Former Atlanta Braves pitcher, Greg Maddux, celebrates his 51st birthday today. Nicknamed “Mad Dog” and “The Professor,” Maddux played for the Atlanta Braves from 1993 to 2003, and won the Cy Young Award four consecutive years from 1992 to…
National Library Week 2015 has an appropriate theme for Georgia's libraries and GALILEO, who work together to provide "Unlimited Possibilities" to students and Georgia citizens. The partnership has been going on since September 1995 when a group of…
"Georgia libraries offers the best of all worlds, the books we love and the online information we need. We in Georgia can be especially glad of GALILEO. . ." says Dan Veach, winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Poetry for 2013. In…
One of America’s greatest fiction writers, Flannery O’Connor was both on this day in 1925. She would have been 90 years old. O’Connor was born in Savannah and moved to Milledgeville with her family in 1938. She attended the Peabody Laboratory…
Robert Tyre “Bobby” Jones II was born on this day in 1902 in Atlanta. Jones was the most successful amateur golfer ever. During his career he won thirteen major championships. He also won all four major titles in one season, completing the…