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Columns

What’s a gem clip?

Funny how the passing of generations often brings about changes in the language and the meaning of certain words. Recently on a Delta flight to ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Tuesday, January 15, 2019 5:45 pm

Opinion

Fishing on the Chattahoochee

The poems of Sidney Lanier resonate with this Georgia cracker who finds the greatest pleasure in revisiting, often in the shower, the inspiring and fulfilling ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Wednesday, October 3, 2018 5:39 pm

Columns

Remembering the good old days

In all likelihood, a hundred years from now, the incumbent generation will be reflecting on their “good old days.”  Just as it is now with ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Wednesday, September 26, 2018 5:49 pm

Columns

There’s no place like Colorado

DENVER, Col. — Even with the adjacent Rocky Mountains, whose peaks are always snow-capped — July 4th is no different from New Year’s Day — ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Tuesday, October 24, 2017 7:00 pm

Columns

Appalachia Museum

The Museum of Appalachia allows one to step back in time and is a reminder that even today with all the remarkable technological advances that ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Wednesday, October 11, 2017 6:38 pm

Columns

Harvest moon

The harvest moon is nothing more than a full moon which appears nearest the start of fall. According to a modicum of research, the harvest ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Tuesday, October 3, 2017 11:06 pm

Columns

Looking back at UGA greats

The seventies were schizophrenic years for Georgia football. A good season was followed by a lean year with stability and consistency in short supply. ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Monday, September 25, 2017 8:10 pm

Columns

Favorite memories of autumn’s past

With the intensity of the heat in day light hours, there is discomfort about these days, but we know fall is coming when the sun ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Tuesday, September 19, 2017 9:29 pm

Columns

Dawgs-Irish settled before

SOUTH BEND, Indiana­— In the time that has expired since New Year’s Day 1981, in New Orleans, involving a Super Dome skirmish that had major ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Sunday, September 10, 2017 4:41 pm

Columns

Notre Dame

There is nothing quite like being hated and also envied in the sports arena. Some examples are the Yankees in baseball, the Patriots in ... Read more

by Loran Smith, Monday, September 4, 2017 8:41 pm

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