"Jesus don't give a hoot about baseball" -Leonard Cassity

It is 1921a year after the Clarke County Democrats stole a bus that would change everything for the semi-professional baseball team of Thomasville, Alabama. With their owner and manager, Win Harrigan, behind the wheel, the Democrats head out on the road where they hope to achieve financial success. As the team of unlikely players follows a schedule of eight away games, it soon becomes evident that it is going to take more than just brains and ingenuity to create a winning record for the folks back in Thomasville that include young newlyweds, Leonard and Frances Cassity. When tragedy strikes the Cassitys, Leonard is eventually recruited to play for the Democrats as he attempts to create a better life for his new bride. But when his desire to please Frances leads him to carry out an unthinkable act, Leonard is about to discover that there are consequences for every choice in life. The Clarke County Democrats shares the compelling tale of a young recruits journey through tragedies and challenges during 1920s America after he decides to play for an Alabama baseball team.

Sol Handy was editor of the Clark County Democrat during the time period covered in this volume.

Published in 1974, Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia is a chronicle of sixty years of change in Clarke County and the city of Athens. In 1801, Clarke County, newly created from Jackson County, was virtually all Georgia farmland, and Athens was a portion of land set aside for the establishment of a state university. In those first years of the century, the university began with thirty or forty students. They received instruction from Josiah Meigs--president and faculty of the university--in a twenty-by-twenty-foot log cabin. By 1846, the population of the county was over four thousand, and the area prospered. Cotton mills dotted the banks of the Oconee River, the Georgia Railroad connected Athens with Augusta, numerous schools and churches had been established, and newspapers, banks, and small businesses were all part of the Athens scene. Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia is rich with detail. This historical narrative recalls not only the growth of industry, government, and education within Clarke County, but also contains many anecdotes of the early people who lived there. The chronology of dates and events and the comprehensive listing of public officials, professional men, planters, and businessmen found in the appendixes of Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia add to the value of this work of local history.