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SUMMARY:2026 Bicentennial Lunch & Learn Series: Homesteads and Hope: Georgia’s Midcentury Experiments in Communal Farming
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. John Cable as he discusses the topic of his next book: Homesteads and Hope: Georgia's Midcentury Experiments in Communal Farming. Dr. Cable received his doctorate from Florida States University and leads classes in the History Department at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton.\n\n\n\nIn the 1930s and 1940s   amid depression and war   hundreds of Georgians joined planned farming communities. Dr. Cable will give an overview of resettlement communities run by the federal government\, including Irwinville (Irwin County)\, Wolf Creek (Grady County)\, and the all-African American Flint River Farms project (Macon County) as well as non-government farming communities like Koinonia (Sumter County) and the Monastery of the Holy Spirit (Rockdale County).
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><span style="color:rgba(0\,0\,0\,var(--O42jJQ\,1))">Join Dr. John Cable as he discusses the topic of his next book: </span><em>Homesteads and Hope: Georgia&rsquo\;s Midcentury Experiments in Communal Farming</em><span style="color:rgba(0\,0\,0\,var(--O42jJQ\,1))">. Dr. Cable received his doctorate from Florida States University and leads classes in the History Department at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton.<br />\n<br />\nIn the 1930s and 1940s &mdash\; amid depression and war &mdash\; hundreds of Georgians joined planned farming communities. Dr. Cable will give an overview of resettlement communities run by the federal government\, including Irwinville (Irwin County)\, Wolf Creek (Grady County)\, and the all-African American Flint River Farms project (Macon County) as well as non-government farming communities like Koinonia (Sumter County) and the Monastery of the Holy Spirit (Rockdale County).</span></p>\n
LOCATION:Thomasville History Center 725 N. Dawson St. Thomasville\, GA 31792
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URL:https://business.thomasvillechamber.com/events/details/2026-bicentennial-lunch-learn-series-homesteads-and-hope-georgia-s-midcentury-experiments-in-communal-farming-2371
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