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The Center for Public History at the University of West Georgia will host a Textile History Day at Chieftains Museum on this Saturday, July 21. Representatives will be collecting the history of Rome’s mill communities through oral stories and old photographs. Both former mill workers and family members are invited to bring their stories for inclusion.
July 18, 2012
Rome’s Mellow Mushroom restaurant located on Broad Street downtown is a glocal establishment -yes glocal: a mesh of global and local, or in this case, […]
July 17, 2012
Oak Hill and the Martha Berry Museum: a historical time capsule dedicated to a southern and progressive woman of her time. Comfortably set in the […]
June 18, 2012
Imagine a place where eating is secondary to feeling. This place has a sentimental ambiance so no matter where you are from, you see familiar […]
June 7, 2012
The cannon forged in Rome’s own Noble foundry was a bright ballistic rebel salute when fired this past Thursday, May 17th, signaling summer has started […]
May 21, 2012
Located downtown on Broad Street, The Partridge restaurant serves its southern food family style, and leaves no room for weak appetites. The restaurant looks and […]
May 17, 2012
The Student Enterprises of Berry College, located just north of Rome on Martha Berry Hwy in Floyd County, is a hands-on approach to business education […]
April 23, 2012
Last week, the Greater Rome Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Rome Braves partnered up to showcase the inaugural business voyage of the Roman Holiday […]
April 19, 2012
I started the morning at Berry College’s Spring Craft Fair, so when I arrived at the Civic Center for the Spring Art Market on April […]
April 18, 2012
Shorter University’s “It’s the Talk of the Town” musical was fun, entertaining, and well executed. It seamlessly linked together mid-twentieth century musical talent Jerry Livingston […]
April 13, 2012