Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, is observed this year from December 25th through January 2nd. The celebration commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the Maccabean Revolt, in 164 B.C. Simon Maccabeus [...]
Stained glass windows located in West Point First Methodist Church. Sacred space is a conceptually simple but highly relative term used to describe the physical area where connection to the divine is stronger and more [...]
Do you have a date tonight? Did you receive flowers or chocolates from your Valentine? Heart-shaped treats haven’t always been used to celebrate this day in mid-February. The early pagan festival of Lupercalia, celebrated on the Ides [...]
Rutledge Thomas Blasengame Parham resided only briefly in Troup County, but he is a key figure in one of our most enduring legends. We think he arrived here in late summer of 1864, as a patient in [...]
Students at the old Unity School meet with Santa around a Christmas Tree, 1949. Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert celebrate around a Christmas tree in 1848. Images like this prompted a craze [...]
My earliest recollection of anything to do with West Point Lake was sometime in the early 1960s. I don’t remember the exact date, but it was a Sunday afternoon and my grandmother’s neighbors were gathered around her [...]
Around the time that downtown LaGrange was cut from the wilderness in 1827, a road was blazed between LaGrange and Greenville. Once a road to Newnan was created, this road intersected the Greenville Road a short distance [...]
West Point, Georgia was originally known as Franklin starting on December 26, 1831. Franklin started as a trading post on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River. It is believed that the town got its name from [...]
LaGrange Daily News from July 15, 1997 On a cool spring evening, some college students were wandering around campus when the wind picked up a little. The breeze sent a shiver down their spines and [...]
By Randall Allen The proprietors of Brown Brothers’ Machine Shop in New Castle, Pennsylvania, made a gruesome discovery when they opened their office on the morning of December 29, 1894. Their patent attorney, William Huntley, sat slumped [...]
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