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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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Farmers
Market
Report
By Heather Giambra
A very wet beginning to
the Jasper Farmers Market
did not dampen the locals en
thusiasm. As Vivian Tritt of
Fancy Fruit Sorbet stated,
“One thing about people from
Jasper, they will bring their
umbrellas.” She said it was a
surprisingly busy market day
for such a rainy start.
The Pickens County Mas
ter Gardeners had plenty of
plants to offer at their plant
tent and did quite well despite
the early morning soaking.
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.
Davis, has more than
1,000 publications dealing
with genealogy, history,
records, and research, most
of which deal with the state
of Georgia (USA) in some
form or fashion. He has
been widely quoted by or
appeared in CNN, Time,
Smithsonian, Newsweek,
the Wall Street Journal, and
elsewhere.
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