With Hurricane Irma bearing down on the United States and possibly Georgia this weekend, Stan looks at the catastrophic storms of 1893 and 1898, the last major hurricanes to hit Georgia.
This week’s Off the Deaton Path podcast previews the action-packed College Football Season that begins this Labor Day weekend. Stan inflicts on gridiron-loving fans his previews, predictions, half-baked ideas and inane commentary about the Dogs, Jackets, and other big games in September. Click and enjoy.
Check out Stan’s first podcast on Off the Deaton Path, a new weekly feature. In the wake of the protests and violence in Charlottesville, this week he discusses a riveting new biography of Hitler.
Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. Pantheon Books, 2016, 724 pp., $35.00. At the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia, the late great Conrad Fink—Marine lieutenant, former Vietnam War correspondent, Associated Press veteran, and journalist par excellence—taught us that above …Continue Reading »
As long-suffering readers of this blog know well, I’ve had a long love affair with the Rolling Stones. I’ve seen them nine times in five different cities over the last 35 years, from the first time as a 17-year-old senior in high school to the last as a 50-year-old in the summer of 2015. So …Continue Reading »