Altamaha Technical College is located in Jesup, the seat of Wayne County, with satellite campuses in Baxley (Appling County), Hazlehurst (Jeff Davis County), and Ludowici (Long County). Altamaha Tech provides postsecondary education programs in fields ranging from business technology and industrial technology to health sciences and personal services. The school’s mission is to meet the future economic challenges of southeast Georgia. Altamaha Tech is part of the Technical College System of Georgia, which is administered by the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG).

Americus, the county seat of Sumter County in southwest Georgia, is located approximately nine miles east of Plains and 150 miles south of Atlanta, in the middle of a triangle formed by Albany, Columbus, and Macon, sixteen miles west of the Flint River. The city was incorporated on December 22, 1832, and by the end of that century it had become the eighth largest city in the state. According to the 2020 U.

Stallings Island, located in the Savannah River eight miles upstream from Augusta, is best known for its very early pottery, a technological development that predated the advent of farming in Georgia by several millennia. Pictured are sherds of the punctated fiber-tempered pottery, ca. 3,800-3,500 years ago. The sherd on top is actually 11 centimeters wide. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZoq6iomZjAcK3RnJ%2BaoZNivaa%2ByKibaA%3D%3D

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation is an independent foundation based in Atlanta. Its mission is “to promote positive change in people’s lives and to build and enhance the communities in which they live.” Trustees of the foundation include Arthur Blank, one of the founders of the Home Depot and the head of AMB Group, LLC (which owns the Atlanta Falcons, the Georgia Force, and the Mountain Sky Guest Ranch in Montana), as well as his wife, Stephanie, and adult children, Danielle, Dena, and Kenny Blank.

At the age of nineteen, Frederic Ozanam organized the Conference of Charity in Paris, France, to provide assistance to the poor of the city. He chose the sixteenth-century cleric St. Vincent de Paul as patron of the organization, which later adopted its current name, the St. Vincent de Paul Society. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZoq6iomZjAcK3SrKacoZGptrC60mg%3D