Story By: Zack Santa Cruz and Brit Bowen. Many people have childhood dreams of becoming a famous athlete one day. Scoring the winning touchdown or hitting a walk-off homerun is something that almost anyone would love to experience, but realizations of that experience are incredibly rare. The Miracle League of East Alabama is doing everything [...]
Field of Miracles
April 23rd, 2013Clinton Morris: WWII Stories
April 12th, 2013
Story By: Quay Garrett and Austin Penny. Clinton Morris, a veteran of WWII, served at various U.S. Navy airbases in the United States. After the war, Morris played basketball at Auburn University, and West Alabama. He also earned master’s degree in history from Vanderbilt. His knowledge of basketball led him to Europe where he coached [...]
River Rising: Columbus Whitewater
April 11th, 2013
Story by: Quay Garrett and Austin Penny. The banks of the Chattahoochee River have seen many uses in the last hundred years. It’s transformed from a dumping site to a power source and now to a fun zone! If you take a walk down to the river by the old Eagle & Phenix Mills you [...]
Bibb City Mills
March 25th, 2013
Story By: Quay Garrett and Austin Penny. Bibb City is a city within a city. Today it’s simply a small Columbus, GA neighborhood, but from 1902 to 1998 it was a thriving mill community. Dr. Virginia Causey is a professor in the Department of History & Geography at Columbus State University. She tells of a [...]
Horace King: Barriers and Bridges
December 11th, 2012
Story By: Will Nease. Covered Bridge at the “Big” Red Oak Creek Logs wider and taller than light posts line the wooden bridge comprised of hundreds of intersecting beams that crisscross more times than a lanyard-making club at summer camp. No nails. Just wooden pegs one-inch in diameter and 10 or 12 inches long pounded [...]
Charlie Joseph’s
November 19th, 2012
Story By: Amy Whittemore and Will McLain. Tucked away on Bull Street is a local eatery that has been serving generations of LaGrange, GA natives. Charlie Joseph’s opened its doors in 1920 and introduced Troup County to its now famous hotdogs and burgers. Steven Keeth, owner of the Bull Street location, has worked in the [...]
Tyre Weaver’s Fall Into Grace
June 22nd, 2012
Story by Timothy Gay. Photos Courtesy of Brenda Weaver. On July 26, 1943, 23-year-old Staff Sergeant Tyre C. Weaver of River View, Alabama, a flight engineer, was manning the top-turret gun on the B-17 bomber Ruthie II when it was jumped by a swarm of enemy fighters over Hanover, Germany. The first barrage of cannon [...]
Miss Hilda
March 8th, 2012
Story By: Daniel Kosmala and Gabby Ware. Miss Hilda Sexton is an amazing 96-year old native of China. She lives in Eufaula, Alabama where she has spent much of her career working in some capacity at the famous Shorter Mansion. Here is a brief look at her life. This story produced with the support of [...]
The Life and Times of Butch & John Henry
December 19th, 2011
Story By: Rebecca Croomes. The barn door is festooned with hand-painted messages warning trespassers of loose snakes. Hollowed out bowling balls act as homes for potted plants and a wheelbarrow of animal skulls greets visitors at the door of Butch Anthony’s Alabama Museum of Wonder. Millions of things, the detritus of everyday life turned into [...]
Holocaust Survivor Henry Stern
December 7th, 2011
Story By: Avery Cotton, Michelle Zauzig and Taylor Anderson. He was only six years old, when he walked onto the last ship allowed to legally carry Jews out of Germany. Henry Stern’s family boarded the S.S. Washington in Hamburg, Germany with only ten dollars and whatever material goods they could carry. It was 1937 and [...]
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Chattahoochee River
The Chattahoochee River (blue highlight) begins as a spring in the Chattahoochee Gap of northeast Georgia near Helen. It flows southwesterly through Atlanta to West Point then bends due south to form the southern half of the Georgia/Alabama state line. Just south of the point where Alabama, Florida and Georgia meet, the Chattahoochee merges with the Flint River (yellow highlight) to form the Apalachicola River. The waters then flow through the Florida Panhandle into Apalachicola Bay. The distance from Chattahoochee Spring to Apalachicola is approximately 540 miles. The name Chattahoochee is thought to come from a Creek Indian word meaning river of painted rocks.
The Chattahoochee Heritage Project is a web based information service highlighting the people, places, and culture of the Chattahoochee River Valley. The site is developed by students, faculty and friends of the Auburn University Department of Communication & Journalism with the support of Auburn University Outreach.
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