Paul Dunn recalls his home town of Fitzgerald, Georgia, circa 1946, touring the town which is rich in history and tradition. A true slice of nostalgic small-town Americana.

A Stroll Through Fitzgerald, GA, In The Forties

Biographies & Memoirs

Dunn, Paul B.

Historical

Thomas Max Publishing

After the Civil War, railroads were built to link the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of the reunited nation. South of the Mason-Dixon line, work gangs were either Negro or Irish. The O'Dunn family was employed for three generations as Trackmen that built or maintained railroad tracks in the Southern states. Teddie O'Dunn was a telegrapher-depot agent, or "lightning slinger." Born in Tennessee, the youngest child of a rowdy Irish father and an orphan girl raised in West Virginia, he was named for President Teddie Roosevelt. His boyhood days were spent in the Civil War prison camp in the town of Andersonville, Georgia. He learned telegraphy at the knee of a kindly woman agent-operator at the Central of Georgia Railroad Depot. Sixty miles southeast of Andersonville was a Colony City, Fitzgerald. Teddie went to Fitzgerald to work as a lightning slinger on the railroad connecting the new town to Atlanta and Florida. His family admonished him to have no association with Yankee girls that paraded the sidewalks of Fitzgerald. But Teddie was lightning struck, so to speak, by a small bundle of charm, the granddaughter of a Calvary man in General Sherman's army. Their trials, tribulations and heartaches through their years fill this book

Lightning Slinger of Andersonville

A groundbreaking history of human interaction with the last continent on earth. For centuries it was suspected that there must be an undiscovered continent in the southern hemisphere. But explorers failed to find one. On his second voyage to the Pacific, Captain James Cook sailed further south than any of his rivals but still failed to sight land. It was not until 1820 that the continent's frozen coast was finally sighted and parts of the continent began to be claimed by nations that were intent on having it as their own. That rivalry intensified in the 1840s when British, American and French expeditions sailed south to chart further portions of the continent that had come to be called Antarctica. On and off for nearly two centuries, the race to claim exclusive possession of Antarctica has gripped the imagination of the world. Science was enlisted to buttress the rival claims as nations developed new ways of asserting territorial rights over land that was too forbidding to occupy. Although the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 was meant to end the rivalry it has continued regardless, as new nations became involved and environmentalists, scientists and resource companies began to compete for control.Antarctica: A biography draws upon libraries and archives from around the world to provide the first, large-scale history of Antarctica. On one level it is the story of explorers battling the elements in the most hostile place on earth as they strive for personal triumph, commercial gain and national glory. On a deeper level, it is the story of nations seeking to incorporate the Antarctic into their national narratives and to claim its frozen wastes as their own.

Tremble Chin

Community & Culture

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A Stroll Through Fitzgerald, GA, In The Forties

Lightning Slinger of Andersonville

Tremble Chin