Truett Cathy, founder and chairman of the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain, is pictured outside the company's headquarters in Atlanta. Chick-fil-A is one of the largest privately owned restaurant chains in the country. Courtesy of Chick-fil-A 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.

Athens singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt was at the forefront of the contemporary folk rock movement in America. His expressive, raw vocal style featured a prominent southern accent. “Vic has somehow turned pronunciation into an instrument,” John J. Sullivan wrote in the Oxford American. “He’s constantly resurrecting and warping syllables that we have, through habit or sloth, nearly elided into oblivion.” James Victor Chesnutt was born on November 12, 1964, in Jacksonville, Florida, and raised by adoptive parents in Zebulon, Georgia.

James Wallace “Wally” Butts Jr. coached the University of Georgia (UGA) football team from 1939 to 1960, leading the Bulldogs to four Southeastern Conference (SEC) titles, one undefeated season, and eight bowl games. His intense desire to win, knowledge of the game, and innovative techniques—including a devastating passing game—made him a coaching legend even before he retired. Though he was wracked by scandal late in his career, he is remembered as one of the great coaches in the history of UGA, and in all of college football.

Journalist Walter J. Brown graduated from the journalism school at the University of Georgia and went on to establish his own news bureau and eventually his own broadcast empire in Georgia and South Carolina. The Walter J. Brown Media Archives, housed in the main library at UGA, are named in his honor. Courtesy of the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc. 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.

William Jay was an English-trained architect who, from 1817 to 1820, practiced in Savannah, where he built Greek revival–style public buildings and fashionable neoclassical houses for the city’s wealthiest residents. Jay was born in 1792 or 1793 in Bath, England, to a family of stonemasons. From 1807 to 1813 he apprenticed in London with the architect David Riddall Roper, who built mostly in the Greek revival and Gothic revival styles. Jay’s only known commission in London is the neoclassical-style Albion Chapel (1816), Moorgate, a square-shaped church with a recessed Ionic entry and a Pantheon-like dome.