Does anybody want these Clyattville High School annuals?
![[Pioneer '55]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/1955-06-30--clyattville-pioneer/20241013_134614.jpg)
They’re pretty musty, but still completely legible. The ’55 one has many inscriptions in it. Continue reading
Tag Archives: History
Pearson Tribune subscription 1947-08-30
My mother subscribed to the Pearson Tribune, August 30, 1947, 77 years ago.
It cost $2.00.
![[Pearson Tribune Subscription Receipt]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/1947-08-30--pearson-tribune/20241013_134915.jpg)
Pearson Tribune Subscription Receipt
Notice the address is just “Ray City Georgia”.
No rural route or anything was needed to deliver.
Also, the address for the same house now and since the 1960s is Hahira 31632.
Why Pearson? She grew up there, and had only married and moved to the farm a few years before.
-jsq
Turpentine Afterburn 2023-12-22
Two things I had never seen before: a turpentine catface burning, and a guide metal for a McCoy turpentine cup.
![[Catface burning, Turpentine guide, Nail that held the cup, the loblolly pine tree]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2023-12-22--afterburn/many.jpg)
Catface burning, Turpentine guide, Nail that held the cup, the loblolly pine tree
This was during and the day after our prescribed burn of December 21, 2023.
Also, this catface was on a loblolly, not a longleaf pine.
And since it was hacked into the tree during the Great Depression, in the turpentining that paid off the mortgage on the farm, in the 85 or so years since the tree had grown out around it, yet left the actual catface exposed. Continue reading
Old maps of north central Lowndes County
Some old roads from a century ago are still in the woods in north central Lowndes County.
![[1917 and 2023 maps compared]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/1917--lowndes-co-ga-soil-map/many.jpg)
On this 1917 soil map of Lowndes County, Hambrick Road runs east from Hagan Bridge to Cat Creek Road, as it still does today. In the center of the map, running south from Hambrick Road, is an old road that I keep open in my woods. The other day we used a bit of it for a firebreak in a prescribed burn.
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Soil Map, Georgia, Lowndes County Sheet, Record ID cmf0373, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1917, in
County Maps, Surveyor General, RG 3-9-66, Georgia Archives.
The house marked just north across Hambrick Road from that old road is still there. That was probably Fisher Gaskins’ house. I will ask his descendants.
That old woods road is between two creeks that are still there: Redeye Creek to its west, and Toms Branch to its right. They both end up in the Withlacoochee River floodplain.
Toms Branch is just east of the east part of Quarterman Road. Most of the rest of that road was already there in some form or other, although the south part of it, that currently runs straight east and west, did not run like that.
And notice all the other roads that are no longer open to the public. Continue reading
Defenders of the accused in the Salem Witch Trials 1692-10-18
The Salem Witch Trials took place all over Massachusetts colony. In Andover, almost everyone accused confessed, but, according to a petition mentioned in a TV show: “from the information we have had and the discourse some of us have had with the prisoners, we have reason to think that the extream urgency that was used with some of them by their friends and others who privately examined them, and the fear they were then under, hath been an inducement to them to own such things, as we cannott since find thay are conscious of;” I was familiar with that since some of my ancestors defended some of the accused, and more ancestors moved south after that nightmare.
![[Petition and chart]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/1692-10-18--petition-osgood/many.jpg)
Gretchen and I were watching Salem’s Lot, Season 9, Episode 2, of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
An ancestor of guest Jeff Daniels signed a peition on behalf of their wives and daughters who had been accused of being witches. This petition was Continue reading
67th Ham and Eggs show, Lowndes County only one left in U.S. 2017-02-14
The last of a century-old tradition: local ham and eggs, right here in Lowndes County.
When:
10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017
1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017
Where:
Lowndes County Extension Office
2102 E. Hill Ave., Valdosta, GA
Photo: Michael Rivera, Wikimedia Commons,
Creative Commons share, remix, attribution, share alike.
Daniel DeMersseman, VDT, 2017-02-10, Ham and Egg Show tradition returns,
Lowndes County’s annual Ham and Egg Show returns for its 67th year Feb. 14, 15.
The show once spread across every county in Georgia, said Velma Miles, chairman of the Lowndes Improvement Association. “We’re the only one left.”
Miles said the Continue reading
Dr. Elsie Quarterman, Plant Ecologist, at Cheekwood
A bench inscribed simply “Dr. Elsie Quarterman, Plant Ecologist” sits
under cedar trees in the herb garden at Cheekwood Botanical Garden;
appropriately for a scientist whose specialty was cedar glades.
She was involved with Cheekwood for many years, and was its Acting Director from 1967 to 1968. She helped establish the herb garden in which the bench sits. Continue reading
Video: “This has really turned into a thing” –Chris Beckham about South Georgia Growing Local to Gretchen Quarterman on WVGA 105.9 FM 2016-01-20 @ SOGALO16
You can
register today for South Georgia Growing Local 2016,
to be held all day Saturday February 6th at Pine Grove Middle School.
Chris Beckham was struck by the variety: corn, chicken, fruits, goats, soap, composting, water, worms, solar power!
So many different topics in six tracks, “but all indigenous to South Georgia.”
Gretchen replied,
Indeed, when this conference started six years ago, we just had two tracks. One was about cooking, and one was about growing, pest control, and fertilizing, and how to have your garden be successful in the special conditions of south Georgia and north Florida. Because our conditions here are different than they are in north Georgia or on the coast, or farther south in Florida where it never freezes. We sort of have a very special environment here, and so this conference is geared towards that.
Lots of new and repeat talks; see the Continue reading
I Stand For What I Stand On: Permaculture for a Better Tomorrow –Benjamin & Jennifer Vieth @ SOGALO16 2016-02-06
Layered gardens as ecosystems that have persistent community and environmental benefits: permaculture.
Description: We will be discussing how permaculture practices with an emphasis on land stewardship and building communities.
Who should attend: Anyone interested in community gardens, permaculture, and environmental philosophy.
“Benjamin Vieth has a BA in Continue reading
The new colonialists and local agriculture to shape our own local economy
This sums up both
Bill Gates’ sudden surge of
agricultural land purchases
and
the fossil fuel industry’s sudden surge of fracked methane pipelines:
“on a global scale, that the global problem, from the
perspective of European colonialists and European entrepreneurs, is
really how to transform the countryside.”
In both cases, we here in the southeast are just peasants
or backwards natives from the perspectives of the
the new colonialists as they try to transform our countryside.
So what if such transformation results in
dust storms
or
leaks, explosions, or
higher domestic natural gas prices?
The new colonialists would profit!
Jonathan Shaw wrote for Harvard Magazine November-December 2014, The New Histories: Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past. Continue reading