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...first step backward is shortest, and easiest, and most welcome where there has never really been a wholehearted step forward. So it was that on a bright, late-summer day, farmers, fishermen and their families-6,000 of them in all-flocked to the ramshackle Wallace Shipyards in Thomaston (pop. 2,500) to cheer "that Ackerman boy" as his new two-masted, gaff-rigged schooner slid down the ways and eased majestically into the clean waters of the St. George River, exactly as hundreds of schooners used to do before steamboats, trucks and trains put most of them...
...sought out John Leavitt's widow, Virginia, and invited her to break the obligatory bottle of champagne over the ship's prow at the christening. She did, splashing it all over her face, dampening her snow white hair and proper navy blue dress. The crowd cheered. The Thomaston High School band thumped out a march. Members of the Newmarket militia fired a one-gun salute...
...other dialects: Carolina mountain, Alabama-Tennessee, low country, northern and southern Piedmont. Atlantic coastal plain and Thomaston-Valdosta...
Janie Cottrell, 24, sank into her sofa in a pair of dark blue hot pants, crossed her showgirl legs and said, "I wanted to be a certified welder more than anything in the world." Which is just what she is. Janie graduated from Robert E. Lee Institute in Thomaston, Ga., in 1965, decided to enroll in a business course at the local vocational school. "I didn't like any of it," she says, "especially the charm course. One day in the cafeteria the welding teacher walked by and said, 'What's the matter? You look like...
Hello Whites. The generally good beginning-marred by the bombing of an elementary school scheduled to be desegregated this week in Edgecombe County, N.C.-was exemplified in the semirural district that includes Thomaston, Ga. Most of the 5,700 students went to integrated schools for the first time. Threats of white disruption failed to materialize; a black boycott fizzled...