Georgia Books

This is the companion catalog to the O'Keeffe exhibition at the Phillips gallery in Washington, DC, and is a wonderful volume on O'Keeffe whether or not you were fortunate enough to see this exhibition. What impressed me most about the exhibition (and the book) is how intelligently it was put together. It examines O'Keeffe's development as an artist by tracking both her philosphy and her influences, and some rarely shown works were chosen to represent this in the exhibition (and are reproduced in the book). Of all the books on O'Keeffe that I've read, and of all the exhibitions I've seen of her work, this one by far does the best job of explaining both the artist and her work.

I sent this book as a gift, based on the glowing review on this page. My donee/friend wrote: "What a wonderful surprise and delight the O'Keefe book has brought me today! It is indeed something very special, with elegant color illustrations, plus many photos from various times of her life, and biographical details all through the text. There is a wonderful photo of her (by Ansel Adams) -- she wears a dark sweater, and is sitting, sketching, at the rocky entrance to what may be a cave --- and all of her design ideas seem to be there in the photo: her own interesting form, contrasts of dark and light, austerity yet beautiful rhythms....I had no idea what a pathfinder she was, going her own road by interpreting objects in an entirely personal way. Everything has her magic touch. The color plates are excellent." I have her permission to send these comments to you.

"Georgia on my Menu: A Medley of Southern Hits truly can be said to represent two areas of life with which Georgians are intimately acquainted - the appreciation of fine Southern cooking and the desire to have music in one's life." ~Beverly Webb

Georgia on my menu is an authentic cookbook filled with delicious recipes celebrating fine Southern cooking and a rich cultural heritage. Cooks can begin with Overtures and Preludes, serve an Accompaniment along with a recipe from the Encore section and then complete the meal with a Finale. A Traditional Georgian Dinner may include a Baked Ham, Spoon Bread, Southern Style Green Beans, Baked Squash, Deep Dish Peach Cobbler and Southern Mint Tea.

Special Occasion Menus include a Fireside Dinner for Six, Birthday Dinners, Barbecues and even a New Year's Eve Buffet. Unique Recipes include Mock Champagne (made with pineapple juice and soda), Apricot Wine Soup, Fresh Curried Peaches, Pork Loin Roast with Cherry Sauce, Chicken Breasts Oscar, Cumin Rice, Crème De Menthe Brownies and Kahlua Fondue.

Traditional Favorites also include: Baklava, Mexican Casserole, Yorkshire Pudding, Chocolate Cakes, Strawberry Pie and Cheesecake.

I've rarely seen a cookbook filled with such a wide variety of cultural and regional favorites. The selections are tempting, imaginative and adventurous. I feel very fortunate to have found a cookbook that is not only highly collectible, but has recipes I remember from when I lived in the South. If you enjoy Southern cooking, this will be a very exciting find!

Purchasing this cookbook helps to support childcare centers, art museums, teachers, emergency shelters and other projects and activities by the Junior League of Cobb-Marietta, Inc.

~The Rebecca Review

I use this cookbook all the time! It has easy recipes that taste great. Everyone always raves about how I can make an ordinary meal taste wonderful. My secret is this cookbook. I have also given this cookbook to several friends who all agree that this is one cookbook you can't do without.

Where did the name of Social Circle, Ga, come from? How about Ball Ground? Or Dark Corner? And what counties are they in? It's all in this book.

We have used the 1975 edition so much that the pages are actually coming out. It gives the history of each place, origin(s) of the name, and other interesting info. You don't want to be without it when encountering interesting towns, creeks, mountains, and counties in your travels through Georgia.

Where did the name of Social Circle, Ga, come from? How about Ball Ground? Or Dark Corner? And what counties are they in? It's all in this book.

We have used the 1975 edition so much that the pages are actually coming out. It gives the history of each place, origin(s) of the name, and other interesting info. You don't want to be without it when encountering interesting towns, creeks, mountains, and counties in your travels through Georgia.

Sadly now out of print (try eBay!), this book had me in stitches for days!

Wow, if you need information on the simultaneous generation of stereoscopic views then you need to get to know the work of Stephen J. Adelson.

This is an excellent historical account of blacks in Glynn County and is a valuable tool for African Americans. It dispells the many myths that have existed for years concerning the quality of separate education. Many of the blacks featured here excelled in their efforts long before intergration. I applaud the
private schools that cared enough to give the best and I applaud those early settlers who demonstrated courage and valour. In addition I thank the author for having the insight to record the events that most history books refuse to tell. This is a first for blacks in Glynn County.

I happen to be in this book. Two cousins of mine contributed some of the material for this book and included some of my achievements. Ironically, the first person shown in the book is an old man to whom I used to take meals when I was seven- or eight-years old (prepared by my mother or grandmother, of course). I agree that the educational system during my childhood was pretty good. I left Brunswick, Georgia with only an eighth grade education, yet found that I could compete in the workforce with college graduates. I intend to get copies of this book for my children and grandchildren so they can visualize my origins. Major E. Magwood

When I returned home to Savannah after being gone almost 25 years, the first place I wanted to visit was Gottlieb's Bakery. Sadly, a short time later, they closed their doors for the last time. I brought my NY-born daughter with me and wanted her to try my favorite dessert in the world. She had heard about it all her life. While it was still unique and delicious, not sharing it with my mom took away a little of the magic. But having my own daughter to share it with made up for that. A cookbook filled with childhood memories of a bygone time. Now everyone in the US and beyond can savor the recipes I grew up on. Wonderful book. Wonderful memories.

I have had this cookbook for about 10 years. I am always using it for the pastry recipes. I honestly feel that my reputation as a GREAT baker has been established by the use of this book. The writing style is wonderful and warm, such as, 'don't even think of using butter flavor shortening!' I love it and would recommend it to everyone, new and experienced bakers!

Grace under Fire by Charlotte Russell Johnson will show you first hand how to make any homegoing a celebration of life. A funeral should be a time for a family to bond. Planning a funeral is very complicated. It involves a great deal of coordination and organization at a time when you are probably not feeling very organized. Surviving the death of a loved one is very difficult. You experience so many emotions including anger, death, sadness, remorse, and even relief if the loved one was suffering. Now add additional family problems to the equation and you will need to experience Grace from God while under Fire. Ms. Johnson does not demean the experience, but rather offers humor as a way of relieve the pain. Even the Bible says, "Laughter doeth good like a medicine Every funeral should be a celebration of life. This book changed my life and view of death.

Charlotte Johnson is a very talented author. She is able to capture the very essence of the tremendous triad of being African-American, female, and southern. The richness of her writings leans the reader into envisioning that they are sharing in each experience. This book is thought provoking, ensightful, and a much needed analysis of life long love, forgiveness, infidelity, passion, and the search for the perfect union and soulmate. I was hooked on the book after reading the Introducton on page 13. My desire is that every one that I know has an opportunity to experience life through the eyes of Charlotte Russell Johnson.


I have read each of Ms. Johnson's book. She is able to touch her readers in a very intimate way. Initially, I thought the book was about grief and then half way through the book it surprised me. Every reader can identify with being overwhelmed and pressured to make a life altering decision

I started reading this book in the beauty shop. I was so excited that I audibly exclaimed 'oh'. I wish Oprah would have a book this exciting on her show instead of some of her recent books. It was easy for me to see the main characters dilemna. I thing everyone has had to make a choice to trust and love or embrace loneliness. After reading the book, I was forced to ask myself some questions about my own romantic life.

GROUNDED GLOBALISM: HOW THE U.S. SOUTH EMBRACES THE WORLD is a pick for college-level libraries strong in either Southern history and culture or world history. It charts how the South and its peoples and businesses are 'going global', how it's been affected by demographic and economic changes, and how globalism has affected the southern sense of self. GROUNDED GLOBALISM comes from an anthropologist but crosses genres in examining history, religion, ecology and other influences on southern cultural evolution.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Grounded Globalism builds a fascinating model for the new South on an original insight: that globalization fundamentally transforms the region by transcending its oppositional identity to the North and subsuming it into the greater framework of the world as a whole. The crippling burden of history is lifted, freeing the South to soar, and yet to remain grounded in its regional specificity: the world is not truly flat, as Tom Friedman postulates.
Author James Peacock traces the forging of Southern history from its expansive early period to its nineteenth century definition by secession, civil war, reconstruction, and forward to its transformation by globalization in the new millennium. He makes a compelling case for the embrace of globalization by the new South, arguably contributing to its dominance in areas ranging from the economic to the political. Charlotte, North Carolina, is headquarters for Bank of America and Wachovia, Atlanta, Georgia for CNN, Raleigh for SAS. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, Southerners both, ranked among the most intellectually impressive of American presidents.
The scholarly underpinnings of the book are enlivened by anecdotes and images, making for an insightful and informative contribution to the conversation on regional identity in a globalized world.

This volume of regimental histories of Georgia units in the Civil War is a gem. James Madison Folsom traveled to Virginia near the end of the war and worked directly with the regimental leaders of the units included to compile these histories, along with statistics (e.g., number of men enlisted, killed, wounded, etc.). Civil War history buffs will enjoy reading the histories. Family historians will be especially interested in the histories. My great-great grandfather was a member of the 6th Georgia Volunteer Infantry, and its regimental history is 11 pages in length. Heroes and Martyrs of Georgia provides the most complete source of information about the 6th Georgia regiment that I have been able to find.

Because of the extreme scarcity of the original edition of Heroes and Martyrs of Georgia, few historians have heard of or utilized the book. This is unfortunate, for this volume stands as one of the most important published sources on Georgia troops in the Army of Northern Virginia. Included in Heroes and Martyrs are eighteen detailed histories of infantry, cavalry, and artillery units, most of them written in the summer of 1864 by Confederate officers in the trenches at Petersburg. The author of Heroes and Martyrs, James M. Folsom, originally intended on issuing multiple volumes that would chronicle the service of every military unit raised in Georgia during the Confederacy. Wartime exigencies, including the destruction of his manuscripts at the hands of Sherman's men, and postwar poverty prevented Folsom from ever completing his project. The one volume he was able to publish through the firm of Burke, Boykin, and Company of Macon, Georgia, appeared for sale in the spring of 1865, only weeks before Appomattox. Today fewer than a dozen original copies of Heroes and Martyrs are known to exist in public repositories. This new edition of Heroes and Martyrs of Georgia contains a new introduction and index prepared by Keith S. Bohannon, a doctoral student in the history department at Penn State University and a seasonal historian at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.

An underlying sense of tension and urgency runs like a thread through this exciting mystery and carries you to the surprise ending. I would never have guessed the outcome. Interesting characters and an intriguing plot make this a mystery you won't want to put down.

The characters are intriguing and you won't want to put it down until you find out "who dunnit"!