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Blacks soldiers and slaves: The American Revolution in Georgia

Above: Georgia Revolutionary War hero Austin Dabney Chapter One, Part 2: The American Revolution in Georgia is excerpted from The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia, by Donald L. Grant. Available from University of Georgia Press. Read Part 1: Beginnings of Evil, or An English Experiment Gone Awry About the book At the age of 52, my father received his PhD in History from the University of Missouri and accepted a position at Fort Valley State College (now University), a public HBCU in Middle Georgia south of Macon. Throughout his tenure and beyond, he worked on what turned into a monumental history of Black Georgians. Unfortunately, he died in 1988 without getting it published. After his death, I…

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The Formation of Georgia: Beginnings of Evil, or An English Experiment Gone Awry

Above: Early layout of Savannah This is an excerpt from The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia, by Donald L. Grant. Available from University of Georgia Press. About the book At the age of 52, my father received his PhD in History from the University of Missouri and accepted a position at Fort Valley State College (now University), a public HBCU in Middle Georgia south of Macon. Throughout his tenure and beyond, he worked on what turned into a monumental history of Black Georgians. Unfortunately, he died in 1988 without getting it published. After his death, I reviewed his work. Recognizing its value, I editing the massive 1,500-page manuscript down to publishable length and extended the narrative’s…

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On the road with John Noel: Savannah’s historic First African Baptist Church

Savannah’s First African Baptist Church is a special place, thriving and historic, so I was excited about my visit on the next-to-last day of April. I was on the road with John Noel, who is running for a seat on the Georgia Public Service Commission, and he had scheduled a visit to the church during a three-day road trip. Due to over-scheduling and whatnot, we arrived late, in the middle of the service on a blue-skied Sunday morning. When we entered, the first thing I saw besides the ushers was a bunch of white folks sitting in back—tourists who slipped in and out, hoping to catch a little—but probably not a lot—of the history and spirit of the oldest black church in…

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Dirt Road Democrats: Tweeting PSC candidate John Noel’s South Georgia trip

MACON LYONS Georgia's solar-powered candidate John @NoelforPSC endorses this truck. Check out his "Sticking It to the Man" video: https://t.co/i6e313OFfF #gapol pic.twitter.com/uHXsVJrnTP — Jonathan Grant (@Brambleman) April 30, 2018 TALES OF THE ALTAMAHA “I Saw the Light” Friday Night: John @NoelForPSC and I watched 14th annual production of #TalesoftheAltahama This year's folklife play was on point: “I Saw the Light” is the story of rural Toombs County electrification in 1937. At Blue Marquee Theater in Lyons. The place was packed @Vidaliaonions1 pic.twitter.com/xCs2ATKWCW — Jonathan Grant (@Brambleman) May 5, 2018 VIDALIA RUN FOR THE ONIONS Running with the onions: The Annual Vidalia Onion Festival is a thing you should see, like John @NoelForPSC did. Maybe next year! Runs the last weekend in April…

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On the road with PSC candidate John Noel in South Georgia

John Noel is running with the onions and meeting with South Georgians this weekend, taking his campaign for the Georgia Public Service Commission to in Vidalia, Hinesville, Jesup, and Savannah Saturday, with additional stops in Bryan County, Statesboro, and Macon tomorrow. It’s a whirlwind that includes four radio interviews, flurries of phone calls, and rescheduling on the fly as new opportunities arise, and that happens because Noel knows a lot of South Georgia folks and wants to know more of them. Unlike his opponents, Noel is running a statewide campaign. Talking to farmers in Vidalia and city residents in Savannah, he’s hearing the same thing — people feel neglected by Atlanta politicians who don’t get out and listen to the people.  If they…

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Chatham County Commissioner endorses John Noel for Georgia PSC

Noteworthy endorsement: Chatham County Commissioner James “Jay” Jones, also an environmentalist, traveled from Savannah to attend John’s Earth Day Birthday celebration. “This is my brother,” he said, standing next to John Noel on a makeshift stage. “I’m going to do everything I can in South Georgia to get him elected.”

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