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For our digital subscription offerings, go to gainesvilletimes.com/subscribe Hwy. 441 preserves segment of North Georgias history Crossing the state line from North Carolina into Georgia, comfortably wide U.S. Highway 441 takes you into Dillard. In the distance toward the left, you can see the peaks of the Tennessee Valley Divide. Where the mountains close in more tightly, there are a few narrow spots along High way 441. After that, it’s wide travel almost all the way to Athens. It wasn’t like this in 1980. My first trip to Athens, coming from Maine in a Plymouth eaten by road salt with a suspension eaten by potholes, involved a stop in Dillard to get a state safety inspection. The little Gulf sta tion and single service bay are now the location of a hardware shopping center. Ten minutes later, a Georgia inspection sticker graced the windshield. I mar veled at the simplicity of the process. An equivalent inspection in Germany by the Technischer flberwachungsverein, ruler over all things automotive, would have taken a full hour, along with humbling comments. The Gulf station people were friendly and supportive instead. U.S. 441 wound its narrow 2-lane way down to the town of Tallulah Falls. One still accessible section of the old road leads to the Trading Post overlook, where I joined a large crowd peering down into Tallulah Gorge. Today, the parking lot shows only a few cars, and tourists no longer compete for space in the store. But it’s still there, and the views from the balcony are as magnificent as ever. Between Clarkesville and Cornelia, small farms were dis playing big banners, advertising fresh apples and cider on both sides of the little road. Loaded with a basket of Habersham apples and a gallon of cider, I picked my way through the tight streets of Baldwin, past the ancient water tower and factory building that are still in existence today. Heading toward Homer, the ter rain along the old 441 became, and still is, steep and curvy. Sharp drop-offs and mul tiple signs began to warn about a particu larly deadly curve (smoothed over by new 441 now). Just before the curve, a reli gious billboard on the hillside read “Pre pare Now, For Thy End Is Near.” Banks County took traffic hazards seriously. It wasn’t the end, 40 years ago, and much of Historic 441 is still there to enjoy. Even with Dillard’s Gulf station gone, the winding old highway preserves a segment of North Georgia’s history. Rudi Kiefer, Ph.D., is a professor at Brenau University, teaching physical and health sciences on Brenau’s Georgia campuses and in China. His column appears Sundays and at gainesvilletimes.com. TODAY IN HISTORY On this date: In 1770, Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15. In 1868, at the U.S. Senate impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, 35 out of 54 senators voted to find Johnson guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors” over his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, falling one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict; the trial ended 10 days later after two other articles of impeachment went down to defeat as well. In 1920, Joan of Arc was canonized by Pope Benedict XV. In 1939, the federal government began its first food stamp pro gram in Rochester, New York. In 1943, the nearly month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the Great Synagogue. In 1953, Associated Press correspondent William N. Oatis was released by Communist authorities in Czechoslovakia, where he had been imprisoned for two years after being forced to confess to espionage while working as the AP’s Prague bureau chief. In 1966, China launched the Cultural Revolution, a radical as well as deadly reform movement aimed at purging the country of “counter-revolutionaries.” In 1975, Japanese climber JunkoTabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. In 1984, comedian Andy Kaufman died in Los Angeles at age 35. In 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court, in California v. Greenwood, ruled that police could search discarded garbage without a search war rant. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released a report declaring nicotine was addictive in ways similar to heroin and cocaine. In 1990, death claimed entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. in Los Angeles at age 64 and “Muppets” creator Jim Henson in New York at age 53. BIRTHDAYS Jazz musician Billy Cob- ham is 76. Actor Danny Trejo is 76. Actor Bill Smitrovich is 73. Actor Pierce Brosnan is 67. Actress Debra Winger is 65. Olympic gold medal gymnast Olga Korbut is 64. Actress Mare Winning- ham is 61. Rock musician Boyd Tinsley (The Dave Matthews Band) is 56. Singer Janet Jackson is 54. Actor David Boreanaz is 51. Political correspon dent Tucker Carlson is 51. Actress Tracey Gold is 51. International Tennis Hall of Famer Gabriela Sabatini is 50. Country singer Rick Trevino is 49. Musi cian Simon Katz is 49. TV personality Bill Rancic is 49. Actor Khary Payton is 48. Actress Tori Spelling is 47. Actor Sean Carrigan is 46. Singer-rapper B. Slade is 45. Actress Lynn Collins is 43. Actor Jim Sturgess is 42. Actor Jo seph Morgan is 39. DJ Alex Pall (The Chainsmokers) is 35. Actress Megan Fox is 34. Actor Drew Roy is 34. Actor Jacob Zachar is 34. Actor-comedian Jer maine Fowler is 32. Actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster is 30. Actor Marc John Jef feries is 30. TODAY IN HISTORY PHOTO Associated Press These high school boys, carrying hoes and lunches, march into fields near Puyallup, Wash., May 16, 1942 after “enlisting” in a special labor corps to help ease the Pacific Northwest farm labor shortage. The youths work Saturday, and are paid 50 cents an hour — the same scale as for adult labor on same jobs. | The calendar of events will return at a later date, HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY ARIES (March 21-April 19). There’s beauty in rigidity. There’s beauty in flexibility. There’s beauty in however things are right now. As long as you’re looking for beauty, you will find it. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Everywhere you look, you’ll see the attention-seeking traps of our narcissistic age. You are called by modesty and service; in this way, you’ll stand out from the crowd. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). What task will move the needle for you today? What is the one thing that’s going to make you feel accomplished when your head hits the pillow tonight? Start with that. Anything else is gravy. CANCER (June 22-July 22). People wear a series of masks to be taken away one by one with those they begin go know, like and trust. You’re getting to who a person really is. This is nothing to rush. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There’s a reason they call it “the cour age of your convictions.” The conviction comes with a bag of courage. When you commit to fully to the action, there will be no room for anything like doubt. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Cre ation is one process. Analysis is another process. Separate the two, and you’ll be comfort able and focused inside each separate process. This will bring about your best work. LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 23). There are natural forces of attraction at work in your day, and they will play an even more preva lent role once you become aware of them enough to con sciously engage in this dance. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). If you are working too hard at something, then you’ll become resentful and bitter. To figure out a better, smarter, shorter route is not the lazy thing; rather, it’s what’s best for all. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). It can be unnerving to see others doing the very thing you want to be doing, but don’t let their success shake you up. Mind your own journey. Yours is coming. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You enjoy the challenge that comes with getting to know another person and are almost annoyed when you find out too much too soon. It takes the fun out of discovery! This principle works in reverse, too. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Being aware of what thrills you will clue you in to the sort of goals you can really get behind. After all, if you’re go ing to commit to something, shouldn’t it hold a great poten tial to excite you? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). What’s the difference between an ordinary magician and a great one, a plate of food and a culinary feat, a movement and a dance? Presentation. You’ll add your flourish.
