Special to The Times
The Georgia Genealogical
Society and the Georgia Archives
will
present
a
Summer
Genealogy Picnic at the Archives
on Saturday June 4. The all-day
event, which runs 9:15 a.m. until
4:30 p.m., is free and open to the
public.
Speakers will focus on
genealogical activities that often
take place in the summer, with an
emphasis on ways to encourage
young family historians. Judith
Russell PhD will begin the day
with information about the Ask
Granny program. Valerie Frey,
author of the book
Preserving
Family Recipes: How to Save
and Celebrate Your Food
Traditions
, will speak about heir-
loom recipes for the genealogist.
College student Hunter Gentry
will tell what inspired him to
begin researching his family his-
tory and how to get young people
interested in genealogy with his
presentation Brick Walls and
Breakthroughs: A Teenager’s
Genealogy Journey. To round out
the day, Kenneth Thomas Jr. will
present How to Find Descendants
or Heirs of those Buried in a
Cemetery.
A sandwich lunch with chips,
cookies and lemonade will be
available for a donation. There
also are numerous restaurants in
the area, or participants may
bring lunches.
In addition to exhibits by histor-
ical and genealogical societies,
genealogy books will be for sale
to help with research. The décor
theme will be red-checked table-
cloths and picnic baskets.
Watch the Georgia Genealogical
Society website,
ciety.org, for up-to-date informa-
tion.
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Quips from you to us
Hey Henry, dear Henry County Commissioners - Henry does-
n’t need to attract retailers and eateries that create more
“jobs.” It needs to attract companies that create career
opportunities. Don’t make Henry as much a transitional
county as Atlanta is a transitional city.
Hey Henry, to the jerk who came into Lake Dow Subdivision
in an H3 and didn’t have the respect to slow down and let me
out of the car to cross the street, you need anger management.
It’s a good thing I wasn’t in one of my moods or I would have
wrapped your teeth around your steering wheel.
Hey Henry, is there anywhere to kayak or go tubing in Henry
County? The Porterdale Yak Club is fun, but just wondering
if we have anything like that here?
Hey Henry, to the person complaining about the roof of the
little farmers’ market. How many times have you stopped
and donated to their shingle campaign?
Hey Henry, the residential streets around Stockbridge are
being torn up (cracks, huge pot holes, etc.) by tractor trailer
trucks and excess traffic avoiding the Interstate 75. Why isn’t
a weight limit enforced? Surely something can be done.
Hey Henry, guess who’s not coming to dinner?
Hey Henry, just wondering why they have police directing traf-
fic at the Peachtree Peddlers Flea Market and Sky Zone on the
weekend and never at the intersection of Hwy. 81 and Mill
Road? It is a parking lot at that intersection all of the time.
Hey Henry, hey drivers, when it rains, turn your lights on.
It’s the law. Also, use your blinkers, that’s also the law.
Maybe some of you need to go back over the drivers hand
book. Or do you just not care?
Hey, Henry, a final message to the person(s) who caused me
to break my left foot and left wrist this past October. My foot
and wrist have healed but my thumb and fingers are messed
up from being a cast for so long. Nothing to heal but time. I
forgive you but will never forget as I have constant pain and
I’ll be paying medical bills until the cows come home.
Hey Henry, you’d think with Nash Farms hosting all the
events and being such a “historic landmark” they would take
better care of it. I drove by the other day and the pretty white
fence that used to be out front by the highway is an eyesore of
brown rust! For such a location of “pride” for the County,
why does it look like such an eyesore?
Hey Henry, Democrats are excellent at sin. When they don’t
agree they switch the subject, ignore the facts, then if that
doesn’t work they name call.
Hey Henry, does anyone in Henry County know how to yield?
I always seem to be behind or turn in front of those who
don’t.
Hey Henry, other side of the tracks. Amen.
Hey Henry, what about these church groups who have their
church gatherings at their residences, inconveniencing the
neighbors when their church has lots of space for the event.
Hey Henry, Nathan Deal got it right again and the elephant is
in its coffin.
Feel
the burn.
While
you learn.
Don’t miss your
chance to chat up
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Practice, while getting
some healthy steps in.
Thursday, May 12, 2016
5 pm at 1133 Eagles
Landing Parkway,
meet at the
Education Building
To register, visit
piedmont.org/docwalk
or call 877-527-3712.
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Summer Genealogy Picnic June 4
Special to The Times
The 2016 Geranium Jam -
JailHouse Beach Party will be
held Saturday, May 21 from 6
until 10 p.m.
This event is a fundraiser for
the McDonough Main Street
Program’s downtown beautifica-
tion projects and the Annual
Geranium Drop on New Year’s
Eve presented by McDonough
Hospitality
&
Tourism.
Performers include A1A (a
Jimmy Buffett Tribute Band),
McDonough Rhythm Section
and Georgia Flood.
Food and drink vendors will be
on-site for the evening, with a
variety for concert go-ers.
Tickets for the Jam concert are
on sale in advance for $20 online
at
/jam/ or at the McDonough
Welcome Center. VIP Tables are
also being sold, with a limited
quantity. This event is being
presented by Main Street
McDonough,
McDonough
Hospitality & Tourism and the
City of McDonough.
The concert will be held at 55
Harkins Street in McDonough
where public parking in down-
town is free after 6 p.m.
Geranium
Jam -
Jailhouse
Beach Party
May 21
