The 2011 Newnan Candlelight Tour of Homes is scheduled for Friday December 2 from 4:00 until 9:00 P.M. The annual event is staged by the Piedmont Newnan Hospital Auxiliary and this year will feature five homes in the Cole Town Historic District. The tour homes this year will include Victorian, Cr
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11/30/2011
It seems that now we have a special shopping day for every kind of business entity. The Monday after Thanksgiving is designated as “Cyber Monday” and many online merchants are having huge online sales today. I have mixed feelings about buying merchandise online. I love the convenience and the abi
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11/28/2011
The squeaks of chalk on slate now stillGone is the clamor of the children’s trillNo more ink or leaf or dog-eared tomeThe old schoolhouse has gone on home! (R Weisser 2011) Like the old schoolhouse in Fayette County Georgia, many old buildings that have outlived their usef
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11/27/2011
My wife works at a local department store and had to be on the floor at 4:30 this morning. Because of the early hour I offered to drive her to work and she gladly accepted. Her store had opened at 3:00 A.M so when we arrived the parking lot was already full and there were hundreds of “Black Frida
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11/25/2011
I grew up in a large family. A VERY large family! And Thanksgiving was always celebrated with both reverence and revelry! As if the twelve of us were not enough, mother always cooked for grandparents on both sides, and at least one aunt and uncle and a slew of cousins that varied from year to yea
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11/24/2011
The auctioneer’s gavel drops and the deal is done. But do you ever wonder what the auction profession is all about? It is one of the most ancient ways of conducting a sale and determining a price. As the purest form of setting a true fair market value “on the spot,” auction can be one of the best
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11/22/2011
Thanksgiving week is traditionally one of frantically trying to juggle business responsibilities and family festivities. And since many professional offices are closed on both Thursday and Friday, the pressure is really on to get everything done in as efficient a manner as possible. It takes a co
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11/21/2011
The days grow short and darkness loomsO’er what was once fresh buds and shootsNow petals loosed and drifting blindAre washed along the sluice of time. (R. Weisser 2011) As the last leaves succumb to the rake, it’s hard to believe that the holidays are already upon us. The transit
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11/19/2011
When writing a regular blog post, you are always going to encounter a situation where you wish to expound on a topic, but fear that the subject matter has already been thoroughly exploited. But in reality the reason these themes are consistently and periodically addressed is that there is persist
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11/19/2011
As a CSX Northbound freight rumbles past the old Madras Depot, the fate of the historic building is still in the hand of local benefactors. Built along the Atlanta and West Point Railroad in the mid 1850’s, the antebellum structure is in danger of being razed. The county has left the fate of this
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11/18/2011