CLASSIC CITY NEWS

By T.W. Burger It is often true that we do not take full advantage of the technologies available to us. Nowhere is this more true than in...

By T.W. Burger I would have loved to meet Joe Delaney. Finding Joe’s place was dumb luck, really. Most of my attention had been given to...

By T.W. Burger It is not a very large cemetery, tucked away between the back end of a large brick church and a row of some houses that...

By Eddie Whitlock You don’t know people very often. You know a little slice of a little facet of most of them. There are a few you get to...

By Eddie Whitlock We are the monsters. At least, that’s my goal. ​It’s that time of year. It’s my favorite time of year: Halloween. ​When...

By T.W. Burger I could not help but note that the man extracting honey from the combs in the Langsroth frames looked almost bearlike;...

By T. W. Burger Tattoos have probably been around nearly as long as we’ve had skin. I don’t have any particular problem with them, though...

By Bill Crane In looking forward and embracing our future yet to come I often find benefit in looking back. One of my favorite quotes...

By T. W. Burger Dan Stoneburner and I walked along the two tracks of what passed for a road on that barrier island off the coast of...

By Leon Galis The state of Georgia’s Election Board, which nobody outside the state and hardly anybody in it had ever heard of before...

By Michael H. McLendon Today when Athenians are pinching pennies to pay for groceries and their electric bills, our mayor and...

By T.W. Burger We hear a lot about heroes in these days of endless wars. I’m afraid that we’ve had so much war in recent years that we...

By T.W. Burger Sometimes, the best adventures come about when you’re busy doing something else. For example, some years ago, we got a...

By T.W. Burger One of the dangers of becoming a superannuated human being, i.e., an old guy, is that one finds oneself becoming...

By T.W. Burger I had this thought long ago that I needed to figure out what I believed. Often in conversation or writing, I would find...

By Robert B. Covi Donald Trump seems afraid to debate Kamala Harris.  His “any time, any place” bravado has slipped into a petulant...

By T.W. Burger For Dave Brubeck, 1920-2012, and for Joan. Funny thing earworms. You know what I mean, when you get a tune stuck in your...

By T.W. Burger Charles “Ches” McCartney, aka The Goat Man, had been a personal hero of mine ever since I was a boy growing up in Athens...

Someone’s onetime home being swallowed up by the relentless growth of kudzu recently caught the attention of equally relentless...

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