Well-known Southern garden, floral and interior designer James T. Farmer, III, will be the featured speaker at the 2016 Averitt Lecture Series event to be held at the Emma Kelly Theater on Sunday, March 6th at 3:00 p.m. Farmer is the author of the Wall Street Journal best-selling garden book, A Time To Plant, and other titles including Sip & Savor, Porch Living, Wreaths For All Seasons, A Time To Cook, Dinner on the Grounds, and A Time to Celebrate. A self-described “complete

The Bulloch County Historical Society is in the process of gathering factual information to be published in a book about the 1904 Hodges family murders and the lynching of Paul Reed and Will Cato, two of the most horrible episodes in Bulloch history. [Photo: Members of the Hodges family who where murdered in Bulloch County in 1904. Two men accused of the murders were subsequently lynched.] The basis of the book will be the more than 40 years of research and writings of Georgi