In 1910 the Byrd-Matthews Corporation built a major sawmill in Helen to accommodate the booming timber industry. Courtesy of Gary Doster The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZonLGgmZe2tbXOp2asnZWeu6h5xp6mq5%2BZlnqktMCnnqKml2LDqr%2FIqKWsZZ%2BberW71KugrKVdnrtuwMeeZKanlJq%2Fr3nSqKytoF%2BXxrOwjKaYrayYmsS0ecuupJudomKwsLnPmqWyl2Blfm5%2Bjg%3D%3D

The Candler School of Theology, part of Emory University in Atlanta, is one of thirteen schools of theology affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The school’s mission is “to educate—through scholarship, teaching, and service—faithful and creative leaders for the church’s ministries in the world.” Southeastern Methodists founded Candler in Atlanta in September 1914 in response to tensions within the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; the need for more clergy in the South; and community boosterism.

(Left to right) James V. Carmichael, general manager of the Bell Aircraft Corporation; Lawrence D. Bell, founder and president of Bell Aircraft; and Leon M. Blair, mayor of Marietta, enjoy a party at Blair's home in 1949. Carmichael holds a cane, which he walked with for most of his life, after being struck by a car at age sixteen. The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print.

Cathedral Window Quilt by Mattie Lee Sigers is part of Georgia's State Art Collection. Fiber, 78 x 52 inches The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. Requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource should be submitted to the Georgia Council for the Arts. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOmqmtq12Ywq3A1KucaKWRqcGqsYylnJ5lo560pr7SaJqarJiasbOty2auoqaUpMRuvdSio62Xo560pr7SmGdpaV1nfA%3D%3D

A traveling preacher, Charles “Ches” McCartney was a significant folk and religious figure in Georgia for more than four decades, and a likely influence on the works of the writer Flannery O’Connor. He traveled around the United States driving an iron-wheeled caravan of between twelve and thirty goats and was known as the “Goat Man.” McCartney was born on July 6, 1901, in Sigourney, Iowa. He was married three times, once to a Spanish knife thrower ten years his senior, and he had one son, Albert Gene, and possibly two to four others.