The Big Bethel AME Concert Choir ispictured in 1947 in front of the church's Möller organ. At the time, the choir was under the directorship of Henry J. Furlow. The church and its choirs were known for their many performances, including the world-famous religious pageant. Courtesy of Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, HenryJ. and Florine Dyer Furlow Papers.. 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.

The blues is a blending of African and European traditional music characterized by its melancholy (or blue) notes expressing suffering and deprivation. Songs are typically structured in three-line verses, with the third line summing up, or rephrasing, the sentiment expressed in the first two. Beginning in the nineteenth century, blues music developed throughout the southern United States from the work songs and field hollers of enslaved people. Later, southern prisoners in jail and on chain gangs added songs of murder, death row, and their treatment at the hands of the wardens.

Brunswick is the major urban and economic center in the southeast corner of Georgia. Located on the coast, it is approximately seventy-five miles south of Savannah and sixty-five miles north of Jacksonville, Florida. Brunswick is home to one of Georgia’s two deep-water ports and is the gateway to the Golden Isles, which lie to the east across the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway: St. Simons Island, Sea Island, Little St. Simons Island, and Jekyll Island.

Georgia is home to one of the most versatile and rugged transport aircraft ever built: the C-130 Hercules. First flown in 1954, more than 2,200 of the aircraft have been produced in seventy different versions for sixty different countries. The latest model, the C-130J, remains in production at the Lockheed Martin facility in Marietta. With a wide fuselage, distinctive high tail, and multiwheeled landing gear, the C-130 can operate from virtually any runway, including rough dirt airstrips.

A vintage yacht is docked at Cabin Bluff, a 50,000-acre hunting preserve in Camden County. Courtesy of Sea Island Company 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. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOm6ysoZ6awLR5xJymp6edrny0scBmoKykkaOxbq%2FOpqeapqlkum6Aj2twaA%3D%3D