The Upson Historical Society November issue has many interesting items. Shanna English is going to be their speaker next Monday Nov 24th. Many of you will recognize that name from all the many, many contributions she has made for our on-line pages. We're always mentioning the work she's done on the Old Jail Museame and Archives in Barnesville. (And it really is an Archives -- she has a growing collection!) A new series of historical pieces by Melvin Bentley, written as a young man and printed in the 1954 Thomaston Times. These describe the county and his interviews with citizens at that time. You'll love reading about people you would be sure to remember. Penny Cliff gives her usual interesting column and this time it was on smallpox and the devastation it caused. She quotes from the Upson County Minutes of 1853. Dr. E.A. Flewellen was treating a patient with smallpox and then had to undergo quarantine himself -- and the house (hospital) where he was treating him had to be burned to the ground. Smallpox reoccured in other years -- 1903 Dr. W.J. Jones was paid to guard a home for 20 days and nights. Hartford Pryor writes his monthly column and highlights Otis Jones and his "blind man's store". I know all of you will really enjoy your issues -- and we all look forward to them each month! This one is issue 6 of the 37th year! Virginia Crilley