Ramblin Woman

Passing over Utah

Breakfast @ the local cafe in Pine Mountain, Georgia

Sweet Miz Lillian introduced me to Melinda, Reba & Bill.

After breakfast we ran over to the Historical Center, which Miz Lillian & company staff and run.

This is the phone the Center was using until recently. Hard to push buttons on this phone, Reba said.

What else can a prisoner do besides write on the wall? Inside the Chipley Jail — Mashine Gun.

You can’t get this on a Kindle

Anyone you know here?

Bo, the fellow among the flowers, used to life-guard with writer Stuart Woods, who grew up in nearby Manchester.

I had to leave the folks at Pine Mountain & head east for Macon, where I caught up with Rick Hutto.
Rick’s the the author of A Peculiar Tribe of People.  But first I spoke to the staff at the newspaper & visited with my sweet friend Jackie K. Cooper, who has a new book out next week  — Back to the Garden — by those great folks at Mercer Univ. Press

Meet Marc Jolley — the man who gave me my start in this business.

Good people pass through these doors everyday.

Isn’t this exactly how you imagine publishers working?

The slush pile — Thanks but no thanks.

The Bradford Pears in full bloom at Sydney Lanier’s birthplace. Lanier authored The Song of the Chattahoochee.

And this is for Bert. When a book is endorsed by the Allman Brothers Band it is only right that a gal pay her respects.

I did that by visiting the graves Duane Allman & Berry Oakley. The autograph read: From one redneck to another.

Remember girls, when you thought Greg Allman was the hottest thing going?