George T. Heery was a prominent figure among a family of Georgia architects. Heery’s father practiced in Athens for several decades beginning in the late 1920s, and two of his children later entered the field as well, working alongside their father as co-founders of the Brookwood Group. George Thomas Heery was born in Athens on June 18, 1927. His father, C. Wilmer Heery, graduated from the architecture school at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta in 1926, with a class that also included Marshall Oliver Saggus, Marthame Sanders, and Sanford Ayers, all of whom would go on to have distinguished careers in architecture.

Students line up outside Georgia Military College in Milledgeville, circa 1915. 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 Archives. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOnpuum5GptrC6jqCcqKqXnq5uuciloK2Zoq56pLvLpZygnV%2BienqAlG1m

Tony Merrell drums during a performance of the Georgia Sea Island Singers, as fellow member Frankie Sullivan Quimby looks on. The singers maintain a tradition, begun around 1900, of sharing the Gullah culture through performances and educational programs. Courtesy of Georgia Sea Island Singers 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.

Among several endangered species found in Calhoun County is the gopher tortoise, the state reptile of Georgia. The tortoise is identified as a threatened species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 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.

In 1966 the General Assembly chose Georgia’s chief executive. Although former governor Ellis Arnall won a plurality in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, he was forced into a runoff with Lester Maddox. Maddox, who had never held public office, defeated Arnall in a major political upset. Since the rise of one-party politics in the state in the nineteenth century, the general election had been a mere formality; the Democratic gubernatorial nominee had always taken the governorship.