Smith: Visiting 'salt-of-the-earth' friends is the reason for so many north Georgia trips

Owing to a warm friendship with Jimmy Harris, the good-natured mayor of Nacoochee Bend, just outside Helen, I have for the longest time experienced some of the most refreshing sojourns into the northern half of our state. For the record, Nacoochee Bend is not incorporated and the last thing on Jimmy’s mind would be to engage in politics. He is too loyal, too forthright, and too practical for the…