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BY TOMMY CULKIN AND KLARK BYRD PAGE 10 PAGE 2 From The archives of the Rabun County Historical society A life stranger Rabun County’s The Photo Next Door ➤ First Ladies than fiction Mary Hambidge in 1919 “Mary would say that she traveled to Greece with PAGE 15-29 had been living on the Jay Hambidge, stopping verge of extinction until in Paris, France, where she met Jay Hambidge.” this photo was taken. Service Above Self: Cricket Werkheiser BY TOMMY CULKIN FROM THE PAGE 6 HAMBIDGE CENTER PAGE 30 KEVIN SHIELDS, PUBLISHER; KLARK BYRD, EDITOR; TOMMY CULKIN, TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER; TREVOR MCNABOE, TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER; TOM TUCKER, DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; DEBBIE MARTIN, SENIOR SALES ASSOCIATE; HEIDI COOK, OFFICE MANAGER; HALLE FOWLER, CUSTOMER SERVICE; DENNIS MARTIN, DISTRIBUTION. THE CLAYTON TRIBUNE IS PUBLISHED AT 120 N. MAIN ST., CLAYTON, GEORGIA, 30525. TO SUBSCRIBE, CALL OUR OFFICE AT 706-782-3312, FAX 706-782-4230 OR VISIT WWW.THECLAYTONTRIBUNE.COM. FIND US ON FACEBOOK: /CLAYTONNEWS THE CLAYTON TRIBUNE IS PRINTED WEEKLY IN THE U.S.A. EXCLUSIVE MARKETING-GLOBAL CONNECTIONS Mary George Barber Poss Born in Athens, Georgia- March 10, 1928 1968-2016 & graduated Athens High School in 1945, then went on to attend the University of Georgia. She married Edwin C. Poss in 706-782-7133 1946, together they have 2 children: Jamie Each Office Independently Owned and Operated. Durrah (husband Tim& 2 sons Ashley & Ryan Martin) & Scott Poss (wife Pat & 3 children: Meredith (Poss)Thompson, Jordan & Nicolaus Poss. Mary George studied art with lessons from Lamar CUSTOMER SATISFACTION Dodd and Tony Van Hassell, had the first art gallery in Athens & Rabun County, Georgia and has many of her paintings displayed in several galleries in Atlanta, Georgia. HOMES - LAND-LOTS - LAKE BURTON She is well known for her Historical scene paintings. She has traveled to Switzerland with other artists as part of an LAKE RABUN - LAKE SEED - LAKE YONAH Exchange Program to display local art and designed Savan- WATERFALL - KINGWOOD - SKY VALLEY nah Place Business Condos, the current RE/MAX of Rabun NORTHRIDGE - HIGHLAND GAP (old Forestry Service building), the Main Street Building, Stornoway Condos, Vince and Barabara Dooley’s first home on Lake Burton, as well as several other homes in the area. www.PossRealty.com She also won first prize from the McCall Magazine for a bathroom design and appeared on the Art Linkletter show, The Clayton 706-782-7133 honored as Homemaker of the Year in Madison County. Tribune Reader’s Choice Survey 2012-2016 PEOPLE’S CHOICE Alley’s Grocery – painted by M.G. Poss Old Clayton – painted by M.G. Poss Prints by Mary George Poss can be viewed or purchased at RE/MAX of 809 HWY 441 S. • CLAYTON, GA • 30525 Rabun in Clayton. RIDGES & REFLECTIONS / DEC 2016 1 1848-1918 MARY ANN LIPSCOMB The Light in the Mountains By Trevor McNaboe and Klark Byrd TRIBUNE STAFF estled along the foothills of the North Geor- tain children to read” from her porch. gia mountains not far from the two-mile long, Mary Ann was so touched by 1,000-foot deep Tallulah Gorge is Tallulah the experience that she used her influence as the president of the Falls School, a beacon of education that has Georgia Federation of Women’s served the families of Habersham and Rabun Clubs to seek a resolution in 1906 for the founding of a school counties for more than a century. there. According to Tallulah N Falls School’s history, Mary The private institution of today serves students from around Ann concluded her resolution by the world. Boasting a multi-million dollar endowment that helps make education there saying, “My sisters, the question among the most affordable in Rabun County, Tallulah Falls School grew from the hum- for you is not what you are going ble beginnings of one woman’s desire to educate the “mountain children.” to get out of the world, but what In 1905, Mary Ann Lipscomb arrived in Tallulah Falls from Athens aboard the Tal- you are going to give the world.” lulah Falls Railroad. Local historian Brian A. Boyd said it was “a period of tremendous With the resolution’s unan- growth” for the small mountain city as the railroad had just 23 years before connected imous adoption, the Tallulah the metropolitan areas of central Georgia to rural Northeast Georgia.The once long Falls Industrial School opened and difficult journey to Tallulah Falls had become a scenic ride toward a booming tour- its doors on June 30, 1909. Mary ist attraction. The city boasted 17 hotels and boarding houses, among them the famous Ann served as the school’s first Cliff House. director until August 1914, Like many who traveled north from Atlanta and Athens, Mary Ann had come to Tal- when due to poor health she lulah Falls to spend the summer. While at her summer cottage, she came to know some named her successor, Lucy of the children in the area and saw in them a desire to learn how to read and write. As Lester Willet. Illness claimed Tallulah Falls School’s history states, Mary Ann “taught an assortment of shy moun- Mary Ann’s life just four years 2 RIDGES & REFLECTIONS / DEC 2016 ➤ MARY ANN LIPSCOMB 1848-1918 Photos from Tallulah Falls School A STATUE OF MARY ANN LIPSCOMB on the Tallulah Falls School campus shows her reading to children. Mary Ann was prompted to start the school after the summer of 1905, when she came across the mountain children of Habersham and Rabun counties who were eager and ready to learn. later, but her dream of edu- Lipscomb, a son of then Uni- the Lucy Cobb Institute. throughout the state. cating the mountain children versity of Georgia chancellor As a result of navigat- In the wake of the Industri- continued. What had begun Andrew Lipscomb. The mar- ing the hardship of raising al Revolution, the nation had as summer lessons on Mary riage lasted just five years as her children alone, Mary a need for textiles. Children Ann’s porch in 1905 had just tuberculosis claimed the life Ann became an advocate were more likely to report to 10 years later grown into a of her husband. Francis left for women’s financial inde- work than to school. Mary school boasting 96 students. Mary Ann with three young pendence. Along with fellow Ann challenged mill owners Education was in Mary children. Lucy Cobb Institute educator with a presentation on child Ann’s blood. Born to Wil- Mary Ann moved to Wash- Rosa Woodberry, Mary Ann labor to prevent situations in liams and Laura Rutherford ington, D.C., to pursue a bet- founded the Athens Woman’s which children would be as- in December 1848, she was ter career opportunity and Club, a chapter of the Georgia signed to underpaid and dan- the daughter of a Universi- to take care of her children. Federation of Women’s Clubs. gerous jobs. When the move- ty of Georgia mathematics She became an educator at Among the organization’s ac- ment failed to gain traction, professor. Education would the Waverly Seminary un- complishments was its work she switched her focus to pro- always factor largely into her til moving home six years with area schools to provide viding education to all chil- life, going hand in hand with later to join her sister, Mil- textbooks and supplies for dren. She did this statewide her religious upbringing. dred Rutherford, at her alma students to enhance their by issuing letters to newspa- Mary Ann attended a pri- mater, the Lucy Cobb Insti- studies. pers throughout the state and vate school in Athens led by tute. During the following 27 As Mary Ann continued to lawmakers. Elvira Lee before graduating years, Mary Ann served as her work with the Georgia An article in the May from the Lucy Cobb Institute, a teacher and later as princi- Federation of Women’s Clubs, 9, 1909, Atlanta Journal, which had been founded by pal. Mildred also served the she expanded her scope be- penned by Mary Ann, states her uncle, Thomas Cobb. school as teacher, principal, yond the work of the Athens “Our women were in dead In 1869, Mary Ann married co-principal and until her Woman’s Club for Athens earnest when they pled for a Civil War veteran Francis death in 1928 was president of and Clark County to areas Child Labor Law in Georgia. 4 RIDGES & REFLECTIONS / DEC 2016 They pleaded long and earnestly, and well, until they secured a law which would free the children from labor in the mills and workshops. They are in dead earnest now, or to change BETHEL& CO. the phrase a little, they are in living earnest now in advocat- — ESTABLISHED 1975 — ing compulsory education for the state — a law which would Tax Return Preparation take the child out of the streets and the fields and put him in TAX RETURN PREPARATION ACCOUNTING SERVICES Accounting ServicesBookkeeping the same room.” Business Check Writing CO.