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1 min read 2021-08-13 19:00:00

How I Identified The Earliest Surviving Film Footage of African American Baseball Players

“Clip from a home movie of a baseball game between African American employees of the Pebble Hill and Chinquapin Plantations, Georgia, 1919?”

1 min read 2021-06-18 19:00:00

It all began with a one-sided friendly competitive thought – if Augusta could do it, so could Atlanta. This immediately came to mind after

1 min read 2021-04-30 22:00:00

Photo by Sharon Hughes for Echo of Nature Behind every one-of-a-kind, handcrafted item on Etsy, there’s a person with an equally unique story to

11 min read 2021-01-25 21:23:18

I could make a few quippy, passing remarks here about how 2020, on the whole, had me longing for what some might call "precedented times."

10 min read 2020-12-31 19:30:00

In such a rollercoaster of a year, it's nice to find a moment of normalcy. For the last five Decembers or so, I have done exactly what I did right

11 min read 2020-11-11 19:30:00

To the chagrin of several dear people in my life, I’m a bit of an over-planner — but it’s not my fault. I can remember the carefree weekends of

2 min read 2020-09-24 19:00:00

My interest in Georgia photographers and visiting photographers who worked in Georgia, as well as their associates, began in the late 1970s.

2 min read 2020-06-17 19:00:18

Back at the end of April, during the early days of self-isolating (coronavirus pandemic), I was following a writer on a Facebook group called

8 min read 2020-04-30 00:00:00

At the beginning of March, I had just spent the last five months coordinating with dozens of teams planning for our annual event, Digital Sales &

6 min read 2020-04-09 04:59:33

“We love working with you, but we just don’t have the budget to continue,” is the business equivalent of getting dumped because you’re not

14 min read 2020-02-04 01:00:00

I can’t even remember when I first opened the pregnancy apps to change my settings. Maybe I received a push notification that first afternoon

5 min read 2020-01-28 01:00:00

The day started just like any other. Six-thirty in the morning. My alarm went off. I was so groggy you’d think my eyelids were tied down. I had no

3 min read 2019-12-18 20:00:04

Southern Israelite, December 12, 1947 Newspapers have always been one of my favorite sources of work, and the DLG Georgia Historic Newspapers

2 min read 2019-08-21 18:00:44

In 2017, Piedmont College Library was fortunate to receive a grant from the Digital Library of Georgia. This grant provided us with training and

2 min read 2019-07-17 18:55:05

Old Georgia Homes is a blog that began in 2015 as a hobby for me as a Georgia history and old house enthusiast and has since grown to 60,000 social