Art and Aspiration
Aspiration painting by Robert Arthur Wilson What do conservation, history, and photography have in common with one another? When one...
top of page
Search
Webmaster
Feb 6, 20233 min read
The National Forest Serial Killer, Huddle House, and the Dawsonville Wildlife Management Area
61-year-old Gary Michael Hilton, a.k.a. The National Forest Serial Killer, finally got caught in 2008 after committing a grizzly series...
734 views0 comments
Webmaster
Feb 2, 20232 min read
The Murder and Exhumation of Chief James Vann
Chief Vann was a controversial figure. Born in the 1760s, the half Scotsman/half Cherokee, grew to become a wealthy businessman,...
308 views0 comments
Webmaster
Jan 31, 20233 min read
The Griffeth Pendley Dogtrot Ax Murder
In 1877, a one-story dogtrot-style home was built off of the old Dawsonville-Jasper Road (present-day Cove Road). Over the hill and...
646 views0 comments
Webmaster
Jan 30, 20231 min read
The Old Coward/Fitts/Hendrix House
Standing not more than a mile away from Long Swamp Baptist Church is the old Coward' homestead. The Cowards had moved here (then...
90 views0 comments
Webmaster
Jan 25, 20233 min read
The Curious and Somewhat Humorous Effects of My Traumatic Brain Injury.
It has been about two months since I suffered a traumatic brain injury from a freak automobile accident. In the days immediately...
19 views0 comments
Webmaster
Jan 25, 20231 min read
The Unseen Conductor
The woods are vast, deep, and dark. The wind blows hurriedly through the trees. The branches respond with crackling bark - in communion...
12 views0 comments
Webmaster
Jan 20, 20231 min read
Another Chance
Death challenged my being alive and stunned me into an artificial sleep. And when I awoke in my drive, my cuts and bruises were far too...
12 views0 comments
Webmaster
Jan 9, 20232 min read
Young Potts Cemetery
In 1829, a man named Young Potts moved to Dawson County from South Carolina. He hit the ground running and made a small fortune in his...
104 views0 comments
Christopher
Dec 2, 20222 min read
John Dilbeck and the lost town of Johntown (Dawson County)
1886 Map with Johntown, Georgia John Dilbeck was born in 1787 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Around 1839 he moved to Dawson...
419 views0 comments
bottom of page