanders supporter who had a jaundiced...

Classic City News
Feb 21, 20203 min read


Never Met a Stranger: Goodbye, Shirley
By T.W. Burger As we say down here in the South, it’s all over but the shouting. A couple of days ago I mailed out the checks, splitting...

Classic City News
Feb 14, 20204 min read


Galis: Why Bernie Sanders is still getting the side-eye
I’ve earned a dope slap. It took me way longer than it should have but it finally dawned on me that Bernie Sanders may have wanted Donald...

Classic City News
Feb 9, 20202 min read


Mokah Speaks: Protecting the vote and the need for paper ballot backups in 2020
By Mokah-Jasmine Johnson In 2018, Georgia’s electoral process was thrust into the national spotlight for its suppression of minority...

Classic City News
Feb 2, 20203 min read


Oconee Joe: The Oconee Wars, Samuel Dale
My newest article is a bit different in the way I present the history of the Oconee River. It is set during the contentious period known...

Classic City News
Feb 2, 20205 min read
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