Baseball was a big deal in the textile era. Every mill village in North Georgia had a baseball team. The mill villagers’ performance was far from amateur; many players reached ...

A Missouri native who made her home in Texas, she drew on the Hill Country's rugged beauty while writing westerns and historical novels.

Mrs. Frances Michael Smith Raley, born to Helen Grace Savage Smith and Francis Michael Smith on Oct. 21, 1944, in Nassawadox, ...