Anne was so fascinated by Vernon’s stories that she went home and wrote them down, using his own words as he had related them.  Realizing that other people would undoubtedly be interested, she showed what she had written to Dorsey Martin, Editor of The Dahlonega Nugget.  Dorsey not only agreed to publish the article; he encouraged her to interview other old-timers for future columns, which he titled, “I Remember Dahlonega.”  These columns generated so much popular response that Anne spent the next ten years collecting oral history and writing weekly “I Remember Dahlonega” columns.

About the Author

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    These columns were published in four volumes entitled I Remember Dahlonega; Memories of Growing in Lumpkin County between 1990 and 1997. The books also include extensive historical information researched by the author, including material relating to the community’s earliest beginnings when Dahlonega was the site of the nation’s first major gold rush, twenty years before gold was discovered in California.

    In 1990 Anne began submitting articles based on her historical research to the quarterly North Georgia Journal.  She is still a regular contributor to this publication, now titled Georgia Backroads and extended to cover the  state. “Readin,’ ‘Ritin’& ‘Rithmetic; Frontier Era Education in the Georgia High Country” appeared in the Summer 2006 issue, and “Tales of the Old Mountain Roads” was published in Winter 2006. Georgia Backroads may be contacted at PO Box 585, Armuchee, GA 30105; telephone 1-800-547-1625.

    Other books followed in subsequent years: Dahlonega’s Historic Square; Then and Now Stories about the Buildings and the People in 2002; The Best of “I Remember Dahlonega’ and Dahlonega: A Brief History, both published by the History Press in 2006.  A historical novel entitled Dahlonega’s Gold, set between 1830 and 1900, is in process.