Let's Hear It for Local History
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...