Vanishing Georgia | GPB Documentaries

[@pamelaflores5576]

Georgia born and raised, I love this documentary, Very Hard Working families, pulling together to make it.

[@rhondapotter6989]

I love how they all talk about helping each other.

[@-K3M0SABI-]

Yes!

[@ramonortiz8889]

Im a 51 y.o. Puertorican living in Norcross Ga for the last 27 years now and my love for this mighty state is as big as my love for my tiny Caribbean island. I love the South and its rich history... God bless all Georgian and, even though i wasnt born here, most likely this is where im gonna meet my maker.

[@mtr65]

This was life across the south. My Pappa was a dirt farmer out of southern Oklahoma born 1918 but moved to California in '34. Told the same kind of stories. This info will be soon forgotten. Thanks for sharing

[@maaan8494]

Im from the uk and I find the history of the American south fascinating. Thanks for the vid

[@DramaMustRemainOnTheStage]

This one was originally aired in 1996. I grew up in Georgia. Not the rural areas but the suburbs. Different time for sure.

[@lastshallbefirst5516]

Well, your UK 🇬🇧 lineage has strong ties to the American South. A lot of Britains were living in the South, some slave owners. Some say the Southern accent is a derivative of British dialect. Also, the Confederate flag is similar to yours 🇬🇧. Just make sure you uncover all the evil your people did over here, while you’re uncovering the good. American history is full of lies when told by people in control, you have to hear the other side to find Truth.

[@Nevadefeated]

@@lastshallbefirst5516 100% facts!

[@georgiasweetpotato7170]

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[@JeanetteFaith]

@@lastshallbefirst5516 My ancestors came from England to Georgia in the early 1700's!

[@kemberlyhappylife641]

i loved growing up in ga... such sweet memories ...been in kansas now since 89....but im ga through and through...just with abit of sunflower mixed with my peaches...lol

[@flowerpeddler8306]

Stuckeys in Eastman GA. had a talking Minah bird. Just a thought from my childhood.

[@veganwinter2090]

First places, Indian spaces, trails and mounds, swimming holes, country dirt roads, best forests, and homecoming gatherings. Georgia on my mind.

[@TheWriterWalker]

I enjoyed this and learned so much. I grew up in sweet Georgia.

[@surfNturf904]

My forefathers lived this life in Lagrange Georgia.

[@jomama5186]

I LOVE documentaries! This is great stuff !

[@triciachancey1955]

My Father’s family and some of my Mother’s people lived and passed in Okefenokee. I still have a lot of family living in the swamps. My grandfather, Major Jones along with President Carter’s Father helped build the swamp park. My Mama was one of the first employees in the gift shop. My grandfather, My Mother and her sister lived in old log cabin right in the Park for many years. Now it’s not allowed. You missed the best story teller that ever lived, Luther Thrift. He passed away recently but he had wonderful stories to tell. My great Uncle Will Cox was the one Atlanta Journal would get to show them the swamp. Uncle Will raise a bear and would teach his tricks for the tourists.My Aunt Carolynloved animals and she had a pet Fox that followed her everywhere like a puppy. My family also helped with turpentine drippings.Most of the family was farmers, builders and very tough. Kids pretty much raised themselves. The Sacred Heart music is still sung at the old hard shell churches( primitive Baptist). It’s so beautiful. It’s a old traditional life in the swamps. I miss my family. Been gone long time. They still there and see them as often as possible.

[@coyotesayswhat]

2 hours by train for a 20 minute drive today by car to Tybee? Growing up with Long Beach Island I was so glad to find Tybee ⛱️

[@leavemyrabbitholeplease8717]

Georgia Peach 🍑 Cherokee - English Primitive at my roots, live by old ways of respect and a deep understanding of hard work

[@bethbartlett5692]

I picked cotton on my Grandfather's farm for several years, for my school shoes. School let out each fall for "Cotton Pickin' Week". I recall the schools interesting during those years. We had no problems, we were kids, and hadn't "learned prejudices" yet. I never felt any noticeable traits of prejudice. That level of Lower Mind Thought is learned, all fear based thought is taught/learned.

[@wtf8020]

Hank Aaron gave my dad a trash bag full of wiffle balls when he sold him a car... the plastic baseballs. My dad gave them out to kids for months...

[@gerberjoanne266]

This is an interesting documentary. I found it strange that it avoided the Civil Rights era, but that's been covered elsewhere, and it's important to give some time and space to lesser-known aspects of Georgia's history.

[@ahnraemenkhera7451]

There was no Civil Rights Movement to be filmed in Georgia, which remains racially segregated by school district, by neighborhood & by municipalities to 2021, on the whole. The 2nd “Atlanta Compromise,”’as it was known, ensured public school board empanelment, business construction contract “fair & open bidding” processes, & other concessions by chamber negotiations with various public & private sector leadership to include Black participation “in proportion to the Black population by census.” A deal struck between Civil Rights Act activists & political leaders & business owners in the 1960s, revisited in the 1970s. So no real, major public demonstrations took place of historical value in Georgia during the era. The major cities then were Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, Augusta, Columbus. Small factory towns, farms, woods, a small coastal port & some islands. Mostly hills, farms & woods.

[@po2313]

The only difference between then and now, but left out I believe on purpose, is that any segregation now is voluntary and not enforced by any law. Been living here since 1968 and I have never seen any segregation other than that insisted on by black leaders (Miss Black fill in the blank, 100 Black Men of this and that, etc). Our so called racial issues today are generated by Washington and Hollywood, and are as real as a plug nickle. I see nothing but all races working together in mutual harmony. Beware of the race baiters keeping hate alive.@@ahnraemenkhera7451

[@sugarplumenigma4850]

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[@thundernels]

You should post Georgia Backgrounds with Larry Jon Wilson.

[@herdfan697278]

The fact that Americans do not feel they belong anywhere causes most of our social and economic woes in 2020. Yes in the midst of our political and medical woes, we no longer still have that feeling of belonging!❤️😢🇺🇸🙏✝️

[@veronicamitchell9378]

herdfan697278 interesting, please share more......

[@ericjones9725]

I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Southern born and raised.

[@Kristenm28]

My kingdom isn't of this world.

[@monmixer]

Keying is very true with bands today. Especially rock bands. they tune down to get a heavier sound and it's easier to sing at the same time.

[@elainedaprano9130]

Tybee is STILL FUN!

[@maaan8494]

I'm interested, do you know what decade the interviews are from? Maybe the 1980's? Thanks

[@GPB]

Thank you for your question! The production originally aired in 1996 and the interviews were film shortly before then.

[@maaan8494]

@@GPB I see, thanks

[@slltruthful62]

Georgia is my home state, I Love the Southern life and would not live anywhere else.

[@jimgresham5529]

Stuckey's is gone and now we have Buckee"s.

[@elainedaprano9130]

Bummer! All those Longleaf Pines sacrificed for turpentine 😕

[@cheyackatustenuggee1836]

Seminole Creek Indigenous of the south

[@GaryParris-sd8gg]

Nathaniel Dickerson Parris

[@veganwinter2090]

Vanishing beneath the kudzu

[@jenniferrice925]

Atlanta kid

[@Pixl8dwhmsy]

man on the moon... hahaha 👽

[@dylspur9222]

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[@TD402dd]

Really?? You show poverty and ignorance as something to melancholy about. The mills are almost all gone, and thank goodness. It generated nothing by more poverty. Yeah, I had family involved in that business to their broken end. We are now educated with most with degrees from colleges and universities. There was a time when the poor Georgians strived for a simple high school education. Thank God we don't live like our forefathers.

[@sugarplumenigma4850]

So you think sending jobs overseas helped Georgians . Peoples livelihoods were in those shirt factories and mills .

[@robertdipaola3447]

More like a peanut- brain Jimmy Carter is, his brother would have done a better job as president, at least he had balls!!!!

[@dylspur9222]

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