Two men, one crime, and the heavyweight championship of the world
In 2004, I wrote this cover story for Creative Loafing, Atlanta's major newsweekly at the time. The events covered in the story – centered around a crime that occurred…
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Travel journalist Blake Guthrie is a longtime contributor to the Sunday travel section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has also written for USA Today, HuffPost, Trivago Magazine, and many other regional and national outlets. His primary focus is on destinations in the American South where he has lived for most of his life. Guthrie has also resided in Park City, Utah, where he worked at a ski lodge; in New York City where he served as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and on the coast of Maine where he supported himself by toiling the graveyard shift on an assembly line in a video cassette factory during a time when Blockbuster stores still populated the American landscape.
From slavery to civil rights: Tracing Montgomery’s long road to equal justice
Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, Montgomery was a city I passed through on the way to the beach or visited on grade school field trips to the state capitol building. I even visited the governor's mansion on one of those…
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The natural side of South Walton in the Florida Panhandle
Scenic Highway 30A in the South Walton area of the Florida Panhandle has become more than just a dogleg route off of U.S. 98 connecting small beach communities; 30A is now a lifestyle as well as a study in contrasts…
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I like beer!
Curious about what would pop up, I typed the word "beer" into the search bar of my digital photo albums. What follows are the photos that showed up in the results. Most are pics from my travels. I guess I…
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Fall is Prime Time to go to Blue Ridge and Ellijay in North Georgia
Cloud Nine. It’s the type of name one would expect for a mountain vacation rental home. It’s one of those places that if you try and follow GPS directions you’ll get lost. The rental agency sent a confirmation that stressed…
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