Smith: Remembering when cotton was king

In the last fortnight, I rode by a farm in South Georgia where cotton was making its way toward harvest.

Letters to the Editor: Fun-filled weekend in Eatonton

To the Editor, This was a down-home, fun-filled weekend in Eatonton-Putnam County.

Tocher: Atlanta doctor’s office shooting too close to home

Last Wednesday’s mass shooting at a medical facility in Atlanta took the life of one woman and sent four others to surgery for varying degrees of gunshot wounds, some life-threatening.

Crane: How technology helped solve the midtown shooting case

In the immediate and tragic aftermath of the Midtown Atlanta shooting of five unrelated women in a doctor’s office waiting room on May 3rd, officers from almost every city/county police agency in metro Atlanta, as well as the Georgia State Patrol, SWAT teams and multiple Sheriff’s offices,...

Yarbrough: Finding some good news in a bad news business

In a Sunday School class I have been attending, the subject of the media’s constant barrage of bad news was discussed.

Letters to the Editor: Uncle Remus Museum clarifications

Dear Editor, First, let me thank you on behalf of the members and board of directors of the Uncle Remus Museum of Eatonton, Georgia, Inc., for the wonderful article in the April 27 issue (The Eatonton Messenger), commemorating the museum’s 60th anniversary.

Letter to the Editor: Response to ‘Leadership on JDP remains AWOL’

Dear Editor, I am writing to respond to the person that wrote an editorial about Jimmy Davis Park's leadership being “AWOL” ( The Eatonton Messenger, April 20).

Rich: Mountain quare, Southern eccentric

It has been duly noted here how odd are my ways or how my thinking doesn’t always line up with genuine logic. Any Southerner, born and bred, has charming degrees of eccentricity. In the Southern reach of the Appalachians, however, many of us have a heaping helping of oddness.

Letters to the Editor: JDP plight continues; meeting scheduled

Dear Editor, It is good to see the plight of Jimmy Davis Park getting some attention in the Eatonton Messenger. Thank you to Patricia Jones-Hurt and Georgia Smith for their letters.

Letter to the Editor: Going to miss Blackwell’s

Dear Editor, I am so sorry to hear Blackwell’s Furniture is closing. What a legacy they have! And I feel I’m a tiny bit a part of it in that my family room couch and loveseat came from Blackwell’s.