After the Beastie Boys brought a giant inflatable ... ummm ... "member" onstage in 1987, the city of Columbus decided to pass an anti-lewdness law prohibiting any act that "predominantly appeals to the prurient, shameful or morbid interest of minors." Over the next few months, Bobby Brown, Gene Simmons, and LL Cool J were all arrested during concerts in Columbus, prompting other artists to cancel their shows there. Although the law is still on the books, it is no longer enforced.

Macon came in last with 3,802 votes.

Twelve Athens women founded America's first garden club in 1891 in the Cobbham home of Mrs. E. K. Lumpkin. Today the Founders Memorial Garden on the University of Georgia campus commemorates these women.

In The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, W. E. B. Du Bois writes: "For a radius of a hundred miles about Albany, stretched a great fertile land, luxuriant with forests of pine, oak, ash, hickory, and poplar; hot with the sun and damp with the rich black swamp-land; and here the corner-stone of the Cotton Kingdom was laid."

During his thirty-five-year term as president of the Brumby Chair Company, Thomas Brumby made the company one of Marietta's largest employers and one of the Southeast's largest chair factories. In fact, the company's handmade Appalachian red oak rocking chair with cane seats, known as the Brumby Rocker, was in demand nationwide, gracing porches from humble residences to the White House.

During his thirty-five-year term as president of the Brumby Chair Company, Thomas Brumby made the company one of Marietta's largest employers and one of the Southeast's largest chair factories. In fact, the company's handmade Appalachian red oak rocking chair with cane seats, known as the Brumby Rocker, was in demand nationwide, gracing porches from humble residences to the White House.