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ATHENS NEWS AND VIEWS
Kudos on Campus: It's nice when things come
full circle. Almost two years after this writer
did a story about the fixing-up of the Old
Athens Cemetery on Jackson Street, his
morning bike ride to work one October day
brought him by the cemetery gate, where a
crew of cool guys from Virginia had returned
with their expertise in preservation masonry
to continue their specialty work. (The bum-
persticker on their work van was the first
reminder that we'd met before: "We Rock Old
School.") Around that time came the news
that the feds have added the cemetery to the
National Register of Historic Places, which
is a well-deserved mile marker in the ongo
ing work there by Janine Duncan of the UGA
Grounds Division. Good news.
Campus and Community: The folks at UGA's
Institute for African American Studies are
to be commended in advance of the event
for putting together this week's symposium
titled "Beyond the
Movement: Global
and Contemporary
Freedom Struggles."
The whole schedule
from Saturday, Nov.
7 through Monday,
Nov. 9 looks interest
ing—find it at www.
uga.edu/iaas or on
Facebook—and the
symposium wraps up
on Monday evening
at Cine (7 p.m.),
when local elementary
school writers share
the stage with nation
ally known poets and
writers from the UGA
faculty and beyond.
Forging productive
relationships between
gown and town is still
a big task in Athens,
and events like this
one can't help but
move things forward.
Okay, Here's Some
Politics: Sort of. City Dope is just curious why
Rep. Paul Broun, Jr.'s press secretary, Pepper
Pennington, would choose to extend the
alliteration theme from her name (no beef
here with the name—honestly) to her press
release on the House Democrats' health care
bill, titled "Pelosi Presents a Partisan Public
Option." Maybe Pennington let Paul produce
this particular piece of propaganda? The
congressman's criticisms of the bill are rather
thin—"government takeover," "behind closed
doors," etc.—so is he up there just concen
trating his efforts on the poesy of it all?
Politics Is Local, Too: Permanent mayoral can
didate Charlie Maddox came by the office last
week to invite us to his 2010 campaign kickoff
Tuesday, Nov. 3 from 5:30 to 7:30 at the
Lyndon House. That's a little weird, not just
because Maddox has basically been running
since the day he lost the '06 race, but also
because City Dope recalls a courthouse-steps
announcement back in May of this year for the
2010 race. Oh, yeah—almost no one showed
up, so that one morphed into a nice chat over
coffee, actually, between Maddox, his man Jeff
Snowden, City Dope, the ABH"s Blake Aued
and the young outsider mayoral candidate
Brandon Shinholser, who had shown up at the
courthouse. Anyway, does the question that
lingered after that meeting (and after '06) still
remain? Has Maddox found a message yet?
Urban Naturalist's Notebook: For all you hip
birdwatchers, an interesting fall migration
season is just coming to an end here in town.
Back in September City Dope saw his first-
ever Philadelphia Vireo gulping down a big
bug in a little oak tree out in the middle of
the Kroger parking lot at Alps shopping cen
ter, and around that time his pal Clark Jones
reported a Palm Warbler in one of the maples
out front of Copper Creek Brewing Company.
(Clark reported a few ale sightings that night,
too.) That sweet, high whistling song you
hear in your yards all of a sudden comes from
our winter-resident White-Throated Sparrows,
newly arrived from their Canadian breeding
grounds. There: four years at Flagpole and
finally a birdy nerd-out in print!
What Else? Water:
Here's a belated note
on a news item that
hit the New York Times
and some other out
lets in early October,
but it's very important
around here, nonethe
less. The Times story,
about a research
paper out of Columbia
University, is head
lined "Southeast
Drought Study Ties
Water Shortage to
Population, Not
Global Warming."
(Boldface mine.)
That's pretty much
the gist of it, too.
It may be the case
that weather affected
some areas more than
others in '07 and all,
but the lesson herein
on population growth
is undeniably crucial.
Looking ahead, then,
it's ever more .clear that the South is playing
catch-up. That's fortunately not the end of the
world, but while thoughts of "more popula
tion" may bring "more reservoirs" to mind, it's
not difficult to learn that the quickest, cheap
est, longest lasting solutions are those that
are rooted in improving water efficiency. If
only the water-war-embattled governor and
his people would get real about efficiency in
infrastructure and plumbing, we as a state
might be getting somewhere.
Final Disclosure:*The above passage admit
tedly blurs the lines heavily between the
job I'm leaving and the job(s) I'm starting,
but get over it—it's the last time you'll hear
from me in City Dope anyway. I'm staying in
town, though, and am now working for the
Altamaha Riverkeeper organization on pro
moting water efficiency in Athens along with
other efforts in the Oconee River basin, plus
working part-time for Georgia River Network
here in town. I'll be in touch, and all y'all
should keep in touch with Dave Marr, the new
City Editor here at Flagpole, okay? It's news@
flagpole.com. Peace out. It's been fun.
Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com
The Georgia Theatre was declared ‘‘safe for the
media" last week, so the Dope was allowed to view
its impressively cleared-out innards. The large steel
beam in the foreground is one of two that will remain
in place—for decorative and commemorative pur
poses only—when the building is restored.
4 FLAGPOLE.COM • NOVEMBER 4,2009