[marshmallow]

Good news.

Didn't realize you were in Atlanta. For some reason I always think of FReepers as being far away. I'm down the road in Augusta which is actually part of the Savannah diocese.

Small world.

[AnAmericanMother]

My mom's whole family is from Augusta. Her parents are buried in Magnolia Cemetery - if you walk out the back door of the cemetery office you will literally stumble over their grave markers, that's her mother's family plot right there (the Byrds and Griffins). Her father's family (except for her dad) are all buried over in the Rae plot, to the left of 2nd Av. right before you run into E. Wall.

We were at my parents' house this past week and met a guy from Augusta, used to be a lawyer and then became an Episcopal priest. We had a very cordial conversation even though we left ECUSA for Rome! (the Episcopal Diocese of GA in the south half of the state is much less problematic than the Diocese of Atlanta, until recently Bishop Louttit was very conciliatory, although I think the national church threatened him in some way because he has begun to get ugly. It doesn't matter to my parents' church, though, they own their own land and have an independent endowment.)