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OLD GLORY AND THE FULL MOON by scottbthompsonsrOct 07, 2009 | 2 
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I took this shot of a full moon and the flag over Home Depot in Dublin, Georgia on the evening of October 3, 2009. | 19 | 
MAYOR JIM PETERSON, Exposing the Klan by scottbthompsonsrOct 07, 2009 | 0 | 24 |
MAYOR JIM PETERSON Exposing the Ku Klux Klan SOPERTON DEFENDANTS FREED - Three defendants (top) were tried at Soperton, Ga. yesterday on charges of disorderly conduct and loitering as a result of Mayor James Peterson snatching Ku Klux masks from their faces. The defendants, who were freed of the ... | 24 | 
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, GEORGE WERLEY? by scottbthompsonsrSep 29, 2009 | 2 | 23 |
George Werley George Werley grew up in a baseball town during the World War II years. St. Louis was the home of the Cardinals and the Browns, though the latter never proved to be a winner. In three of the four summers of the war, the Cardinals won the National League pennant. When he was g... | 23 |
MEANWHILE IN DRY BRANCH by scottbthompsonsr
Sep 22, 2009 | 1 | 20 |
Tales of a Twiggs Town They call this place Dry Branch, Georgia. There hasn't been a flood here in millions of years since the Atlantic Ocean pulled away from the fall line. But, eight to a dozen decades ago, the liquor flowed freely to the lovers of moonshine, while the teetotalers took no... | 20 | 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAXON HEIGHTS! by scottbthompsonsrSep 19, 2009 | 0 | 21 |
HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY, SAXON HEIGHTS SCHOOL! For all of the last one hundred years it has been there. Sitting on a hill under the shade of a canopy of mighty oaks, Saxon Heights Elementary School has been the place where children of Dublin have gone to learn their ABCs, reading, writing and ar... | 21 | 
GREAT BLUE HERON TAKING A SUNBATH by scottbthompsonsrSep 13, 2009 | 1 | 21 |
I took this photograph of a Great Blue Heron taking a sunbath on the banks of the pond at Fairview Park Hospital on September 8, 2009. | 21 |
CON WEDDINGTON - The Great Debater by scottbthompsonsr
Sep 12, 2009 | 0 | 22 |
CON WEDDINGTON "The Great Debater" In Con Weddington's day, the sport of debating was usually reserved for only the most promising, brilliant and fine young men. To be a collegiate debater, and a champion one at that, guaranteed that one would rise to the level of most elite of the er... | 22 | 
GOVERNOR JOHN S. BARRY by scottbthompsonsrSep 05, 2009 | 1 | 24 |
GOV. JOHN S. BARRY A Yankee Governor in a Georgia Court How could a New Hampshire born school teacher and a future Michigan governor wind up teaching public school in Irwinton, Georgia? And, how could he be a member of the bar in a small southern village, where the barristers were all Georgia... | 24 | 
PIPEVINE SWALLOWTAIL by scottbthompsonsrAug 31, 2009 | 1 | 22 |
I took this photograph of a beautiful blue and black swallowtail flittering about the lantanta growing along the sidewalk of River Walk Park along the banks of the Oconee River in Dublin, Georgia. | 22 |
THE RED SUMMER - CHEATING THE HANGMAN by scottbthompsonsr
Aug 25, 2009 | 0 | 23 |
THE RED SUMMER - Cheating the Hangman Part 4 of 4 John Cooper knew that if his client had any chance of being found innocent, he had to put him on the stand to make a statement without any cross examination by the State. Cummings gently walked to the stand to make an unsworn statement to the ju... | 23 |