Pick of the Month Genealogy Book

Before this month gets away, I want to tell you about Irene's pick-of-the-month genealogy book. The title is The Courthouse and the Depot (I've decided to put titles in italics because it's easier to read than quotes). It's a narrative guide to railroad expansion and its impact on public architecture in Georgia from 1833 to 1910 by author Wilber W. Caldwell. The book is not an architectural history, but a history narrated by architecture. This is a book about small towns because the South of 1910 was small towns. It's a book about courthouses because, more than any other building of that era, courthouses symbolized the collective self-image of the townspeople. Similarly, it's a book about depots because depots symbolized the hopes for a promising future, and the neglect of these depots symbolizes the disappointment of those hopes. It's The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair. Of course, we here in Moultrie know where the courthouse is, but do you happen to know where the nearest depot to you is located? Better find it now and take a picture. It could be gone in a couple of years.