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Area students get hands-on history lessons as 145th Battle of ...
Found: 3 Weeks 2 Days 1 Hour 10 Minutes ago
Catoosa County News - INCLUDES TWO VIDEOSStudents step back in historyAbraham Lincoln talks to the studentsCHICKAMAUGA -- About 1,400 students turned out Wednesday at the re-enactment site for 145th Battle of Chickamauga. The students, from schools in Northwest Georgia and South Tennessee schools, visited battle sites and encampments.Walker County is commemorating the Battle of Chickamauga, one of the county’s most significant events, with a three-day re-enactment this weekend, Sept. 19-21. The event is expected to draw, in addition to the students, thousands of re-enactors and spectators.The Battle of Chickamauga took place Sept. 19-21, 1863, and was one of America’s bloodiest battles. Walker County’s 145th anniversary commemoration of this battle will take place at Davis Crossroads in McLemore Cove.Another round of students is expected Thursday and a final round Friday morning.More than 4,000 students, including many from the Walker County and Chickamauga school systems, are expected to visit the battlegrounds before the 145th Battle of Chickamauga officially opens with a speech by Vice President Dick Cheney at 1 p.m. Friday.VIDEO: Students step back in historyTo launch external video player, click hereOn Wednesday, students gathered in various groups and visited each battle site and the encampments, including Dennis Boggs’s Abe Lincoln presentation, the Naval Museum of Port Columbus, and the 13th United States Colored Troops (USCT) recruiting station, to name a few.The students were given demonstrations of Civil War-time tea bag making, what Civil War time candy was like, period dancing, and how Civil War soldier’s guns were loaded.The many different schools to attend included Naomi Elementary in LaFayette, Saint Jude’s Catholic School in Chattanooga, Davis Elementary in Trenton, West View Elementary in Chattanooga, Red Bank Middle School, East Lake Elementary, Bright School Elementary in Chattanooga, and Meigs North in Decatur, Tenn.“Our students have been learning about the causes of the Civil War and some of the events of the Civil War, like Fort Sumter,” Naomi Elementary fifth-grade social studies teacher Mike Ware said his 83 students who attended School Days. “They have been talking about the Battle of Gettysburg and they have been talking about the main people involved in the Civil War. … So they have been covering the main people and events of the Civil War.” “They are really excited about being here and they have actually been going home and looking up links on the Internet (about the Battle of Chickamauga),” Ware said.Ware said the students plan to return for the battle re-enactments by using their tickets.Nora Monteith of Saint Jude’s Catholic School in Chattanooga said, “We have brought 40 students out here today. … We felt that this would be a really good background for our students.”VIDEO: Lincoln presenter Dennis BoggsTo launch external video player, click hereCLICK ON THESE LINKSFEEDBACK: Send a letter to the editorSUBSCRIBE: Get The Catoosa County News each WednesdayGO BACK:Return to our homepage...
Realtors association event raises money to help Burn Foundation
Found: 3 Weeks 2 Days 19 Hours 34 Minutes ago
Athens Banner-Herald - The Athens Area Association of Realtors - which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2008 - has long been a supporter of the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation, but in the past couple of years the group has kicked its level of assistance up a couple of notches....
Authorities investigate Union Co. murder suicide
Found: 3 Weeks 4 Days 16 Hours 32 Minutes ago
Access North Georgia - Authorities are investigating a murder suicide that happened Thursday afternoon in Union County....
Bus transfers lead to long rides for some students
Found: 3 Weeks 6 Days 3 Hours 43 Minutes ago
Gainesville Times - Schools of choice may allow parents the power to pick, yet kids being shuttled to schools across Gainesville or to the other end of South Hall County may be whining to bus drivers, "Are we there yet?" Just this year, Hall County schools opened the World Language Academy, the system's first school of choice that accepts students countywide regardless of their home district. The World Language Academy joins the ranks of the entire Gainesville school ......
Savannah-Chatham Co. fugitive captured in Atlanta
Found: 4 Weeks 17 Hours 11 Minutes ago
Georgia Examiner - A major fugitive from Savannah is being held in the DeKalb County Jail on a warrant charging him with violating state drug laws. Members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force said a tip led to Thursday's arrest of 32-year-old Aubrey Rodriguez Williams. He captured without incident in the Atlanta area. ...
Obama campaign to shift personnel out of Georgia
Found: 1 Month 3 Hours 31 Minutes ago
Access North Georgia - The Democratic presidential campaign of Barack Obama is shifting personnel out of Georgia into more competitive states such as North Carolina.
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Man found dead in warehouse
Found: 1 Month 2 Days 13 Hours 58 Minutes ago
Athens Banner-Herald - A 39-year-old homeless man likely was electrocuted Sunday while trying to steal copper wire from a vacant North Athens warehouse, Athens-Clarke police said....
Police say Clarkston boy died of natural causes
Found: 1 Month 3 Days 52 Minutes ago
Georgia Examiner - A police spokeswoman now says the death of a 6-year-old Clarkston boy was from natural causes. DeKalb County police were called to the boy's apartment home around 6 p.m. Saturday. ...
Clarkston boy's death called suspicious
Found: 1 Month 3 Days 5 Hours 6 Minutes ago
Georgia Examiner - Police are describing the death of a 6-year-old Clarkston boy as suspicious. DeKalb County police were called to the boy's apartment home around 6 p.m. Saturday. ...
Birth parents want foster mother charged
Found: 1 Month 5 Days 16 Hours 59 Minutes ago
Athens Banner-Herald - The birth parents of a 9-month-old Jackson County girl who died of heat stroke Tuesday want her foster mother prosecuted for leaving the little girl locked in a minivan for more than two hours, according to the couple's attorney....
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