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Over the last couple of years I’ve immersed myself into a personal local history project involving researching and writing about the history of my home…..Douglas County, Georgia.   What started as a weekly column here at Douglasville Patch morphed into a blog called Every Now and Then located here .   I’ve learned several interesting things along the way, met some great people, and kept myself rather busy meeting a self-imposed Monday deadline each and every week……something I’m trying to get back to doing around here at History Is Elementary as well. One of the things I’ve tried to do in many of my postings is to connect local history to the larger picture of what was happening in Georgia   and in the United States at the same time. For example, recently I wrote about a couple who moved to Douglasville, Georgia in 1887.   Now in and of itself that’s NOT so remarkable, but the fact that the couple was from Chicago, Illinois caught my interest. Later as I began t...

Augusta, Georgia is front and center this week as the golf infamous and elite arrive to play the much heralded course at August National. President Eisenhower loved August National…..this post relates a little about his experiences there, and there are a couple of links at the end to other posts I’ve written concerning the course. David Eisenhower became a member of the August National Club in 1948. Prior to becoming president he managed to visit the course five different times. Ike loved golf. Estimations go as high as 800 regarding the number of rounds of golf Eisenhower played during his eight years in office visiting various courses. Some of those rounds were played during the 29 visits he made to Augusta National. a Golf Digest article advises President Eisenhower loved golf so much he installed a putting green on the south lawn of the White House and during inclement weather he hit long irons into a net in the basement. With the help of donations from club members a cabin was bu...