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Rivers, Rogues, & Timbermen in the Novels of Brainard Cheney
On Christmas Eve night 1902 in Telfair county, Georgia, near the town of Jacksonville, a Christmas tree-lighting celebration had just ended at a rural church, built on the site of an old Indian fort near the Ocmulgee River. One of the churchgoers stepped outside, carrying his infant daughter in his arms. Adjusting his coat against the winter wind, he felt in his pockets for his pipe and set the little girl down for a moment. As he lit his pipe, shots rang out and he fell dead, bleeding out into the cold Georgia dust. Children and adults alike screamed and scattered. This was the final shot fired in what later became known as the Georgia Squatters War. Brainard Cheney, a Lumber City, Georgia,...
Lightwood
LIGHTWOOD the novel appeared originally in 1939. Set in the piney woods of south Georgia just after the Civil War, it tells the story of a struggle between local land owners and Northern investors. The investors sought to harvest the "wooden treasures" of virgin pine forests. Over time, they used the power of money and the courts to wrest the title to the lands. A labyrinthine legal battle stretched out for more than half a century, culminating in the murder of the Company's land agent, along with as many as 35 more deaths. Based on historical fact, Cheney's novel brings to life a lost time in our history. Reviewed nationally on publication, it highlighted Cheney's friendship and literary connection to many of the Fugitive and Agrarian movement figures. A companion volume, THE LIGHTWOOD CHRONICLES tells both the fictional and true stories of LIGHTWOOD.
Devil's Elbow
Marcellus Hightower returns to his hometown as a grown man. Adam Atwell, a black man in the segregated South, shares with Marcellus the haunting memory of David Ransom's murder on the mighty Ocmulgee River. The memories interweave with a quarter century of Marcellus Hightower's quest for love and redemption, through his developing character, economic calamity and the turmoil of war. With Adam's sage guidance, he finds a way to "cleanse his heart" and face life anew.
The Lightwood Chronicles
The Lightwood Chronicles tells the epic story of a violent struggle over land rights. The novel Lightwood told the story in fiction. The Chronicles offers the historical background and also celebrates the work of Brainard Cheney, author of Lightwood. Following the Civil War, another war broke out in the piney woods of south Georgia between Northern land barons-the Dodge Company-and local landowners. The Dodge Company began harvesting the ancient pine forests and shipping the timber to customers worldwide. They made hundreds of millions of dollars in the process. They evicted the squatters from land occupied for decades. Epic court battles led to violent struggle and murder. Angry "squatters"demanded that "the Dodges be sent hellward." An alleged conspiracy led to the murder of Captain John Forsyth, the timber company boss. Prominent citizens went to prison and many others died. The Dodge Company left the majestic pine forests a wasteland, with 300,000 acres of wooden treasure ransacked, the lives of the natives forever altered.
Letters from Sister
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This Is Adam
Georgia, 1910. The widow Lucy Hightower looks to her land overseer, Adam Atwell, a black man, to protest her children's future. Their business partnership--unusual in the segregated south--pits them against bankers and speculators out to steal the Hightower land. Adam faces murder, financial ruin, and the specter of Jim Crow as he fights for Lucy's legacy to her children.
Possessing Nature
"As a study of late Renaissance naturalists, the science they practised, and the fit between that science and late Renaissance court life, the book has no rival."—Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
Selected Sketches of Dodge County, Georgia History
The Selected Sketches contains essays, stories, photographs and related material on the rich history of Dodge County, Georgia. Dodge County is situated in south Georgia in the Wiregrass area of the state. Founded in 1870, the County was opened up by the coming of the railroads after the Civil War. The county seat of Eastman sprang up as a town descended from Station Number 13 on the Macon and Brunswick Railroad. The Selected Sketches includes essays and photographs depicting the rich history of the county and its several generations of pioneer citizens into the present day. A series of photographs give a good idea of the growth and development in Dodge County's early days.
Blackledges in America
Blackledges in America (ISBN 0-9722704-0-X ) is a genealogy of Blackledge/Blacklidge descendants with family roots in the United States of America. This First Edition was the most extensive genealogy and history ever of the Blackledge/Blacklidge family in the USA. The book represented over 30 years of research captured in 900 pages: some 9000 descendants, most with genealogical narratives.
