Category: People
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 [...]
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 [...]
Q & A with Aaron Murray
Name: Aaron Murray Sport: Football Age: 20 Hometown: Tampa, Florida High School: H.B. Plant High School 1. What is your earliest sport’s memory? a. When I was 10, my pee wee football team won the Super Bowl for our league. It was a pretty big upset because we had previously lost to this team [...]
Dooleys enjoying new digs after 13–month renovation project
In November 2010, Barbara and Vince Dooley finished a major home overhaul, in which the contractor completely removed the middle section of their house on Milledge Circle and rebuilt it. The project included gutting the two wings of the home and renovating them as well, giving the Dooleys in effect an entirely new stately and [...]
Best Friends Begin New Life Together
The wedding was a dream come true for Grace Taylor and Andrew Johnson, a match made in heaven. Married in the summer of 2010 in the presence of friends and family, the couple first met at the University of Georgia. Both are athletes: Grace a champion gymnast and Andrew a former walk–on defensive back for [...]
