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One Place
Though artistic and ambitious, Paul Kwilecki (1928-2009) chose to remain in Bainbridge, Georgia, the small Decatur County town where he was born, raised, and ran the family's hardware store. He had always been interested in photography and taught himself how to use a camera. Over four decades, he documented life in his community, making hundreds of masterful and intimate black-and-white prints. Kwilecki developed his visual ideas in series of photographs of high school proms, prison hog killings, shade-tree tobacco farming, factory work, church life, the courthouse. He also wrote eloquently about the people and places he so poignantly depicted, and in this book his unique knowledge is powerfully articulated in more than 200 photographs and selected prose. Paul Kwilecki worked alone, his correspondence with important photographers his only link to the larger art world. Despite this isolation, Kwilecki's work became widely known. "Decatur County is home," he said, "and I know it from my special warp, having been both nourished and wounded by it."
Descendants of William Cromartie and Ruhamah Doane
This ambitious work chronicles 250 years of the Cromartie family genealogical history. Included in the index of nearly fifty thousand names are the current generations, and all of those preceding, which trace ancestry to our family patriarch, William Cromartie, who was born in 1731 in Orkney, Scotland, and his second wife, Ruhamah Doane, who was born in 1745. Arriving in America in 1758, William Cromartie settled and developed a plantation on South River, a tributary of the Cape Fear near Wilmington, North Carolina. On April 2, 1766, William married Ruhamah Doane, a fifth-generation descendant of a Mayflower passenger to Plymouth, Stephen Hopkins. If Cromartie is your last name or that of on...
One Place
One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia
Decatur/Early Counties, Georgia, Newspaper Clippings
The articles extracted contain information about marriages, deaths, elections, legal notices, sheriff's sales, jury lists and unclaimed letters left in local post offices. The author notes newspapers for Early and Decatur Counties were not well kept and many editions are now missing. Articles are extracted from available issues of the Bainbridge Argus, the Early County news; the Southern Georgian, which later became the Bainbridge weekly sun; and the Bainbridge Democrat. No papers could be located for the years 1866-1868.
