Although Georgia and Tennessee competed in football in the early 1900’s, the two teams did not play each other from
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Author Archives: Loran Smith
Loran Smith: Peanuts!
During the harvest season in October, I rode by a farm in South Georgia where the harvesting of peanuts was
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Loran Smith: Gen. Robert Neyland, “…all close games are lost by the losers, not won by the winners”
When Georgia opened the season versus Alabama between the hedges in 1959, one of the press box luminaries in attendance
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Grand Georgia Couples: Love at First Sight…Rachel and Joe Decosimo
SIGNAL MOUNTAIN, Tenn. – A most extraordinary couple lives in this affluent mountain town where spring flowers and autumn leaves
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Loran Smith: Vernon and Patricia Brinson
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Owing to a college friendship, I was the beneficiary of the most desired accommodations for
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Loran Smith: The George Bobo Quarterback Tree
Not many fans among the 76,251 in attendance at the Georgia-Florida game on Saturday, were aware of the latent friendships
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Loran Smith: Keith Henderson and Tim Worley
In sports, we always flash back to a time when there was a singular moment that remains unforgettable. You always
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Loran Smith: John Donaldson was an extraordinary outdoorsman
DARIEN – This town is a focal point of the Georgia coast where tradition and history are as entrenched as
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Grand Georgia Couples: Billy and Bonney Shuman
Billy Shuman met Bonney Stamper at a fraternity party in Athens when they were undergraduates at the University of Georgia
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Loran Smith: Catching Up With Arnold Harrison
At a prosperous automobile dealership, everyone is in motion. Nothing is idling except for a smooth-running engine which has just
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Loran Smith: Helen Remembrances
I have had a love affair with this community dating back to the first time I ventured here in the
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Loran Smith: Pumpkin soup and a bottle of Red Stripe
Where I grew up life was centered around “making do.” You never threw anything away. Your mother could make clothes
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Loran Smith On Brock Bowers
If you talk with Brock Bowers about his passions for hunting and fishing and know nothing about his background, you
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Loran Smith: Contour Coke
In those days when I started observing what was going on around me, I noticed that there were several people
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Grand Georgia Couples: Alice and John Sands
It came naturally that Alice and John Sands, a generous Bulldog couple, would grow up with Georgia on their minds.
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Loran Smith: Missing My High School Friend
A close friend from my high school years passed away in the last fortnight, and I’m ‘hurtin. With a busy
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Remembering Pat Dye
A journey over to Auburn always brings about reflections of times spent with Pat Dye on his farm near Notasulga,
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Grand Georgia Couples – Cecilia and Sonny Seiler
Over the years, I have often thought about the many husband-wife teams that have served UGA well. That begs a
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