Monday, November 12, 2012
The Hilderbrans have been collecting antiques for much of their 54-year marriage, and their home tucked away in the woods offers a shell appropriate for such a bygone collection.
In 1962, when Gloria and Bill Hilderbran purchased matching antique ceiling lamps, one member of the couple had much bigger intentions. “We bought those because I told Bill, ‘One day we’ll have a log house to put these in,’” Gloria says, strolling through the cabin that, decades later, did come to fruition. Bill, a 78-year-old Korean War veteran and career electrician, is outside, taking care of the of the fallen fall foliage that comes with living down a long dirt driveway in the woods of Powder Springs. But it wasn’t the clearest path in building the three-floor cabin that houses the Hilderbrans and their countless antiques, and has been featured in several magazines. In the mid-‘80s, Gloria had the structure envisioned and land off …
Friday, July 22, 2011
Once Loren Baker's family tree contained 1,000 names, he turned his attention to the ancestry of the city—perhaps best researched through the its cemeteries.
Dents in front of tombstones like this usually mean a body is six feet below, but Jonathan P. Lindley isn’t buried here. As Loren Baker approaches Lindley’s grave in the Powder Springs Methodist cemetery, he begins to—seemingly out of instinct—tell the tale of Lindley’s death. The member of the Confederacy was captured in Mississippi and died in Ohio while being in a Union prison camp for two months. His corpse, Baker explains, was buried with four or five others outside the camp only to be dug up by grave robbers. “They did an investigation and found out the bodies went to a Cleveland medical clinic,” he tells me. “Some doctor had wanted to do a study on bodies, and he sent them out to get them. … He chose the Confederates because they …
Monday, March 7, 2011
Since June 2009, Powder Springs photographer Stan Kaady has been capturing the faces—and memories—of the city's most longstanding citizens.
What makes someone a Town Treasure? Must they have fought in World War II? Perhaps they had to have once been an employee of the now defunct Coats and Clark Threadmill in Austell? Dirt roads, cotton gins and canning food for winter—must someone have experienced those firsthand? Yes, the Powder Springs citizens Stan Kaady photographs for his Town Treasures project can recount what it is was like to live through those times. But it’s the implied quality attached to each of them—the true understanding of the community’s evolution that comes only with longevity—that makes someone a true Town Treasure. “The idea behind the project was to create a historical document of people who grew up in Powder Springs and their impressions of the city …
Virginia Meldrum
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