Former Atlanta Journal editor Jim Wooten bought and restored the “Talmadge Mansion” of the late Gov. Gene Talmadge in rural Telfair County, Ga., a few years back, as Elliott Brack write recently in GwinnettForum.com:
“In today’s world, this residence looks much like a Southern 5-4-and-a-door, with two-story white columns, red brick, and set about 100 yards back from the highway in a grove of pine trees. But it wasn’t built in today’s world, but constructed 77 years ago when most people in Telfair County probably didn’t have running water in their homes, and many had to bring out the buckets when it rained because of leaks in the roof.”
2014 copyrighted photo by Elliott Brack. All rights reserved.