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Now I lay me down to howl
By T.W. Burger The news seems suddenly full of animals. No, not that guy in what we used to call Yugoslavia. I mean the ones naturewriter...
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Classic City News
Dec 23, 20243 min read
Scents of Christmas past
By T.W. Burger John Messina was always there for a few years, looming elegantly, joyously over Nana’s giant holiday dinners. As a kid, I...
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Classic City News
Dec 22, 20245 min read
Field notes: a holiday tradition
By Erik Hogan This is the Christmas edition of Field Notes . We are taking a break from nature, landscapes, backpacking, and adventure to...
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Classic City News
Dec 14, 20246 min read
Waffle House? My family’s got it covered, and scattered
This 2015 blog entry is republished with Bill’s permission By Bill King My friend Ligaya Figueras, the food and dining editor of The...
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Classic City News
Dec 11, 20244 min read
The danger of chasing tail
By T. W. Burger Whenever I watch world leaders contemplating the use of power, I always want to tell them about my old tomcat. Tom could...
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Classic City News
Dec 2, 20243 min read
Requiem for Bernie
By T.W. Burger I didn't try to count the number of people in the church. It was a good-sized crowd. I wasn't there on assignment, but on...
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Classic City News
Nov 21, 20244 min read
At home on the cosmic camper
By T.W. Burger It had been a long walk in the muck, on legs that had spent too much time tucked under a computer table. And I will...
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Classic City News
Nov 17, 20243 min read
Time And a River
By Erik Hogan Time is such a strange concept. It is measured so very precisely and consistently. At one end of the spectrum we tally eons...
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Classic City News
Nov 14, 20242 min read
Thoughts on scratch'n sniff news
By T.W. Burger It is often true that we do not take full advantage of the technologies available to us. Nowhere is this more true than in...
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Classic City News
Nov 11, 20244 min read
A dose of culture at Joe's place
By T.W. Burger I would have loved to meet Joe Delaney. Finding Joe’s place was dumb luck, really. Most of my attention had been given to...
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Classic City News
Nov 9, 20243 min read
Nobody and the graveyard raid
By T.W. Burger It is not a very large cemetery, tucked away between the back end of a large brick church and a row of some houses that...
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Classic City News
Nov 9, 20246 min read
A Little Weird: Fare thee well, Geordie
By Eddie Whitlock You don’t know people very often. You know a little slice of a little facet of most of them. There are a few you get to...
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Classic City News
Oct 29, 20245 min read
A Little Weird: We are the monsters
By Eddie Whitlock We are the monsters. At least, that’s my goal. It’s that time of year. It’s my favorite time of year: Halloween. When...
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Classic City News
Oct 23, 20243 min read
Never met a stranger: Celebration of summer in a jar
By T.W. Burger I could not help but note that the man extracting honey from the combs in the Langsroth frames looked almost bearlike;...
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Classic City News
Oct 20, 20242 min read
Never Met a Stranger: Tattoos
By T. W. Burger Tattoos have probably been around nearly as long as we’ve had skin. I don’t have any particular problem with them, though...
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Classic City News
Oct 9, 20243 min read
We’re from Georgia AIM and we’re here to help
By Bill Crane In looking forward and embracing our future yet to come I often find benefit in looking back. One of my favorite quotes...
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Classic City News
Sep 30, 20243 min read
Shark teeth and weasels
By T. W. Burger Dan Stoneburner and I walked along the two tracks of what passed for a road on that barrier island off the coast of...
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Classic City News
Sep 25, 20243 min read
Is heading off Georgia’s election train wreck on Brad Raffensperger?
By Leon Galis The state of Georgia’s Election Board, which nobody outside the state and hardly anybody in it had ever heard of before...
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Classic City News
Sep 19, 20244 min read
Athens mayor and commission squandering taxpayer money with out-of-state retreat
By Michael H. McLendon Today when Athenians are pinching pennies to pay for groceries and their electric bills, our mayor and...
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Classic City News
Aug 29, 20243 min read
The Cellist of Sarajevo
By T.W. Burger We hear a lot about heroes in these days of endless wars. I’m afraid that we’ve had so much war in recent years that we...
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