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Sylvia, the famed ghost of Panola Hall, greets visitors during Haunted Eatonton. HANNAH BARRON/Staff

Sylvia, the famed ghost of Panola Hall, greets visitors during Haunted Eatonton. HANNAH BARRON/Staff

Ghosts come alive during Haunted Eatonton

Story And Photos By Hannah Barron
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Eatonton’s otherworldly residents came alive last week to meet mortals during the Georgia Writers Museum’s annual Haunted Eatonton event.The sold-out ghost tours, choreographed in partnership with The Arts Barn and co-sponsored by the Eatonton-Putnam Chamber of Commerce, were held from Oct.
Contributed by Gervais Hagerty, best-selling author of In Polite Company

Contributed by Gervais Hagerty, best-selling author of In Polite Company

GWM Book Review: The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise

News Staff
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Colleen Oakley’s The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise gets five out of five gold stars if you love a heart-warming, fast-paced, perfectly unexpected story about female friendship across generations.
Colleen Oakley

Colleen Oakley

GWM interview: author Colleen Oakley talks adventure

News Staff
Thursday, October 10, 2024
If you saw the hit movie, “Thelma and Louise,” starring Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, and Brad Pitt, you know the appeal of an adventurous road trip with the law on your tail.But imagine that story if it was about a lazy 21-year-old college dropout and an 84-year-old woman with a rich secret.
With a photo of the Dermonds’ Great Waters home on the TV mounted behind him, Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills presents the evidence gathered so far in what he admits is the “toughest case” of his career so far. IAN TOCHER/Staff

With a photo of the Dermonds’ Great Waters home on the TV mounted behind him, Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills presents the evidence gathered so far in what he admits is the “toughest case” of his career so far. IAN TOCHER/Staff

GWM ‘Crime & Wine’ delivers Dermond discussion

Ian Tocher
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Georgia Writers Museum and its popular Crime & Wine series, led by Cold Case Investigative Research Institute founder and Director Sheryl “Mac” McCollum, presented Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills updating a packed house Friday night on the unsolved May 2014 murders of Russell and Shirley Dermond...
(CONTRIBUTED)

(CONTRIBUTED)

GWM interview with novelist Tracey Enerson Wood

News Staff
Thursday, September 19, 2024
With headline news currently focused on getting two astronauts safely back to Earth, now is a great time to recall how it all started, with two Ohio bicycle shop owners on the windy beaches of Kitty Hawk, N.C.On Dec.
Tracey Enerson Wood

Tracey Enerson Wood

GWM to host bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood

Enerson Wood
Thursday, September 12, 2024
“Behind every successful man is a woman who …” The glory that the Wright Brothers experienced after their historic 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., was due to an unheralded and forgotten woman—their sister, Katharine.
Flannery O'Connor (CONTRIBUTED)

Flannery O'Connor (CONTRIBUTED)

GWM to present at GCSU Flannery O’Connor conference

News Staff
Thursday, August 29, 2024
The Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities will host Sept. 12-15, Flannery O’Connor’s Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back, a comprehensive conference at Georgia College & State University (GCSU) in Milledgeville.
'The Woman with the Cure' by Lynn Cullen. (CONTRIBUTED)

'The Woman with the Cure' by Lynn Cullen. (CONTRIBUTED)

GWM book review: The Woman with the Cure

News Staff
Thursday, July 11, 2024
I was a child of the 1950s, and though I don’t remember much of my earliest days, I do remember polio. It was more the rule than the exception in those days to have some classmates in wheelchairs or on crutches and occasionally to have one disappear completely, never to return.
The Woods of Fannin County (CONTRIBUTED)

The Woods of Fannin County (CONTRIBUTED)

GWM Review: The Woods of Fannin County

News Staff
Thursday, May 30, 2024
A child’s greatest fear may be abandonment or becoming lost. What will I eat or drink? What is hidden in the world that can hurt me? How can I stay warm when the cold comes?
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