CLASSIC CITY NEWS

By Erik Hogan It is still dark as I drive. Another early Sunday morning, waiting for that first cup of coffee to jump start my brain stem...

By T.W. Burger "Almost exactly 12 hours after he surrendered to police after a three hour standoff, Douglas Dubs found himself sentenced...

By Albert DeSimone The pre-appropriated term “woke” is a word that goes back to the 1930s. It was a term used by African Americans to...

By Erik Hogan I was on a quest to see ice. These were the successive days of bitter cold in early January, before the first snow event....

These images of the moon overAthens City Hall were recently captured by local photographer Erik Hogan.

By T.W. Burger As often happens, my clever ploy to get to sleep faster and more soundly at night didn’t quite work out. Clever ploys do...

It is not good to be entirely without experience of cold and heat, but one ought in some degree to feel the cold in winter and likewise...

By Erik Hogan It’s summertime in Georgia in the mid 1980’s. The sun beats down onto the roof of our solid green Buick Century station...

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...

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...

By Erik Hogan This is the Christmas edition of Field Notes . We are taking a break from nature, landscapes, backpacking, and adventure to...

This 2015 blog entry is republished with Bill’s permission By Bill King My friend Ligaya Figueras, the food and dining editor of The...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...