The Ilah Dunlap Little Memorial Library on the north campus of the University of Georgia in Athens houses the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection. Named for broadcasting pioneer Walter J. Brown, this collection of film, video, audiotape, transcription disks, and other recording formats comprises approximately 100,000 titles. The mission of the archive is to preserve, protect, and provide access to the moving-image and sound materials that reflect the collective memory of broadcasting and the history of the state of Georgia and its people.

Washington, the seat of Wilkes County, is located in the Piedmont region of east central Georgia. About fifty-five miles northwest of Augusta and forty-three miles east of Athens, Washington has a land area of almost eight square miles. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 3,754. Reputedly the first place in the United States named for U.S. president George Washington, the community was originally called Heard’s Fort after the family that settled it in 1773.

The Allman Brothers Band, formed in 1969 and featuring twin guitars and twin drums, created the “southern rock” genre by brilliantly mixing blues, jazz, country, and rock and roll. From their base in Macon, the Allman Brothers opened the door for other southern bands, including the Atlanta Rhythm Section, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Marshall Tucker Band, and Wet Willie. Duane Allman, guitarist and vocalist, and his brother Gregg Allman, keyboardist and vocalist, were born in Nashville, Tennessee.

A prominent abstract painter of the 1960s and 1970s, Alma Thomas was the first African American woman to have a solo art exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, in 1971. Born in Columbus on September 22, 1891, Alma Woodsey Thomas was the eldest daughter of John Harris Thomas, a successful businessman, and Amelia Cantey, a dress designer. Alma Thomas showed artistic tendencies as a child when she used local clays to make homemade puppets and sculptures.

Archibald Bulloch was a Revolutionary soldier, a leader of Georgia’s Liberty Party, and the state’s first chief executive and commander in chief. Bulloch County, in southeast Georgia, is named in his honor. Bulloch was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1730. His father, James Bulloch, had immigrated to South Carolina in the 1720s from Scotland. His mother, Jean, was the daughter of a Puritan minister, the Reverend Archibald Stobo. Archibald Bulloch was the great-great-grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the United States.