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...Egyptians who, having walked from the Nile Valley to the Americas before continental drift separated the landmasses, are actually the original Native Americans. York and several hundred of his followers wandered from New York to Georgia in 1993, buying up 476 acres of land on the perimeter of Eatonton for $575,000. And now, as a tribe of Native Americans, the Nuwaubians believe they can argue for being a sovereign people not subject to local or state jurisdiction...
...Supreme Being of This Day and Time, God in Flesh." And by the way, says the native of the planet Rizq, a spaceship is coming on May 5, 2003, to scoop up believers. The believers have been making quite a spectacle in the tiny town of Eatonton, Ga. (pop. 5,000), seat of the not much larger Putnam County (pop. 17,000). There, the man born Dwight York, of Sullivan County, N.Y., decreed the founding of Tama-Re, Egypt of the West, a 19-acre evocation of the ancient land, complete with 40-ft. pyramids, obelisks, gods, goddesses...
...members of the Putnam County N.A.A.C.P. are Nuwaubians. The people in the county, 30% black and 70% white, expect the Nuwaubians to flex their muscle at the polls any time now. "They're the nicest people," says a young white waitress at Rusty's, a small diner in downtown Eatonton. "But I'm afraid they are trying to take over the town...
...Eatonton, Ga., and wanted to see a movie at the Pex theater, Alice Walker had to sit in the balcony reserved for blacks. But last week, dear God, Walker, 41, was triumphantly downstairs. The Pex literally put out the red carpet for the Pulitzer prizewinning writer, who used her hometown as the inspiration for her best-selling novel The Color Purple. Much of Eatonton (pop. 4,800) turned out for a benefit screening of the film based on her book. "I think of this movie as a gift to you," Walker told the audience of friends and family...
...Connecticut (where one out of every three farmhands has quit) employment services began registering high-school and college students for summer farm work. Many an Illinois farmer harvested his asparagus crop by hiring high-school children in their spare hours. In Eatonton and some other Georgia towns, police rounded up street loafers, gave them their choice of going to work on farms or to jail. Moaned one farmer: "I'm begging now for the same sorry type of workers I would have run off my farm three years...