As you travel on Highway 280W in southwest Georgia, you may catch a glimpse of a baseball field just outside of Plains. If you turn back the clock to one of the many early evenings between 1976 and 1980, you might notice a softball game underway. It wasn’t your typical high school roster of players […]
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The Bicentennial, the Candidate and the Carriage
Do you know where you were 45 years ago? OK, here’s a hint…it was the Fourth of July. And it was 1976. America’s Bicentennial. Democratic candidate for president Jimmy Carter speaks at Westville, Ga. on the American Bicentennial.©Ken Hawkins for TIME Magazine I was on the presidential campaign trail with Jimmy Carter. We were in […]
Trying to Out-Carter Carter
In journalism, one of the things early learned is that a reporter or photographer should dress for the occasion that he or she is covering. If you’re working a State dinner at the White House, the appropriate garb is a tux…or at the minimum – a dark suit. You want to blend in. To be accepted […]