August 29, 2000 — From his airplane window, Milton Keller watched Atlanta’s nighttime lights fade into the dead black sky. He wondered if he’d ever see them again. And then he said a prayer. It was early August. Keller and fellow Hall County firefighters Bryan Cash, Tyler Dorsey and Todd …
Read moreAugust 1, 2000 — First came the idea. Then the plan. Training followed. Equipment was purchased along the way. And now, finally, the time has come. It was more than a year ago when Hall County firefighters Bryan Cash, Tyler Dorsey, Todd Folger and Milton Keller decided they wanted to …
Read moreDecember 21, 1999 — My apologies to poet Joyce Kilmer, but … I think that I shall never see A column as lovely as a tree. I wasn’t sure what to wear for my tree climbing lesson at the Chicopee Woods Agricultural Center last week. I used to wear Toughskins …
Read moreFebruary 23, 1999 — Most ice in Georgia is found floating in glasses of sweet tea. Most ice. “When you go back to Gainesville and it’s close to 70 degrees and you tell somebody that you’ve been ice climbing, they’re going to look at you like you’re some kind of …
Read moreFebruary 16, 1999 — As Carl Kirkpatrick’s truck negotiated the roller-coaster drive to the top of Toccoa’s Currahee Mountain, I observed a dozen or so vultures hovering above the summit that lay ahead. “The buzzards circle the mountain looking for dead climbers,” said a straight-faced Carl, as he drove me …
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