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Shimmering fields of cotton and pecan orchards punctuate the predominantly pine and oak forests around Cairo, Georgia. The region’s lifeblood is the Flint River, which borders the fictional slave labor plantation in Gone With the Wind. In reality, the river flows from west central Georgia into the Gulf of Mexico, and its waters are clean enough to harbor bass, bluegill and bullheads. Located amid rolling hills not far from the border with Florida, Cairo is a town with fewer than 10,000 residents that’s known locally for its vintage car show, but it has a claim to fame when it comes to the long fight for racial equality: It was the birthplace of Jackie Robinson, who went on to break baseball’s color barrier when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. ....
Dec 29, 2020 It s Christmas time, but we all know you can only play so much Bing Crosby and Mariah Carey before you ll go mad. Thankfully, there are plenty of rocking Christmas gems out there that tend to fall under the radar. Many rock icons have tried their hand at Christmastime staples, with mixed results. (Sometimes it is better to leave things to Crosby and the other classic crooners, after all.) But from Chuck Berry and Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen, guitar gods have successfully livened up the otherwise straight-laced proceedings, or at least given the tunes more personality. Meanwhile, other rockers have just gotten, well, a little weird with things, whether it’s peak Weird Al taking the piss, the Pretenders getting new wave, or Fall Out Boy shutting down any chance of mistletoe romance. All around, they prove that with the right imagination, you can inject a harder-rocking spirit into Christmas music mall holiday playlists be damned. ....
When it comes to Christmas decorating, my wife has an important tradition. While she puts out our decorations and curses at the lights in our tree, she listens through all of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” by the Vince Guaraldi Trio, “A Christmas Together” by John Denver and the Muppets and “Christmas Album” by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. Other albums may come and go in the rotation, but these three are a must. I’ve added the tradition of listening to these records on vinyl, since I have an excellent cabinet stereo that allows you to play a stack of records at a time and because I can’t resist fulfilling millennial stereotypes. ....