Loran Smith

Loran Smith/Columnist

Exclusive Subscriber Content

Smith: Traveling to the Golden Isles

News Staff

Thursday, October 26, 2023

This town, Darien, is a focal point of the Georgia Coast, where tradition and history are as entrenched as marsh hen, moss-draped oaks, and shrimp boats.

Loran Smith/Columnist

Exclusive Subscriber Content

Smith: Arnold Harrison

Loran Smith

Thursday, October 19, 2023

At a prosperous automobile dealership, it seems like everyone is always in motion. Nothing is idling except for a smooth-running engine that has just been finely tuned to make a satisfied customer even more satisfied.

Loran Smith/Columnist

Exclusive Subscriber Content

Smith: Helen reminisces

Loran Smith

Thursday, October 19, 2023

I have had a love affair with this community dating back to the first time I ventured here in the Sixties which came about when a far-sighted man suggested that Helen was an especial place. He was right. Dr. Hugh B. Masters was an aficionado of the Chattahoochee and the North Georgia mountains.

Loran Smith/Columnist

Exclusive Subscriber Content

Smith: Pumpkin soup

Loran Smith

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Where I grew up, life was centered around “making do.” You never threw anything away. Your mother could make clothes out of flower sacks and sofa cushions from seed sacks. Crocker sacks were used for many things, and you patched them up when they became battered and kept on using them.

Georgia tight end Brock Bowers (19) during Georgia’s game against Auburn on Pat Dye Field at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala., on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (Tony Walsh/UGAAA)

Exclusive Subscriber Content

Smith: Well-rounded tight end Brock Bowers becoming Georgia legend

Loran Smith

Thursday, October 5, 2023

If you talk with Brock Bowers about his passions for hunting and fishing and know nothing about his background, you might take him for a native Georgian. He could hail from Americus, Valdosta, or Albany. Or perhaps the hills of Habersham.

Loran Smith/Columnist

Exclusive Subscriber Content

Smith: Contour Coke

Loran Smith

Thursday, October 5, 2023

In those days when I started observing what was going on around me, I noticed that there were several people in small towns who had enviable status in their communities. There was the doctor and the dentist, naturally.

Loran Smith/Columnist

Exclusive Subscriber Content

Smith: Georgia grad Pat Dye made huge impact at Auburn

News Staff

Thursday, September 28, 2023

A journey over to Auburn always brings about reflections of times spent with Pat Dye on his farm near Notasulga, Alabama, which is a little less than 13 miles from the campus where he spent almost a dozen years as head football coach and athletic director.

Loran Smith/Columnist

Exclusive Subscriber Content

Smith: Remembering Jim Jordan

Loran Smith

Thursday, September 28, 2023

A close friend from my high school years passed away in the last fortnight, and I’m ‘hurtin'. With a busy schedule, almost overwhelming in the fall, I hardly have had time to grieve, but his smiling face has appeared often in my consciousness as I have gone about my daily routine lately.

Loran Smith/Columnist

Exclusive Subscriber Content

Smith: Behind the lens with Cassie Wright

Loran Smith

Thursday, September 21, 2023

A book with photography being critical to its success brings about a need for creative handiwork on the part of the artist behind the lens.

Loran Smith/Columnist

Exclusive Subscriber Content

Smith: Scattering cotton

Loran Smith

Thursday, September 14, 2023

This time of the year, I always relate everything to hurricanes, football, cotton picking, and the 1951 playoff game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants.

Subscribe to