Monthly Archives: January 2008

Lake Lanier & The Chattahoochee River (Issue 10)

By Freedom Lady | January 29, 2008

In the middle part of the 20th century, it was decided the Corp of Engineers would dam up the Chattahoochee River and build a man-made lake, called Lake Lanier, named after the Georgia poet Sidney Lanier who wrote the poem, “Song of the Chattahoochee.” It flows from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Gulf of [...]

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Grist Mill And Country Store (Issue 9)

By Freedom Lady | January 25, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, I took a trip with a friend of mine to the little town of Helen, Georgia, an Alpine village nestled in the mountains of North Georgia. All the buildings are so European, and the streets are lined with quaint import stores. The Chattahoochee River flows through the center of town, [...]

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Country Store & Farming (Issue 8)

By Freedom Lady | January 22, 2008

After my husband’s military retirement in the sixties, we moved out in the country onto 18 acres. I wanted to learn how to live self-sufficiently. I wanted a garden to grow food, chickens for eggs, and pigs for meat. Despite the fact that I grew up on a farm, I really knew very little about [...]

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Royalty And Movie Stars In The Great Depression (Issue 7)

By Freedom Lady | January 18, 2008

Growing up in the Depression years, money was scarce as hens’ teeth.
 
There was a little store in the school building. My parents would give me a bag of eggs to take to school to swap for candy from the little school store. The problem was that I had to walk almost a mile to catch [...]

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Bionic Woman (Issue 6)

By Freedom Lady | January 15, 2008

I recently went for an eye checkup. The conclusion by the optometrist—no eyeglass prescription until I had cataract surgery.
 
Most of my life, I have steered clear of the druggist and the surgeon’s knife. I have an aversion to drugs and going under the knife. Never having any surgery, (except tonsils removed as a teenager), it [...]

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