Ramblin' Rhodes: PBS in Georgia has come a long way in half century
Public television broadcasting certainly has come a long way since when Georgia educational TV station WCES in Wrens serving the Augusta area went on the air 50 years ago on Sept. 12, 1966.Originally,...
View ArticleRamblin' Rhodes: Dixie Echoes to deliver Southern gospel message twice
One of Southern gospel music’s most popular groups, The Dixie Echoes, has been performing in the Augusta area since the mid-1960s including hosting major gospel music shows at Bell Auditorium.They will...
View ArticleRamblin' Rhodes: Kopple's films capture intriguing tales of Dixie Chicks, Jones
Two-time Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple has made a career taking on intriguing subjects such as her film Miss Sharon Jones! about the Augusta native and her battle with cancer. But even...
View ArticleRamblin' Rhodes: Longtime paper carrier Nunamaker always delivered smiles
Most of you probably never see your Augusta Chronicle carrier since they usually deliver the newspaper in pre-dawn hours.But I constantly was running into Betty Nunamaker, my carrier of 15 or more...
View ArticleRamblin' Rhodes: Friends have long inspired music, musicians in Augusta
It was a strange over-lapping last weekend with the funeral and celebration of life of my good friend Bill Macky and the first Augusta showing of the documentary film Miss Sharon Jones!read more
View ArticleRamblin' Rhodes: Mountain Faith brings bluegrass from Smokies to Augusta
This weekend will see the second offering of the Morris Museum of Art’s Budweiser True Music Southern Soul & Song series in Augusta and the first offering of a new fall series in Edgefield.And you...
View ArticleRamblin' Rhodes: New Native American festival was born of Oka'Chaffa
Phil Galaviz of Lawrenceville, Ga., promises that the Native American festival being held this weekend near Augusta Regional Airport – an offshoot of the Oka’Chaffa Indian Festival held the past four...
View ArticleRamblin' Rhodes: Big & Rich concert kicks off music, football weekend
Millions of viewers of the ESPN cable network for almost a decade have heard Big Kenny (Alphin) and John Rich’s rocking recording Comin’ To Your City as the theme for the network’s College GameDay...
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