“Fables of the Reconstruction / Reconstruction of the Fables,” part 2 Part 1 is here.Part 3 will finish the series in next Saturday’s Scattershot. “Maybe everyday is Saturday morning.”—Drive-By Truckers ** I started my search for a buyer with the local Chapter of Confederate Veterans.I had interviewed a couple of them for an article about how the aforementioned...
This year for Thanksgiving, we at Electric City Life are grateful for the vibrant blossom of public-art projects that have cast our city in a new light. We’re thankful for all the visionary civic leaders, business owners, artists, art patrons and art lovers who together have applied this primer coat on the transformation of Columbus, Georgia.And local artist Ralph Frank? He’s thankful...
Taking part in a exhibition that opens MLK Day at Vertigo’s High Room, local photographer Sammie Saxon says on how that reflects Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy: “Just the fact that a group of Black men can put on a show like this shows how much progress has been made.” HOWEVER … “The events of the past year have awakened people to the fact that our rights are...
Politicians, party loyalists, and people looking just to pass a good time showed up in strong numbers for two events last Saturday. Not just any sunny Deep South winter’s day, Saturday also marked the first day for early voting in two U.S.Senate run-off contests that have cast Georgia in the national spotlight. Held just a couple of miles and a couple hours apart, one rally had nearly all...
Chattahoochee Riverkeepers Ashley Desensi and Henry Jacobs wade into the murky water-quality issues that pollute Weracoba Crreek.
Tapped to be part of the commission examining the long-simmering controversy over subpoenaing Columbus Police Dept. officers, Rev. Adrian J. Chester says he has “a Biblical mandate” to take a stand. The Greater Beallwood Baptist Church pastor shares his insight into the history of the Public Safety Advisory Commission, its political shortcomings, the need for police accountability...
Community leader and creator of the Kinfolx Co. blog, Sherricka Day discusses the knowledge gained and lessons learned through her research the Black history of Columbus, Georgia.
Real Estate Developer, Writer, Literary Philanthropist You have stated that, with the endowment that you established at Columbus State, your wish is to do for the literary arts what the university has done for visual arts and performing arts in recent years. How do you see that vision taking shape?“Actually, I was planning to do something like this half my life, once I could afford to do it. I...
“Fables of the Reconstruction / Reconstruction of the Fables,” part 1 “Maybe everyday is Saturday morning.”—Drive-By Truckers ** My first move after becoming man of the house was to take down “Hope of the Confederacy.”Daddy bought the painting — a limited-edition print, rather, of a work the National Archives commissioned artist G. Harvey to do in 1991 — when he and mama...
What does International Holocaust Memorial Day every January mean to you and the congregation here at Temple Israel? “In the spring, within the Jewish world, there is an observance called Yom HaShoah, That is timed to coincide with the uprising at the Warsaw ghetto uprising. That’s mostly observed within the Jewish world, but World Holocaust Memorial Day makes everyone stop and think about their...