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PAGE 6A PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. AUGUST 25. 2022 Friendship Force International asks Are You an Ambassador or a Tourist? Friendship Force members — Barry Kadechuk, Linda Kadechuk, Marina, a Serbian Embassy employee, Peggy Anderson, Bob Anderson on a previous trip. By Bob and Peggy Anderson “Travel is fatal to preju dice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little comer of the earth all one's lifetime.” This quote by Mark Twain sort of summarizes the mission of Friendship Force Interna tional (FFI). For example, did you know there are over 300 do mestic and international FFI clubs with over 15,000 members? Did you know FFI was started in the late 1970s by the Associate Pas tor of the Big Canoe Chapel, Wayne Smith, and supported by Governor and President Jimmy Carter and Rosalyn? Did you know that long-time active Big Canoe Chapel member Charlene Terrell was a charter member and wrote a book on the begin nings of Friendship Force In ternational? When you travel, espe cially internationally, if you are like us, you want to go where the locals go whether it be restaurants, museums or unique events and activities in the area. Friendship Force takes this one step further— why not get to know the lo cals better by becoming an ambassador rather than just a tourist? Families from all over the world welcome us into their homes (and we re ciprocate) and we all become life-long friends. It is not for everyone but can lead to some very rewarding friend ships. With these friendships we often leam a new culture and sometimes even a new lan guage! Within the last ten years our Club as a group has visited South Africa, New Zealand, Japan, Costa Rica, France, Spain, Canada, the countries of Georgia and Armenia as well as many U.S. clubs including Kauai, Hawaii. We have hosted am bassadors from Canada, Ser bia, Macedonia, the country of Georgia (three times) and Ukraine as well as many do mestic clubs. We have made good friends from all over the world! For example, we re cently traveled with friends to the Balkans for a land and river cruise. For our “free time” we opted to visit a Ukrainian Refugee Center in Prague and visit with our Serbian friends in Novi Sad and at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade. We were the envy of our river cruise colleagues and we did not have to com promise any scheduled tourist attractions. If you would like to leam more, the Big Canoe/North Georgia Friendship Force Club would like to cordially invite you to attend our an nual Ice Cream Social on Sunday, September 11th from 2-4 p.m. at the Beach Club (old Big Swim Club). The Club is providing free ice cream, toppings, cookies, brownies and drinks. Come enjoy some ice cream and find out more about Friendship Force Inter national. Text Bob (770 894- 3162) or Peggy (770 356-2720), email (bobander- son48@windstream.net) or give us a call at home (706 579-1708). Please RSVP by September 7th. If you can not make the Ice Cream So cial, check out the weblink for FFI at www.friendship- force.org or just contact us. Future activities include wine tasting, a holiday party, a hosting experience with the San Antonio club and Mon golia, a visit to the Greater Orlando club, an opportunity to attend a Friendship Force Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and more. 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Earth Folk Farm brought the beans and Cammie’s Cre ations offered freeze dried treats such as mallows and taffy. Southern Chicks Soap offers many fragrant soaps that will appeal to anyone’s olfactory senses! Smokey Mt. Produce of fered up green tomatoes for frying as well as sunflower microgreens. There is no telling what great delicious ness you will find at the Farmers Market each week. And not only vegetables, you can find products for home, gifts for anyone and every one, plus, practical items like raised beds for easier garden ing, cutting boards for kitchens, macrame for hang ing plants, and much more. Be sure to come to the Park N Ride parking lot across from the Veterans Me morial at Lee Newton Park and see all the creative cre ations our vendors make. The Jasper Farmers Market is sponsored by the PCMGs. There are two Wednesday markets left, opening at 11. Saturday hours are 7:30-12. This Saturday will be in our normal location, however on September 3 the market will be located right across Hwy. 53 in the parking lot at Mountain Ed due to JeepFest campers in the park. Books & Writers Mystery & History in Georgia features stories from Pickens County A new publication on Georgia history which features Pickens County has been granted a “Five-Star Award” by the national Readers’ Favorite book raters. Entitled Mys tery & History in Georgia, the substantial tome by R. Olin Jackson is attracting atten tion in the historic genre of book sales. The topics included in Mystery & History which involve Pickens are: “The Mysterious Night Riders of Pickens County,” “The 1923 Pickens County Jail-Break,” “County Police man Fee Cape Murdered Over ‘Moon shine’,” “The North Georgia ‘Moonshine’ War,” and “The Strange Murder Case of Kate Southern.” The captivating topics in Mys tery & History reportedly are gaining the book favorable consideration from sources such as Readers’ Favorite. “(Mystery & History author R. Olin) Jackson offers a massive compilation, the re sult of exhaustive research on the history of the state and a number of unexplained events of which some will have certainly heard, and others of which I dare say no one outside the immediate area woidd have heard,” stated Readers’ Favorite rep Jamie Michele. “.... . I half expected a stodgy narrative with maybe a few good photographs, but was ab solutely blown away by the almost conver sational nature of the backstory and narrative and, my word, the photographs are incredi ble! The work is comprehensive and there is definitely something for everyone.” Jackson, a native of Georgia and former writer for the once-popidar Brown’s Guide to Georgia, is the founding publisher and for mer long-time editor (1987-2005) of Georgia Backroads magazine. Originally conceived as the travel and history-related North Geor gia Journal in 1987 and later converted into the statewide Georgia Backroads by Jackson, the magazine under his leadership and man agement became the state’s top travel, his tory, and lifestyles publication in the early 1990s, earning a number of awards from the The Lee Cape murder, the Kate Southern case, the Night Riders and the 1923 jail break here are among the stories featured in the recently published book by R. Olin Jackson. Magazine Association of Georgia. It contin ues in publication today under new owner ship. Jackson has also authored a number of other books involving Georgia history, in cluding Georgia Backroads Traveler, Moon shine, Murder, and Mayhem in Georgia, Georgias Doc Holliday, and Tales of the Rails in Georgia. Mystery & Histoiy in Georgia is 520 pages in length with over 275 supporting his toric photographs, many of which are con sidered rare prints. The book retails for $29.95, and is available online from Amazon (www.amazon.com) and in-store from other fine booksellers. Pickens Historical Society’s beer and history August 25 features nationally known historian Robert Davis, Jr. Robert Scott Davis, Jr. will be speaking at the Pendley Brewing Company on August 25th at 7 p.m. on the subject of Andrew Pick ens and his involvement with the Treaty of Fong Swamp. The talk is spon sored by the Pickens Histor ical Society is free and open to the public. 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