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I can’t speak for crooks, drifters, and others standing before a judge, but law-abiding Georgians love their courthouses and well they should. Georgia has one of America’s great collections of courthouses. The buildings range from Greek Revival to International Style. In fact, just about every architectural style imaginable can be found in Georgia’s 159 counties.

What’s interesting is that although Georgia is the twentieth largest state, it is second in number of courthouses. Only Texas has more. Without doubt, Georgia has a reputation for having some of the more beautiful and historic courthouses in the country.

Lots of people have visited Bentonville, Ark., home of Walmart, for commercial reasons. Now there’s another major reason to visit: to go to a new museum with a superb collection of American art. Not only that, but the museum, the idea of one of the heirs of the Walmart fortune, has no admission charge. “Your admission has been provided by Walmart,” they tell you.

Crystal Bridges Museum is the brainchild of Alice Walton, 62, youngest daughter of Sam Walton, founder of Walmart. The art alone in the museum has been estimated to have cost $445.4 million.

At supper my dad told of a conversation he had with a client in Pennsylvania earlier that day. It was April 9, 1968, the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was laid to rest. "I guess you people ... Read on →

Remember Ronny Zamora, the Miami teenager who shot and killed an elderly neighbor in 1977 and then ignited a national debate about television’s influence on behavior when he and his lawyer argued that he had been ... Read on →

Long ago we took great vacations. Simple trips beyond imitation. This might be a column to save especially if you remember A1A and Burma-Shave. — Despite the high price of gasoline the summer vacation lives on. A lot ... Read on →

With my teaching assistant contract drawing to its close, and my life in Vannes, France also nearing its conclusion, there remained one final French tradition for me to experience. Friday night, the day after my last ... Read on →

4th Century BC Greek Cup Depicts Lost Wax Foundry I tagged along with painter and sculptor Richard Cecil, friend and former Pine Lake neighbor, when he picked up the latest edition of his beautiful bronze Ball Dancer ... Read on →

I have come both reluctantly and late to the belief that President Obama will lose re-election unless he moves, and moves quickly, to prosecute the main Wall Street malefactors of the 2008 economic collapse. Last Sunday's segment ... Read on →

“Catch a cannonball, to take me down the line …” — The Band Clarksdale, Miss. – First, a moment of silence for the soul of a great American, the Arkansas drummer and singer Levon ... Read on →

What have man wrought? Well let’s start with iron, wrought iron. Favored for ornamental fences and gates it’s an aspect of the South that’s as southern as biscuits and molasses, as southern as ... Read on →

They came screaming out of a dorm window somewhere in 1968 and on the way to some place you had to stop and wonder why someone was playing a fugue. Much less a ... Read on →

Disclaimer: This is not an advertisement. How fine the Southern sun and yet how strong. Sunlight in the South is one and half times more intense than in the North. How damaging that Southern ... Read on →

While there will be plenty of "something old" at this year's Bear on the Square Mountain Festival in Dahlonega, there will also be "something new" to benefit the attendees at this year's event, ... Read on →

Captain Archibald Willingham Butt of Augusta, GA, 1909. He died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The American passion to centennialize—especially if there's a ... Read on →

Even before the movie version of The Hunger Games started making a ton of cash at the box office, it was constantly being declared ... Read on →

MERIGOLD, Miss. -- “There are no inhibitions in here,” the postman shouted, gesturing at the dance floor with his Marlboro Light, the glowing tip ... Read on →

Knowing that he could be executed for his crimes, notorious serial killer Ted Bundy suggested he be kept alive so his mind could be ... Read on →

A remembrance of sports columnist Furman Bisher, who died Sunday at the age of 93.  This column was originally published October 11, 2009. The Beatles' ... Read on →

Disney’s long-in-development “John Carter” took in $30.6 million at the box office last weekend, typically a respectable figure. So why are most media outlets calling it a bomb? Probably ... Read on →

Welcome to Burger Kink. May I take your order? You can have it your way, or one of our hot and juicy sandwiches will have its way with you. Would ... Read on →

The latest controversy surrounding radio personality Rush Limbaugh seems to be proof of the old saying, “I don’t care what they say about me as long as they ... Read on →

The dawning age of America’s great rock festivals was legendary both for its music and its massive crowds. But a different kind of legacy could be its greatest. Crowd ... Read on →

Bill Clinton famously used Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow)” for his campaign theme song. Ross Perot, improbably but intentionally, chose Patsy Cline’s “Crazy.” Barack Obama went ... Read on →