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Though best known for its international golf tournament, the “Garden City” of 202,000 has a profusion of private gardens and dazzling spring flowers, plenty of history and everything Southern in food from grits and gravy to pecan pie to soul food shacks to fine dining.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Ever since Bobby Jones organized the first Masters at Augusta National in 1934, the international tournament has become the holy grail of every golfer hankering to play on its hallowed links or at least snag a coveted ticket to walk the 18-hole course alongside the greats of the sport: Woods, Mickelson, Scheffler, McIlroy and Fowler.

AUGUSTA, Ga.—Ever since Bobby Jones organized the first Masters at Augusta National in 1934, the international tournament has become the holy grail of every golfer hankering to play on its

Georgia’s gift to the golfing universe is the Masters, and the Masters certainly helped put Augusta on the map.

Amplifying Atlanta

TIFTON- Tifton Masonic Lodge 47 and Tiftarea Daylight Lodge 745 recently donated $25,000 to establish the new Roy Jackson, Sr. Masonic Scholarship for students at Southern Regional Technical College. Both

Michael Thurmond, a Georgia politician and the current CEO of DeKalb County, discussed his newly released book titled “James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder’s Journey from Slave Trader to

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgias colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of James Edward Oglethorpe left him stunned speechless.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Black author says Georgias white founding father deserves credit for inspiring the abolitionist movement that ultimately ended slavery. A new book by Michael Thurmond titled "James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia" focuses on Oglethorpes failed attempt to ban slavery after starting Britains 13th American colony in 1733. Historians have widely dismissed Oglethorpes effort as a naive failure, considering that by the time of the Civil War Georgia would have more ...

A Black author says Georgias white founding father deserves credit for inspiring the abolitionist movement that ultimately ended slavery. A new book by Michael Thurmond titled “James Oglethorpe, Father of