Jeff Sexton
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I try to talk books and other interests - and avoid politics.
I try to talk books and other interests - and avoid politics.
I've got relatives - including one of the grandparents I mention in the review - buried at the cemetery across the street that was likely part of the same plantation as the Mounds in Felton's era, and I went to HS in part barely a quarter mile down the River on its opposite bank. 2/2
January 22, 2026 at 6:10 AM
I've got relatives - including one of the grandparents I mention in the review - buried at the cemetery across the street that was likely part of the same plantation as the Mounds in Felton's era, and I went to HS in part barely a quarter mile down the River on its opposite bank. 2/2
One example:
Felton at one point mentions the Etowah Indian Mounds as part of someone's plantation. (Which makes sense, actually, for the era.)
*I* knew it as a State Park. I spent a LOT of time barely a mile down the road at Cartersville's main public baseball/ softball fields. 1/2
Felton at one point mentions the Etowah Indian Mounds as part of someone's plantation. (Which makes sense, actually, for the era.)
*I* knew it as a State Park. I spent a LOT of time barely a mile down the road at Cartersville's main public baseball/ softball fields. 1/2
January 22, 2026 at 6:10 AM
One example:
Felton at one point mentions the Etowah Indian Mounds as part of someone's plantation. (Which makes sense, actually, for the era.)
*I* knew it as a State Park. I spent a LOT of time barely a mile down the road at Cartersville's main public baseball/ softball fields. 1/2
Felton at one point mentions the Etowah Indian Mounds as part of someone's plantation. (Which makes sense, actually, for the era.)
*I* knew it as a State Park. I spent a LOT of time barely a mile down the road at Cartersville's main public baseball/ softball fields. 1/2
I *hope* to have a new edition of this book on Amazon in time for #America250.
What I *want* to do is both work on the formatting *and* add an afterword as a native son of Cartersville looking back on my own childhood there at the *end* of the 20th century.
What I *want* to do is both work on the formatting *and* add an afterword as a native son of Cartersville looking back on my own childhood there at the *end* of the 20th century.
January 22, 2026 at 6:06 AM
I *hope* to have a new edition of this book on Amazon in time for #America250.
What I *want* to do is both work on the formatting *and* add an afterword as a native son of Cartersville looking back on my own childhood there at the *end* of the 20th century.
What I *want* to do is both work on the formatting *and* add an afterword as a native son of Cartersville looking back on my own childhood there at the *end* of the 20th century.
(White) suffragette. Unabashed racist and former slave owner. Indigenous defender. First female - and last formerly slave owning - US Senator.
And she lived and died all over my own hometown.
Rebecca. Latimer. Felton.
And she lived and died all over my own hometown.
Rebecca. Latimer. Felton.
January 20, 2026 at 8:33 AM
(White) suffragette. Unabashed racist and former slave owner. Indigenous defender. First female - and last formerly slave owning - US Senator.
And she lived and died all over my own hometown.
Rebecca. Latimer. Felton.
And she lived and died all over my own hometown.
Rebecca. Latimer. Felton.
Discussing the Trail of Tears (which happened when she was 3) and the Etowah Indian Mounds, it becomes clear that she has such great respect for those she calls the "Red man" that I very much suspect she would actually be *in favor of* land acknowledgements today, nearly a century after her death.
January 20, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Discussing the Trail of Tears (which happened when she was 3) and the Etowah Indian Mounds, it becomes clear that she has such great respect for those she calls the "Red man" that I very much suspect she would actually be *in favor of* land acknowledgements today, nearly a century after her death.