Athens: Celebrating 200 Years at the Millennium [Hardcover]

Conoly Hester (Author), Albert L. Hester (Author), Diane A. Adams (Foreword)

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• Hardcover: 143 pages
• Publisher: Community Communications Inc.; 1st edition (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 188535228X
• ISBN-13: 978-1885352286
• Product Dimensions: 13 x 10.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,057,716 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Profile of a Classic City, February 29, 2000

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ATHENS, GEORGIA: CELEBRATING 200 YEARS AT THE MILLENNIUM is an elegant look at an elegant city. Athens is, as Conoly Hester writes, the town that education built. Home of the oldest state-chartered university in the nation, Athens honors the ideals of the Greek heritage echoed in the name it chose for itself. With sumptuous photographs by Terry Allen, this book brings to life a community rooted in the Old South but striving always,with great self-assurance, to reach for ideas that will generate the future. Through thoughtful sketches of the enterprises of Athens, Al Hester shows what continuity and creativity cam mean to civic life. Just as important have been the arts and athletics, and Conoly Hester weaves them into the lore of the town. Perhaps it is the anchoring presense of the University of Georgia that has given Athens the confidence to build from its past on the wrong side of the Civil War an enlightened city that incorporates into its psyche all the complexity, anguish and joy of 200 profoundly useful years. The Hesters have done so well by Athens that every city in America will want them to write its profile too.