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Jerry Summers: Georgia s 3 Governors Controversy (No. 150 Of A Series) Friday, January 22, 2021 - by Jerry Summers
Jerry Summers
(Editor s Note: This is the 150th history column by Jerry Summers since his series started on Chattanoogan.com, and hopefully many more are in the pipeline).
The Peach State has always been prone to have some drama in its politics and elections.
The years 1946-1947 produced one of the most bizarre political spectacles in the history of American politics.
At one point Georgia had not one, not two, but three claimants to the Governor’s office.
The controversy arose out of the death of Gene Talmadge, who had been elected four times to occupy the top office in Georgia.
HUNTINGTON â Construction continues on a new 5 Star Car Wash at the old Bojanglesâ restaurant building on 16th Street, just off the Hal Greer Boulevard exit on Interstate 64 across from Kinetic Park.
It will be the second location in Huntington, according to owners Scott and Laya Hutchison, presidents of Star Car Wash LLC.
âWe also have a location on 3rd Avenue in Huntington,â Scott Hutchison said. âItâs across from the Marshall football stadium. Itâs the only full-service wash in the area with detailing services.â
The couple also recently opened a new location in Ashland to go with locations in Maysville, Kentucky; South Point, Ohio; and Hurricane, Charleston and Huntington in West Virginia.
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Cathy Marston: Drift
Amid lockdown frustration last summer, acclaimed choreographer Cathy Marston had no dance companies to make movement for, so she created some for herself instead and performed for the first time in 15 years. Drift was filmed by the River Aare, near Marston’s home in Switzerland. Balancing on fallen trees or calf-deep in the water, moving meditatively to a specially composed score by regular collaborator Philip Feeney, she offers a welcome retreat from the current world.
Pointe Black
A powerful telling of the prejudices faced by black ballet dancer Marie-Astrid Mence during her training in her home city of Paris, directed by dancer turned film-maker Rebecca Murray and featured on Nowness. Mence’s gentle voiceover belies the ugliness of her experiences: bullied about her body, told to switch to street dance, made to dance the men’s roles. A dancer with Ballet Black since 2014, Mence proved her detractors wrong, bu
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