Oconee County, GA Politics

My grandmother Antoinette Johnson Matthews, who may have started the first private Nursery School in Georgia and taught many Jews and Gentiles alike in Druid Hills, is buried at Oakland Cemetery. From: "psommer" psommer@bellsouth.net Date: July 9, 2013 11:39:44 AM EDT To: "'psommer'" psommer@bellsouth.net Subject: Oakland Cemetery and Cyclorama 'Ramble', July 13, 2013 Here's information about and event you might like to participate in. Peggy Oakland Cemetery and Cyclorama 'Ramble',   July 13, 2013 General T.R.R. Cobb Camp # 97 Sons of Confederate Veterans Historical Honor Society Saturday, July 13   will be the annual Camp #97 'Ramble' presented by the Athens Chapter of the Sons of Confederate Historical Honor Society.  This year we will visit the famed Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta.  Interested individuals and groups are cordially invited to participate.  We will leave Athens at   08:00 am   (across fro...

Pat Priest does a great job with a wide and varying list of fiction and non-fiction to read to expand her horizons and those of the members of the Oconee County Democratic Committee book club (and some members do not belong to the regular political committee). So I am just reiterating you do not have to live in Oconee County or even be a member of the Democratic Party to join our book group. Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. Subject: [oconee] Sherman's March -- the novel Hello, fellow Democrats, About a month before my family's reunion a couple of years ago, I sent my mom, nephews, and siblings a surprise gift: Jimmy Carter's book about his childhood called "An Hour Before Daylight." The book was a wonderful catalyst for conversation, and because my mom grew up in the same era, it prompted fascinating recollections about her childhood during hard times in the south. (And our former pr...