Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years." Now Georgia State Legislator. Larry Thomason has earnestly set off with Geodetic Survey maps to claim Georgia's lost territories. Thomason has even planted a Georgia flag 500 yds. north of the accepted boundary. If Thomason's claim were to stick, the entire southern half of Chattanooga would sink into Georgia, and Tennessee's Senator William Brock would be out of a job, since his Lookout Mountain residence would be inside Georgia...
...Chattanooga, Tenn...
...median of Middle Americans, giant of the jaycees. To Brock, citizenship is service. He could see the need more than a decade ago from his office in the family candy firm, when he was appalled by a survey that showed widespread functional illiteracy below the levels of the Chattanooga society in which he lived. He and his friends organized their own training program, and Brock started coming down from his plush home atop Lookout Mountain to teach reading and writing to impoverished blacks...
...points south, guitar in hand. "I was born to do it, man," Robertson recalls. "Born to pack my bag and be on my way down the Mississippi River. I was music-crazy, just a total music fanatic. I wanted to see all those places with those fantastic names. Chattanooga, Tenn.?wow! Shreveport, Lu-zee-ana ?wow! I just couldn't wait to drive down that road, you know. All that good music came from there?Robert Johnson, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Junior Parker?and they kept talking about those places in their music...