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 Center Square) – The Georgia Senate Education and Youth Committee has advanced legislation that would allow Georgians to put taxpayer money toward the cost of private school tuition. Senate Bill 601, the Georgia Educational Freedom Act, would create state-funded Promise Scholarships of up to $6,000 a year. Families of the roughly 1.7 million K-12 students in Georgia could use the money for private school tuition and other education expenses, such as tutoring and homeschool