For those of you who missed our recent Boomersinathens.org Winterville: History of a Railroad Town community snapshot program at the historic Winterville train depot, here’s a link to the video of the program on Youtube: Winterville: History of a Railroad Town. And here’s a link that we made to promote this Winterville History program. This…
Breaking news in Winterville, GA: The GREAT PUMPKINÂ is spotted near Town Square. The city of Marigolds has been invaded by a giant orange melon as big as a storage building and numerous smaller collaborators! Linus believed in the Great Pumpkin in Charles M. Schulz’s comic strip Peanuts. Anyone passing by the huge display of…
Winterville United Methodist Church’s newly retired pianist, Mary Whitehead, has filled the church on the square’s sanctuary and our small town with music for 75 years. That’s a lifetime of tapping the keys for Jesus and for Mary’s neighbors and friends. I got a chance to visit with Mary briefly the other night while standing…
One of the most popular events in the little town of Winterville, Georgia, where I’ve lived for many years, is the Christmas in Winterville celebration. This year, this event takes place on Friday, December 3. It begins with the arrival of Santa and Mrs. Claus. In Winterville, they don’t fly in on a sleigh pulled…
Winterville’s Front Porch Book Store opened for business one year ago in a tiny building on Marigold Lane that once housed city hall. In just a few short months, this store, which provides funds for the Winterville library, has become a community gathering place, as well as a great source of reading material at reasonable…
I’m a native of Athens, Georgia, but for many years I’ve lived in nearby Winterville, a tiny municipality of approximately 1,200, located in Eastern Clarke County. We’ve had a branch of the Athens Regional Library in Winterville (115 Marigold Lane) for a very long time. Today, I’m happy to announce that the Friends of the…
Today is August, 19, 2009, five days until the official publication of my debut novel, GONE FROM THESE WOODS. Of course I’m getting excited and I hope you are, too. In celebration of the publication, I’m going to talk today about the woods in GFTW. My inspiration for the woods in my book came from…
Here’s an opportunity to learn more about the city of Winterville, Georgia, the town I’ve lived in since 1992. I also lived in the Winterville community, outside the city limits, for several years as a child and young adult, starting at age 11, and attended sixth grade at Winterville Elementary School, in the old building…
I live in a small Georgia town called Winterville. We have about 1,100 citizens here, give or take a Wintervillian or two. Starting in 1971, we held an annual Marigold Festival that brought thousands of people here and generated much good will while basically putting us on the map, so to speak. I worked on…
