2024 southeast swing – part 9: gospel singing and Montana’s soccer team
At our state park campground, Barney met a fellow camper who told him about a gospel song-fest that was going to happen on Saturday afternoon. So before we drove into...
2024 southeast swing – part 11: the 2nd largest mental institution in the world was in Milledgeville
Even though I’ve lived in Georgia for almost 25 years now and have heard off and on about the state hospital in Milledgeville, I really didn’t know much about it....
2024 southeast swing – part 12: from a capitol building to a military college
When the Civil War was over, Georgia legislature decided to move the capitol 98 miles north from to Atlanta. One of the reasons for the move that we’ve heard and...
2024 southeast swing – part 13: Georgia’s Old Governor’s Mansion (the way it looked in 1851)
The Old Governor’s Mansion in Milledgeville was completed in 1839 and was used by the governors until the Civil War. What we’ll see in this post is what the mansion...