The Georgia Guidestones near Elberton, Ga., have intrigued and confounded visitors since they first appeared in 1980. (Photo by Todd DeFeo)
Georgia authorities are investigating reports that someone blew up part of the Georgia Guidestones in Elbert County, Georgia.
According to lore, in June 1979, a man using the pseudonym Robert C. Christian went to the Elberton Granite Finishing Company. He commissioned the structure on behalf of “a small group of loyal Americans.”
The monument featuring ten guidelines was erected in 1980.
Sightseers’ Delight started publishing in June 2016. The site, published by The DeFeo Groupe, collects and curates content about places where historical events large and small happened. The site builds off the legacy of The Travel Trolley, which launched in June 2009. The site aimed to be a virtual version of the trolley tours offered in so many cities.
The Road to Tara Museum in Jonesboro, Ga., is expanding its Civil War exhibit. The exhibit formerly existed in a portion of the museum, but now includes two rooms dedicated to the commemoration and remembrance of the Civil War’s Atlanta Campaign and the Battle of Jonesboro. The new exhibit will be open to the public beginning Labor Day weekend. The expansion’s opening coincides with the final year of the Sesquicentennial celebration of the Civil War.
A federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, on Tuesday found a JetBlue Airways pilot who left the cockpit mid-flight after telling his colleagues “things just don’t matter” not guilty by reason of insanity, The Associated Press reported.
The Southeastern Railway Museum is closing in on its fundraising goal for the museum’s largest expansion project since it moved to its current location roughly two decades ago.
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