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Vote Now for Athens Favorites
OK, folks, it's time to vote for your favorite Athens restau
rants, stores, bars, services, etc. You can do it online at www.
flagpole.com. Just click on the colorful "bug" and get started.
This is your chance to recognize the places that make up your
Athens, and believe me, they appreciate it. It means a lot to
a business to be publicly recognized for what they do, and
"favorite" plaques are always prominently displayed at the rec
ognized businesses.
This is a serious endeavor, but it's a lot of fun, too, to be
reminded of the places you like and to get the opportunity
to give them a pat on the back, a leg up, a salute. Flagpoie's
Athens Favorites 2013 is your opportunity to give a shout out
to the places that make Athens Athens, and all you need to
enter is your own opinions, your own tastes, your own favor
ites. It takes a little time, because the list is long, and there
are a lot of categories. But it's easy, and you'll find it enjoy
able to recall all the places that have given you so much plea
sure during the year. Make your choices count! Vote now. Help
award the plaques to your own favorites. Deadline: Feb. 6.
Hear the 01' Bloviator
Flagpoie readers know Jim Cobb as the author of the occa
sional column and blog, "Cobbloviate," his humorously, self-
deprecatingly titled venue for rants, generally about politics
and usually having to do with issues pertinent to the South.
Those who make it to the end of "Cobbloviate" have also no
doubt noticed in the iden
tifying tag line that Cobb
is "The B. Phinizy Spalding
Distinguished Professor in
the History of the South at
UGA."
That's not an empty title.
It's an endowed chair named
in honor of the historian
and community activist
who fought, financed and
charmed on behalf of pre
serving Athens when all of
it was in danger of being
torn down for "progress."
Cobb, who is not one
of "those" Cobbs, is in
many ways the antithesis
of Spalding, who was one
of "those" Spaldings. Cobb
grew up on a one-tractor
dirt farm in Hart County,
GA, finished the public schools there and then came over here
to the university and didn't leave until he had earned his
doctorate. Since then, he has distinguished himself with his
publications and his teaching at prominent institutions around
the South, including the University of Mississippi and the
University of Tennessee, before coming back to his alma mater.
Now, you have the opportunity to hear Cobb speak, as the
leadoff hitter in the prestigious new Global Georgia Initiative,
a series of lectures organized by UGA's Jane and Harry Willson
Center for Humanities and Arts (where former Flagpole News
Editor Dave Marr is now in charge of public relations). "Its goal
is to present global problems in a local context by address
ing pressing contemporary questions???including the economy,
society and the environment???with a focus on how the arts
and humanities can intervene."
Cobb is a great choice to start this series, because he is
serious as grits about the history of the South and has devoted
his life to unremitting hard, lonely, illuminating work, yet he
doesn't take himself too seriously. In other words, though he is
the consummate scholar, he is not a pedant, so you should not
be scared by his title: "Demystifying Dixie: Southern History
and Culture in Global Perspective." If you show up for this free
inaugural lecture, you are guaranteed to learn something about
the South and the world and enjoy doing it, with refreshments
afterward.
The fun takes place in the Chapel on campus at 4 p.m. this
Tuesday, Jan. 29. Flagpole is a sponsor, and I get to introduce
Cobb.
Jim Cobb
Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com
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