Archive for January 4th, 2012
A Bulldog Showcase
By Don Nelson “It was a natural thing for me to be a Bulldog fan,” said Barbara Lucas, who grew up in Watkinsville and married former UGA lineman standout Cicero Lucas nearly 49 years ago. Cicero played as a Georgia football guard and fullback from 1955 through 1958 and won UGA’s William K. Jenkins Award [...]
Meat-n-three diners fill the gap for mother’s home cooking
By Joe VanHoose Harold Henderson has one of the few soul food restaurants open on Sundays, but the after-church crowd isn’t driving the business. “The church crowd’s good, but college students are who fill this place up,” said Henderson, the owner of Food for the Soul on Broad Street. “They come in here looking [...]
Wired for Art: profile on Noah Saunders
Wired for art Noah Saunders bends his work to create human expression By John W. English “Wire is an untapped medium,” Noah Saunders began the conversation in his home-gallery-studio in Normaltown. “I like the way wire feels and that I can bend it into human expression.” Saunders’ living room walls are covered with his [...]
Take a Day Trip to Lexington and Crawford
By Don Nelson Anyone seeking a weekend day trip that doesn’t require a lot of driving but does offer a two-for-one deal can’t go wrong heading to Oglethorpe County and visiting Crawford and Lexington. Only about a 12- and 15-mile drive respectively east from Athens along U.S. Highway 78, Crawford and Lexington — Oglethorpe’s county [...]
How does your garden grow?
Athens Land Trust nurturing neighborhoods’ community gardens By Chris Starrs Although Susan Wilson admits she doesn’t have a green thumb and adds that the conditions in her yard aren’t exactly conducive to growing things, she’s been gardening up a storm this year. The longtime director of the Garnett Ridge Boys and Girls Club, Wilson joined [...]
Classic Profile: Cassie Pickrell
University of Georgia special education student Cassie Pickrell, 21, began bartending in November at Rye Bar, which in March earned bragging rights as the city’s best bar in the Athens Banner-Herald’s Bar Madness bracketed contest. Athens Magazine editor Don Nelson talked with Pickrell about her job. Name: Cassie Pickrell Hails from: Thomson Experience: Rye Bar [...]
Local author’s books present ‘organically spiritual slant’
By: Ivy Lee Julie Cannon, a member of the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation and the author of “The Homegrown Series” published by Simon & Schuster, moved to Clarke County from Tennessee as a child. “The girl in me still carries the memories of shelling butter beans out on the front porch during those hot, humid [...]
