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Since the 11th Hour started, something that has been prohibitively expensive for us has been newspaper boxes. Those big metal boxes you see on street corners costs about $400 each, and though we get one or two when we can, we haven’t been able to get as many as we would like. I’ve asked other newspapers to buy their old ones for years, and even when I could see hundreds of them sitting in their back lots like scrap metal, they refused to sell me any. That changed in January, when a now-defunct newspaper in Atlanta sold me 70 newspaper boxes. Over the next several months, we will begin the process of refurbishing these boxes, and putting them out all over town. The 11th Hour is about to be bigger, and more visible, than ever, and we are very excited about that. We even have some very exciting news to announce very soon about ten very special boxes that will be placed downtown in March. It won’t be long before just about everywhere you go in Macon you’ll see us there!

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I tend to stay pretty busy from January until around midApril due to all the activities leading up to and included in Cherry Blossom Festival, so I relish any opportunity to get away from my desk and enjoy life outside of the office. This past weekend, I was able to spend an afternoon at the Indian Mounds and was reminded of the immense beauty and historical significance of the site. Middle Georgian’s are incredibly fortunate to have a National Monument of its size and scale within the city limits, especially one that offers so many opportunities for outdoor education and recreation. Over the course of the afternoon friends and I hiked nearly all of the six miles of trails at the park, capping the afternoon off with the trek to the top of the Great Temple Mound to look out over Downtown Macon and the surrounding area. I want to encourage you to visit the Mounds as soon as possible, but also tune into the work that the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative team are doing. If you’re unaware, the group is tirelessly working towards achieving National Park status for Mounds and the surrounding area, making if the first National Park & Preserve in the United States east of the Mississippi River. Visit them online at OcmulgeePark.org for more information on how you can help contribute to the success of this amazing project. Now get outside and enjoy this wonderful weather! The circus is coming to town! Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey present “Built to Amaze” at the Macon Coliseum from January 29th - February 1st. The show features dozens of acts of all variety including athletes, animals, and perfumers from around the world. The show is “engineered for excitement and custom built for family fun”. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey are known internationally for providing the highest quality of circus entertainment available and the “Built to Amaze” show is another amazing production from their roster. The Tubman African American Museum hosts the 19th annual “All The Jazz” concert and ball on Saturday, January 31st at the Macon City Auditorium. “All That Jazz” has grown to be one of the museum’s largest

annual fundraiser events and routinely features nationally renowned performers. For 2015, they’ll be bringing Grammy-winning vocalist Stephanie Mills to Macon for a night to remember. Stephanie has five best-selling albums and ten Billboard #1 singles to her name and will definitely delight the audience. Tickets are available by calling 478-743-8544. After a two-year hiatus, DSEL Productions will be bringing their “BASSFACE” dance party back to Macon! On Friday, February 7th, join Drill Cosby, Andy Bruh, and Squirrelly for a night of music spanning the sub-genres of EDM. BASSFACE was one of the biggest parties in Middle Georgia during its peak and I’ve heard plenty of people excited for the event to return. This all goes down at The Brickhouse at The Crazy Bull and is open to ages 18+. Politically-charged comedian Bill Maher will be at the Macon City Auditorium on Saturday, February 7th to dish out his side-splitting stand up. Maher has earned more than twenty-five Emmy nominations over the course of his career and made recent headlines for his remarks about the Charlie Hebdo attack and aftermath. Tickets are available through the Auditorium Box Office and Website. COMING UP: The Glands w/ Roly Bots @ The Hummingbird February 13th Cirque D’or @ Grand Opera House February 14th-15th Tedeschi Trucks Band @ Macon City Auditorium February 27th Macon Pops - The Music of Macon @ Macon City Auditorium : February 28th International Cherry Blossom Festival March 19th - April 4th

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Moonhanger and the Big House Presents Live at The Fillmore The definitive tribute to the Allman Brothers Band. Concert at 6 p.m. Musically and sonically, LATF creates the experience of hearing one of the greatest live bands of all time as they sounded in 1969-1971. Tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door.

Shades of Grey Opening Reception Presented by Macon Arts Alliance 5-8 p.m. Free and open to the public. A special exhibit of black and white art by NC-artist collective “Complimentary Colors.” Works in a variety of media including fiber art, oil , acrylic, photography, mixed media, and collage.

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National Theatre Live: “Treasure Island” Presented by Douglass Theatre 3 p.m. It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge seachest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins. $20 and $15 for seniors and students. 355 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

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All That Jazz, annual Tubman African American Museum Fundraiser Join us for the 19th annual All That Jazz concert and ball featuring Stephanie Mills at the Macon City Auditorium. Stephanie Mills is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music whose onstage energy and power inspires standing ovations wherever she performs. She is a legendary Grammy and America Music Award winning recording artist with five best selling albums and ten Billboard #1 singles. Floor seats – $125, Balcony – $25. For tickets call 478-743-8544. The Vagina Monologues 8 p.m. Wesleyan’s Theatre Club presents a staged reading of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play. All proceeds will benefit non-profit organizations that provide services to victims of domestic violence. Tickets: $5.00. (478) 757-5259 or theatre@wesleyancollege.edu. All proceeds will benefit non-profit organizations that provide services to victims of domestic violence. Also Jan. 31. Fort Hawkins Salutes the New Orleans Victory Free event 12-4 p.m.Fort Hawkins will remember the end of the War of 1812 and the victory at New Orleans as they did two hundred years ago. After learning of the American victory in New Orleans on January 8, 1815, Fort Hawkins celebrated with a nineteen gun salute at the end of January 1815. Visitors will learn of the importance of Fort Hawkins as “The Pentagon of the South” in the new log cabin Visitors Center and pose for photos with a War of 1812 soldier. Many of the soldiers in the Battle of New Orleans were from Fort Hawkins, most particularly the 7th U.S. Infantry who became known as the Cottonbalers after this victory.

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Macon Symphony Youth Orchestra Free, 7 p.m. The chamber ensembles of the Macon Symphony Youth Orchestra present a concert showcasing the works of African American composers. Beulahland Bible Church, 1010 Newberg Ave. Macon

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Mardi Gras Party at The Library Ballroom The Library Ballroom would like to invite you to our 1st Annual Mardi Gras party on Fat Tuesday! Please join us on February 17th in celebrating this New Orleans tradition in our very own historic Downtown Macon. Come and enjoy delectable Cajun style food and drinks in the enchanting atmosphere of the Library Ballroom. The event will also feature the sensational Dixieland sounds of The World Famous Walnut Street Dixie, Racing & Marching Society Jazz Band. The night will be filled with activities! Find the surprise in your slice of King Cake and win a free Hurricane! We will also have a raffle courtesy of local Downtown establishments! This is the event where you can dress up as anything! Party as a superhero, jester, flapper, or be creative in your own Mardi Gras style. A prize will be awarded for best costume! The party kicks off at 8:00 p.m. until 11:30 p.m. Tickets are $15.00 per person or $25.00 per couple, 21 and up. 478-957-7728

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5th Annual Blind Wine Tasting

presented by Signature Salon. Check out our new location of Signature Salon, 1520 Bass Road! Wine tasting 7:30 p.m. Enjoy a fantastic food, wine tasting and cash bar. Form a team of four friends or come on your own and experience this fun event! Each team provides 4 bottles of their favorite red or white wine and joins in the tasting party as each bottle is wrapped from view. At the end of the night, we will vote on our favorites - yours might be the winner! The winning wine’s team will take home 1 bottle of each wine from the evening!A benefit for Jay’s Hope, 4 Kids with Cancer.

Macon Civic Club’s Annual Musical Revue “Heartbreak Hotel” Feb. 4-7 at The Grand Opera House Tom Swift is not afraid to make a bold move. He moved to Macon from Columbus, Georgia to study law. He met his wife, Courtney on a blind date, and he decided after years of practicing law to become, as he calls it, a pool boy, and according to him, it is the best decision of his life. “Currently, I am the President and Chief Operating Officer for ASP Franchising, LLC, the parent company to the America’s Swimming Pool Company,” said Swift, “Prior to ASP, I practiced law in Macon. Ironically, Stewart Vernon, the founder of ASP, was one of my first clients. After years of working with him, I left the practice of law to become his business partner at ASP. From tax attorney, to pool boy… who would have ever thought?! This turned out to be the one of the best decisions of my life.” Even though Swift keeps a busy schedule with his company and raising his family (he has two children, Phillips (7) and Mary Marshall (5,)) he has found time to serve his community through The Macon Civic Club. This year, he is the Show Chairman, and that means he had to come up with the theme of this year’s performance. “It is 100% the responsibility of the Show Chairman to create a theme and decide what songs are to be parts of the show. Courtney and I came up with Heartbreak Hotel.” Over a few months, the couple listened to over 400 songs trying to decide on the perfect theme. Their goal was to find something that would be different, and with songs that had never been performed by the club. “We were sitting together one night and Elton John’s song Don’t Go Breaking My Heart came on. We are both big Elton John fans and thought this would be a great show song.” As the couple listened to more and more music, they came up with the idea to create a show that followed a progressive theme, and have it centered around something most people can say they had experienced, “That excitement of young love, the heartbreak and disappointment of love lost, and finally the exhilaration of love reunited. The songs in the show follow this story line, which is set at the Heartbreak Hotel on Lonely Street. We think this is going to be a fun show for the audience.” The Macon Civic Club has put on a music and comedy revue for the past 54 years. The money they raise from ticket sales go to over 50 different local charities. Last year, their show titled Soul Shine, raised over $179,000 with four performances. This year’s show will be directed by Jim Crisp, Choreographed by Sylvia Haynie, and the music will be directed by Laura Voss. “The songs this year will combine a wide range of music types. We will have everything from Motown with the Temptations and the Spinners to Country with Toby Keith and Willie Nelson. There will be a little Southern Rock with Jupiter Coyote and the Marshall Tucker Band, as well as Broadway, James Taylor, and Elton John. We’ve even added a little Bon Jovi to spice things up!” The Macon Civic Club’s Heartbreak Hotel will be performed February 4th – 7th at The Grand Opera House in Macon. Tickets range from $20 on Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, and $40 on Friday night, which will include a Patron Party, food & drinks before the show, and The Funniest Jokes following the main performance. “We have been working on the show for almost a year now,” said Swift, “We are very proud of how it is shaping up and hope that the audience will have as much fun watching it as we are having putting it on!” The Macon Civic Club is a local civic organization made up of local leaders and businessmen from the Greater Macon area. This club is the only one in the state that does a yearly performance to raise funds for local charities. “We have a very loyal audience who come to see the show each year. Without them, we would not be able to raise the money needed. Thank you, Macon!” For tickets: http://maconcivicclub.com/buy-tickets/ - Nicole Abdou 11thHourOnline.com 05

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Jan. 29-30, 7 pm Jan. 31, 11am, 3pm, 7pm Feb. 1, 1pm Macon Centreplex Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® Presents Built To Amaze!℠- Nuts & Boltz Edition. Experience all the things you know and love and be amazed by things you’ve never seen before! Witness superhuman stunts so close, you can FEEL it! Astonishing performers, awe-inspiring athletes and amazing animals from around the globe have been assembled in one place providing a riveting display of unimaginable proportions that are Engineered for Excitement and Custom Built for Family Fun! Tickets $12 and up. Maconcentreplex.com

Featuring Tubing slides made from real snow, Indoor & Outdoor activities throughout the weekend including zip-lining, a snow ride around the museum, a craft show, a chili cook off, food vendors, hot chocolate bar, cookie and cupcake decorating and much more. As a new addition to our Winter Wonderfest, we will have an adult snow tubing festival on Saturday night for grown-ups, featuring food vendors and a live band. Armbands are $10.00 For more formation visit www.museumofaviaiton.org

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The Spongebob Movie was shot on various locations in Savannah and Tybee Island, filming began on October 9, 2013 where various establishments were changed to resemble a beach community. Sponsored by the Macon Film Festival. Tickets: $7.50 Adults, $7.25 Children/Seniors. Amstar Cinemas

Friday, Feb. 13 Museum of Arts & Sciences The Museum Guild presents the 20th Annual Father and Daughter Dance, when fathers and daughters can spend time dancing the night away, while creating cherished memories and enjoying delectable delights. Fathers can experience a memorable evening with their “little girls” and daughters of all ages Reservations are required. 478-477-3232.

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The Inaugural Cherry Bomb competition is hosted by Gorilla CrossFit during the annual Cherry Blossom Festival when more than 300,000 Yoshino Cherry trees will be in bloom. Macon, GA is the Cherry Blossom capital of the world and home to many renowned musical artists such as the Allman Brothers, Little Richard, and Otis Redding. So take the time to come sweat it out as an individual competitor or as a partner pair. There will be plenty of recovery activities to enjoy while the festival is going on. We welcome you to our beautiful town and offer a great place for friendly competition.

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OCMULGEE PHOTO CHOSEN FOR 2015 PASSPORT STAMP

Ocmulgee National Monument was chosen as the 2015 Southeast region winner in the Passport To Your National Parks® Photo Contest. A contest is held every year by Eastern National to decide which 10 parks will be featured on the annual stamp series. The contest is open to active National Park Service employees and Volunteers-In-Parks (VIPs). The Passport program, launched in 1986, provides park information and encourages visitation to all of America’s national parks. It includes a passport book and provides space for stamps which can be found in almost every national park. Superintendent Jim David said “I am very excited about this. I have been waiting for years for Ocmulgee to be chosen. Our volunteer Sharman Ayoub has taken many beautiful pictures of the park, and it’s fitting that they chose one of her pictures for the stamp. My family and I have been using the Park Passport program to record our visits to other National Park sites for many years, and it is great to be able to add the Ocmulgee picture stamp to our collection.” The Passport Stamps and the Passport books are both available for purchase in the Ocmulgee National Monument museum store. The museum store is open daily from 9-5. Proceeds support park programs and events.

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The 2015 Magnolia Soapbox Derby will be held on April 11th, and teams are encouraged to sign up now. Race details are available at www.magnoliaderby. com. With over 6 vendors, 30+ cars and live entertainment, the Magnolia Soap Box Derby will be the must see event of the spring. “We are excited to grow this year as we add the All American Soapbox Derby Gravity Racing Challenge and STEM Educational Collaborative thanks to generous funding of Knight Neighborhood Challenge, a project of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation,” says Chris Tsavatewa, Magnolia Soapbox Derby Co-Director.

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Foo Fighters, Zac Brown Band, My Morning Jacket! Hangout Music Festival has announced their 2015 lineup. The sixth festival installment will take place May 15-17, 2015 and will feature headliners Foo Fighters, Zac Brown Band, Beck, My Morning Jacket, Skrillex, Paramore, Foster The People, Spoon and over 70 bands to the beautiful white sandy beaches of Gulf Shores, AL. Three day tickets go on-sale Tuesday, January 12th at 10 AM EST and are $249. To purchase three-day tickets, visit www.hangoutmusicfest.com Hangout Music Festival is the first and only festival of its kind. The festival’s extraordinary beach backdrop and sandy walkways make Hangout Music Festival the premiere music festival destination for music fan. Food offerings include fresh local seafood offerings prepared by renowned regional chefs in the Alabama Gulf Seafood Courtyard. VIP ticket-holders are receiving a new perk this year – unique food experiences from award winning chefs. Other benefits of the acclaimed VIP area include easy access to the festival through special entrances, prime viewing areas, including swimming pools with views of the main stage, a shaded VIP Grove with complimentary beverages as well as

private, airconditioned restrooms and more. Super VIPs will also receive 24/7 concierge services, access to a private and air-conditioned dining room and lounge featuring exclusive meals prepared by renowned chefs, golf cart chauffeur service, priority on-site lodging reservation privileges and more. VIP tickets are available for $1099 and a limited number of Super VIP tickets will also be available for $1699. To purchase VIP tickets, visit: www.hangoutmusicfest.com The Hangout Music Fest is located in Gulf Shores, Alabama - just a few miles from the Florida border. The Gulf Shores area offers a wide arrange of vacation rentals including condos, hotels and beach houses - many of which are located within walking or biking distance to the festival. Fans looking to book a place to stay for the festival and more information www.hangoutmusicfest.com. 11thHourOnline.com 11

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The brewing and consumption of beer goes as far back as the Egyptians, who not only held the beverage in high regard, but often used it as a form of currency. In the thousands of years that have since transpired, beer has taken on new shapes, flavors, and connotations. More recently, “Craft brewing” has grown exponentially across the U.S. over the last few decades. This movement has spurred a renewed interest in craft beer, home brewing and not surprisingly, more breweries, all with new and increasingly adventurous flavors and ABVs. Locally, breweries and growler spots continue to pop up across the state of Georgia and even in our fair city, standing as sudsy bastions of the expanding palette of beer drinkers in our community. In a town known throughout the world for its music history, a town slap full of fascinating stories delivered by skilled storytellers, it’s quite a task to discover a tale that hasn’t been explored at length and shared as one of the countless examples of why our town is so unique. Well, dear reader, I think we found one.

Beer was big business in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Macon. The undisputed queen of them all was the Acme Brewing Company. In 1893, a group of prominent Maconites bought the floundering Macon Brewing company (which itself was formally registered as a business in 1877) in an attempt to establish a successful brewery in Macon, Georgia.

A headline screams “Hundreds Rush new name, Acme Brewing did just that over Growler as Never Rushed Before …” the next decade by gradually increasing This Macon Telegraph story does not go on production and expanding operations to a to describe a half-off sale at Growler Spot or level that not even Acme’s early investors Just Tap’d (formerly Lazy Dog): it’s describcould have predicted. ing a day that jolted hundreds of beer Acme Brewing’s investors and endrinkers in Middle Georgia into trepreneurs constituted a veritable immediate action for a much “who’s who” roster of movers more dire reason. The article and shakers in Macon: Alexdescribes one tragic day in ander “Aleck” Block served 1908 when Acme Brewing, as the president initially, Macon’s largest brewery Charles Reb Massenburg (and one of the largest in took a turn as secretary the South at the time), and treasurer, and Henry was forced to empty the Horne, the mayor of remainder of its stock to Macon in the mid-1890s, comply with a statewide served as vice president. (not nationwide…yet) Under the robust leaderprohibition ordinance. ship of Dr. J. S. Baxter, the The next passage of the Acme Brewing Company article describes an espeflourished through the 1890s cially fantastic anachronism and 1900s, quickly becomindisputably caused by the ing one of the most successful mandated disposal of one of the businesses in Macon by establishALECK BLOCK most delicious beers in the Southing itself as a formidable brewery east. An uncharacteristically (for throughout the state of Georgia the time) diverse crowd of five and beyond. hundred men, women, and children, black and white gathered together, drinking their fill of the river of beer flowing from the brewery’s drains. Many brought containers of all sorts (growlers, bottles, pots, even Both the short-lived Macon Brewing hats!) in a futile attempt to save some beer Company and its successor Acme Brewing touted their high tech approach to brewing. for later—all united in their love for beer An 1889 newspaper article lavished praise and disdain for the looming statewide prohibition ordinance. Even during a period of on the Macon Brewing Company’s works, describing the facilities in lavish detail: the our history rife with racial discrimination, entire apparatus was powered by two “magbeer brought us all together. nificent Corliss engines, 24-inch cylinder, Believe it or not, beer was big business perhaps the finest in the South.” In 1903, a in late nineteenth and early twentieth-cendecade after change to the Acme Brewing tury Macon. The undisputed queen of name, the brewery expanded dramatically them all was the Acme Brewing Company. and doubled its capacity to nearly 70,000 In 1893, a group of prominent Maconites barrels per year. In a nearby building, a bought the floundering Macon Brewing state-of-the art machine, the Cleveland company (which itself was formally regisLoco Germicider, destroyed germs and tered as a business in 1877) in an attempt preserved the beer’s flavor. Part of Acme’s to establish a successful brewery in Macon, success lay in its ability to handle several Georgia. Armed with new leadership and a

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Acme Brewing ad, 1908

Acme Brewing ad, 1911 different brewing and beer distributing-related tasks in a single sprawling complex. At Acme’s height, the company produced thousands of pounds of its own clear ice, made its own barrels, and managed its own stable. All of this activity took place on a campus of handsome brick and stone buildings near Lower Bay Street, an ideal location in part because of its easy rail access.

Acme’s American Queen: A beer for the whole family When asked about Acme Brewing’s American Queen beer, a traveling businessman gushed (or what passed for gushing in 1901): “I heard so much of the American Queen beer … that I fell into a habit of asking for American Queen when I wanted a bottle of beer…I found it such a splendid beer that I now drink no other brand.” American Queen was advertised as “a woman’s beer, a child’s beer, and a man’s beer,” and was certainly the best known of the Acme products, but it was just one of several fascinating offerings. The Famous “Malt Tonic” of the late 1890s was, according to its producers, “The Greatest of All Liquid Foods.” The “Malt Tonic” touted a means to create “Blood, Flesh, and Nerve Force,” and there was “Nothing better for Invalids and Nursing Mothers.” By the 1910s, American Queen had been joined by Red Eagle Beer, Bohemian Lager and a Wiener Lager. Believe it or not, the widespread popularity of Acme Brewing’s products was not only rooted in great taste and brilliant advertising. In 1897, good fortune struck when South Carolina changed its laws to require beer to be sold through approved outlets. Through methods that we have yet to determine, Acme managed to win a contract to supply beer to the entire state of South Carolina, if only for a limited time. While it’s inherently obvious that this development gave Acme Brewing the ability (by way of a monopoly) to sell a large quantity of beer outside of Georgia, the reputation of Acme’s products and the flavor captured in each bottle traveled outside the southeastern United States, stretching as far as Cuba, where the Acme brand was quite popular without the aid of a monopoly on beer sales. After a short-lived experiment with prohibition, 14 JANUARY 28- FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Acme realized its days producing mainly alcoholic beverages were numbered. Records from the period after 1908 (when Georgia’s prohibition ordinance passed) point to a wide array of beverages: ginger ales, colas, and near beers, such as the less-than-2%-alcohol Maltale and the alcohol-free Acme-Brew, which was purported to rise “far above the most sanguine expectations of the drinkers of spirituous liquors.” Not surprisingly, Georgia’s Prohibition, which predated national prohibition by three years, weakened and finally killed Acme Brewing Company. After hosting a number of less notable businesses, the handsome brick buildings fell into disrepair and almost all of them were eventually torn down. Just as depressing is the fact that Macon’s huge contribution to beer history has been all but forgotten … until now.

Acme Brewing Historical Society A librarian, a Native American and two historians meet up for a beer and a chat: The founding of the Acme Brewing Historical Society … This whole party started with a last-minute idea from Macon’s favorite Native American, Chris Tsavatewa. Tsavatewa put together a display for the Macon Beer festival that featured his growing collection of Acme breweriana, but he wanted more information about the history of Acme Brewing to supplement his display, which is where the librarian, yours truly, came in. At the start of all of this, I expected to find the location of the brewery and maybe a few beer names. A quick search revealed a much more complex and fascinating tale of one of the largest employers in Macon at the turn of the twentieth century; a brewery with production numbers that rivaled any brewery in the Southeast. The most striking fact to me: “craft brewing” existed in Macon, GA in the late 1800’s. Not only did it exist, it excelled. At this point, we decided to call in a few historians, colleagues and authors of Macon: Images of America, (available online and at the Golden Bough bookstore), Matt Jennings and Stephen Taylor, to join our efforts. Collectively, we have all gone head first down the rabbit hole trying to learn more about this once wildly successful, long defunct and nearly forgotten piece of brewing history that is not only significant to Macon, but an important piece of the consistently eclectic and eccentric history of the South.

Why this matters? From our hometown Macon Beer Company and Peach State Ale Trail, to the dozens of breweries that have sprouted up all over Georgia in recent years, one might be inclined to think that Georgia beer lovers never had it so good. This may be true, but this isn’t the first time beer was a celebrated part of our culture. The deep roots of beer making in Middle Georgia is yet another facet of our community’s history that begs to be explored, discussed and celebrated. Did someone in your family work for Macon or Acme brewing at some point? Have you discovered any Acme-related ephemera or documents in your attic, your backyard, or that closet upstairs where nobody goes? This may sound crazy, but a buddy of mine found a handful of Acme coins after his dog decided to dig up a portion of his back yard. After some quick research, we realized that these coins were given to Acme Brewing employees as a reward for a job well done. These coins could be redeemed for some delicious beer. Considering the success of the Acme Brewing Company, it’s not too far-fetched to hold out hope that someone out there has a journal stored in the drawer of an old desk or a surviving brew recipe tucked in the pages of an old book. Tuesday, February 10th at 7:30 pm Free event at Just Tap’d Please join the Acme Brewing Historical Society Facebook Group and come grab a pint with our research team and craft beer enthusiasts as we talk about history of brewing in Macon. If you are an owner of any breweriana, advertising, or historical artifacts from either the Macon Brewing Company or the Acme Brewing Company, we would love for you to bring them and share their stories and your interest with the group. Just Tap’d will be curating a display of items from the collections of the Acme Brewing Historical Society, the Peach State Ale Trail, and Chris Tsavatewa. Find Acme Brewing Historical Society on Facebook to learn more about this story and join our cause.

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UPDATE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NewTown Macon is partnering with downtown property owners to form a Community Improvement District for Downtown Macon. Community Improvement Districts (CID) apportion a percentage of a property owner’s property tax to exclusively improve the district.

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FEBRUARY AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE NIGHT Have you ever wondered about Downtown Macon’s African American history? Macon’s rich history is filled with successful African Americans and their triumphs. Take a free trolley tour of Downtown Macon’s African American history. The tour will highlight prominent African Americans from Macon and significant places. Tours start at Douglass Theatre, 355 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, and makes a stop at the Ruth Hartley Mosley Community Center, 626 Spring Street, for a reception and music, and ends at the Douglass Theatre. Following the tours the Douglass Theatre will be show Get on Up, a biographical film about singer James Brown. MARCH FIRST FRIDAY CONCERT APRIL EGGSTRAVAGANZA MAY UNLEASED: DOG FASHION SHOW JUNE MACON PRIDE JULY SUMMER LOVE AUGUST MACON DRAMA SEPTEMBER FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE: COMEDY NIGHT OCTOBER ONE CITY ART FESTIVAL

District improvements could include safety, streetscapes, sidewalks, lighting, planning, design and sanitation. Once the CID is created, a seven-person volunteer board, all of which must be district property owners, would administer the CID. The Macon-Bibb government appoints one board member and the district’s property owners elect the six other board members. Implementing a community improvement district is a tool that allows property owners to have direct control over property tax dollars and ensures this revenue is spent only in their district. Forming a Community Improvement District (CID) offers an opportunity to secure additional resources exclusively for downtown, but also promise to increase building values, occupancy, retail sales and rent rates to produce better cash flow and returns for owners and investors.

555 POPLAR STREET BUILDING 555 Poplar was formerly the home of Goodwill. The building was purchased by NewTown in November 2014 and will be renovated into 10 lofts and two live-work spaces. In conjunction with the building’s renovation, we are hosting a Developer’s Academy to teach real estate development, historic rehabilitation and redevelopment incentitives. The project and Academy will be complete in Fall 2015.

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“Cesare sent me to Italy for a month to live with his cousin, Walter. He owned two restaurants there. It was awesome!”

looking for a change. Cesare had just opened Tic Toc and his chef had been my chef at Sambuca. So they called me and I moved down here. I came down as the sous chef, but then Steve (Tic Toc’s original chef) left in September when I turned 21, and I took over as chef at Tic Toc. I was here for a couple of years. I helped open Luigi’s downtown and Luigi’s Northside. And then I moved to Pennsylvania for a year to work at a summer camp. The same chef Steve that worked here, was working there as a sous chef. After about 8 or 9 months, I got out of there and came back to Macon. Cesare had people running everything at the time, so I just went back to work and cooked for a while at Luigi’s and then Cesare sent me to Italy for a month to live with his cousin, Walter. He owned two restaurants there. It was awesome!

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MICHEAL WRIGHT Chef Michael Wright is the newest addition to Cesare Mammarella’s restaurant group. He was hired this past November as Executive Chef for all five of Cesare’s restaurants. He is overseeing food operations for Tic Toc Room, Ginger Stir Fry and Grill, Bearfoot Tavern, Yabu Sushi, and Brasserie Circa. Michael has gained a pretty impressive resume during his 20 years in the culinary scene. He has worked all over the world with some of the most revered chefs of our time. Michael has earned tons of accolades during his time as a chef, including Zagat’s best steakhouse and best overall restaurant in Palm Beach County, where he was chef at Chops Steakhouse. I sat down with Chef Michael at Tic Toc to learn more about his amazing career and his plans for Macon’s hottest restaurants. By: Brooke Williams Give us a little background information about you. Where are you originally from? How did you get your start in the culinary world? I grew up in Michigan, outside of Detroit, in a really small town. My parents had a produce business. We sold produce on the side of the road out of a wagon and we parked next door to a restaurant. My parents were really good friends with the owners, so as I got old enough, I started working at the restaurant. I did their flowerbeds, anything to make money when I was really young. When I was 13, I started washing dishes and when I was 14, I started cooking. I was a dishwasher, and then they started training me on the pizza oven doing pizza, ribs, 16 JANUARY 28- FEBRUARY 9, 2015

rotisserie chicken and I worked my way down the line. My junior and senior year of high school I went to vocational classes for half a day, so that was a culinary setting. I started doing competitions there and they had local chefs come in to judge the competition. I went to state and nationals my senior year and I took second place in nationals. They gave me a scholarship to The Art Institute. That scholarship got me to Atlanta. When did you first meet Cesare? I moved to Atlanta when I was 18 and I was going to school and working at Sambuca. And that’s how I met Cesare because he was managing there. I was there for almost three years and I was

How would you describe your style of cooking? It’s a mix. When I left here eight years ago, I went to Buckhead Life group in Atlanta and was a sous chef at Buckhead Diner. And part of going to Buckhead Life, besides the big company, was the chefs that I got to work for there. Joey Riley had been a chef at Buckhead Diner for about five years, and before that he worked for Tom Catherall, who is a certified master chef in Atlanta. Within Buckhead Life, they had “Pricci” with Chef Piero (Premoli) and “Vici” with Chef Jamie (Adams), and “Kyma” with Chef Pano (Karatassos). “Pricci” and “Vici” are Italian, one is modern and one is old world rustic. “Kyma” is Greek, “Atlanta Fish Market” is a huge seafood restaurant. I didn’t work directly in those restaurants, but it was a really close knit group. Any questions I had, I could go over to “Pricci” and say “Piero, I’m doing this...”, and we would work together. I learned about Thai food, Asian food, and comfort food. The options were limitless. You have to cook all sorts of stuff. I really just had this wealth of knowledge to pull from with these guys. There were four or five chefs in the company that were James Beard nominees and Chef Pano is one of the most respected chefs in the country. Overseeing 5 restaurants as an executive chef is a tough job. Do you find it challenging to constantly be creative and innovative with each menu? One of the really enticing things about this job for me is that I’m not at one restaurant. I can go to Tic Toc and do one style of food, like Southern steakhouse upscale. Then I can start doing some French influences at Brasserie Circa. And then we have Yabu and Ginger, which are Asian. So I’m able to utilize everything I’ve been doing for 8-10 years and do different styles and different cuisines. That’s really exciting

for me. Do you source any local produce? We will. I went to the Market here, the Mulberry Market, when I first got here. I met a bunch of people there. I’ll try to get some produce from them. There’s a co-op of farms in North Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee and we are going to be the only restaurant group in Macon that will have their product; beef, pork, and some poultry. So it’s regional, not so much local, but it’s definitely regional. Are you an adventurous eater? Are there any foods that you won’t eat or even try? I’ll eat pretty much anything. But I don’t know about these shows where they’re eating live insects and cockroaches. I don’t think I want to eat that. But I’ll eat livers, kidneys, brains, it doesn’t matter, I’ll eat anything. Tongue, beef tongue is delicious! I love sweetbreads! Those are the thymus glad. They’re interesting. It’s a different texture. What would you consider your go-to meal when you’re cooking at home for yourself and your family? Anything on the grill! I love to grill out. If I’m at home, I usually have some type of pork on the grill. I really try to stay out of the kitchen when I’m at home. I try to do everything on the grill. Vegetables, potatoes, however I can figure it out, it’s going on the grill. Do you have any holiday food traditions? We’re traditional. For Thanksgiving, we did turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn mash, green beans, stuffing. We had six different desserts. I did pretty much most of Thanksgiving this year. I was cooking all day.

What would be your best advice for home cooks that may want to recreate a dish they experienced at one of your restaurants? Don’t be scared. Try it. The worst thing that can happen is it’s not going to be good and next time you’ll know. Also, season in layers. Especially making soups and sauces. Say you’re doing something and you’ve got cumin and coriander going in it, instead of just throwing it all in there, you’re sauteing your meat and vegetable, put some of it in then, because it’s going to continue to cook with the meat and vegetable. It’s going to saute and get toasted a little bit. Then you add some later and it’s going to be two different flavor profiles from the same ingredient. Instead of just adding it all a the end or at the beginning, you’ll get layers of seasoning. I think that is the biggest mistake people make, is they under season.

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Thank You Lynn Farmer

Well here we are three weeks into 2015. The temperatures in Middle Georgia have ranged from the mid teens up to the high sixties; a movie production crew almost blew up downtown Macon and Elaine Lucas is still on the County Commission. 2015 has already seen two pop culture icons of the past pass away as the original Marlboro man, Darrell Winfield died on the 15th and Charlie Farquharson, aka Don Harron, who brought us all the news that is news from Kornfield County on Hee-Haw died two days later.

Three weeks into the new year most of us who made New Year’s Resolutions have been anything but resolute as once again the fitness industry sold millions of gym memberships and home fitness machines only to see the memberships sitting on the kitchen table in that pile of stuff you never throw away and the Nordic Track gaining its’ first layer of clothing being hung on them. Here we are three weeks into the New Year, as the old saying goes, eating the same soup from a different bowl. One thing that has changed locally that really has flown under the radar is the change at the Bibb County Board of Education with a new interim Superintendent being sworn in and the change of long serving BOE Board member Lynn Farmer with new member Daryl Morton. It’s a very good thing that we are not hearing about controversy every night anymore at the BOE brought to us by everyone’s favorite Haitian, Romain “I Took The Money and Got the Hell Back To Port-auPrince” Dallemand. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. A BOE is supposed to be non-controversial. One of the reasons that it is right now is thanks to former Board member Lynn Farmer. Farmer served three terms, the maximum allowed, as our county-wide representative in the at-large Post 7 spot during the most heated and contentious times the Bibb County Board of Education ever endured as the Board went from one defrocked leader in Sharon Patterson to another in the aforementioned Dallemand. People forget that Farmer was one of the few who stood up against not only Dallemand but also Patterson, when she and former Board Member and current County Commissioner Gary Bechtel filed an ethics complaint back in 2009 to the Professional Standards Commission against Patterson, then deputy-Superintendent Sylvia McGee and Assistant Superintendent Mack Bullard for failing to report educator conduct. Patterson would later be fired in 2010, being bought out of her contract for almost $200,000. Farmer, along with current BOE Member Sue Sipe, voted against the deal citing that it was too much money to give Pat-

terson. Later, as the Board searched for a new Superintendent, Farmer voted against the hiring of Romain Dallemand, which would be the first of many NO votes she would cast against the man who ended up costing Bibb County taxpayers countless millions of dollars as he spent money foolishly and many times illegally, as time and time again, Farmer, along with Sipe and Bechtel, did everything within her power to trump the cards that Dallemand kept dealing to the taxpayers like a Three Card Monte dealer, with the situation culminating in another huge buyout for a corrupt, inept and dishonest thug of a Superintendent. Many people questioned this buyout, but as history has now shown us, Farmer and the members who voted for it, ended up saving taxpayers millions more on what would have been an endless boondoggle of worthless programs, palatial buildings and high salaries for hand chosen, unqualified administrators had Dallemand been allowed to stay. I sincerely hope that 2015 does not mark the beginning of a political retirement for Lynn Farmer, though I do have to question how anyone that is a wife and mother, has a full-time position at the Macon-Bibb Chamber of Commerce, as well as Director of Leadership Macon AND is very active in animal rescue in her spare time, would even want to serve politically in any capacity, especially with all of the turmoil and garbage that went on during the three terms that she served on the Bibb County Board of Education. The taxpayers, the parents and especially the children of Bibb County owe Lynn Farmer a tremendous debt of gratitude, a heartfelt thank you and a prayer that she will return to public service in some capacity. Lynn and I don’t agree on everything, but I know that when she votes, she votes with an agenda that is mandated for her constituents and not for personal gain or to boost her likeability within the local clique. She has shown time and time again that she is a true public servant and has our best interests at heart. Bibb County can never thank her enough. 11thHourOnline.com 21

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Forward Together The seal of the newly consolidated Macon-Bibb County government depicts the existing frontier blockhouse at Fort Hawkins, the birthplace of our fair city and Middle Georgia region. Underneath that depiction on the seal, however, are inscribed the words “Forward Together,” and one of the truly significant accomplishments of the Macon-Bibb County Commission during its initial governing year has been the production and publication of a Vision , Mission and Strategic Priorities Statement clarifying exactly what those words “Forward Together” actually mean. Through a series of retreats and meetings last year, the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government assisted the Mayor and the Macon-Bibb County Commissioners in crafting a document, the text of which I now share here that merits our careful considerations as we continue to move “Forward Together” into this new year: VISION STATEMENT Macon-Bibb will be the center of development, culture, and opportunity, remembering our past while inspiring hope and pride for our future. MISSION STATEMENT Macon-Bibb County provides the essential infrastructure, services, and programs, creating a vibrant economic and cultural climate, enabling individuals, families, and businesses to prosper. “FORWARD TOGETHER” (Those major areas we will focus our time, energy and resources on to realize our vision.) Economic Development Our highest priority is to create a robust economy and strong communities. We will focus on retaining our current business and industry and creating opportunities for new economic development while addressing poverty and supporting and encouraging quality education and

workforce development. Safe Neighborhoods Safe neighborhoods are the foundation of great communities. We will focus our efforts on providing for public safety, citizen education and engagement and crime prevention, all in an effort to create safe and enduring communities. Effective Government Our County Commission and staff will work to improve public perception of the governance and government process and apply fair and equitable taxation principles and employee compensation and utilize best management practices to execute Commission policy towards completing SPLOST and all other projects successfully and in a timely manner. Infrastructure Improvement To achieve the community we desire we will focus on and develop storm water, water and wastewater infrastructures and an integrated transportation system of rails, trails, roads and runways to become the logistics hub of Georgia. Quality of Life We will support, encourage and promote good-living in Macon-Bibb with the arts and cultural events, tourism improvements, social and night life opportunities and a community-wide system of passive and active recreation. We in government know that we really can make all this happen, but we also recognize that local government just cannot do all this alone. The only way that we can, in fact, make this vision, mission and strategic priorities our collective reality is by moving one way and in one way only and that direction is “Forward Together.”

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Thou Shalt Not Kill By the time you read this, Andrew Brannan may have already been put to death by the Georgia Department of Corrections on January 13th. Brannan was sentenced to death by a Laurens County jury for the heinous murder on January 12, 1998 of Laurens County Deputy Sheriff Kyle Dinkheller, a 22-year-old father of one and husband to a pregnant wife. The facts of the case are that Deputy Dinkheller stopped Brannan for driving over the speed limit. Deputy Dinkheller was assaulted viciously by Brannan, who retrieved a shotgun from his truck after behaving erratically and disrespectfully toward the officer. Dinkheller was shot multiple times by Brannan. The entire horrific incident was captured by Deputy Dinkheller’s dashboard camera in his patrol car. Let me now state clearly that I believe that Andrew Brannan should never see the outside of prison walls for the remainder of his life for what he has done. Sadly, the root cause of this murder appears to be Brannan’s experience as a soldier in the Vietnam War. Brannan served as a first lieutenant and artillery forward observer in Vietnam and saw considerable combat and death. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his service, among other medals. After returning from Vietnam, Brannan was rated 100% disabled by the Department of Veterans Affairs and was found to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, paranoia, depression, and bipolar disorder. Brannan had not taken his prescribed medications for these conditions for five days before the date of Dinkheller’s murder. The jury that convicted Brannan never heard that he had been off of his meds before the crime. Clearly, our government would not allow someone with Brannan’s degree of mental illness to serve as an officer in combat, so it is obvious that Brannan’s exposure to combat violence is at the root of the illness that caused him to murder Deputy Dinkheller. After the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, we have learned much more about the effects of PTSD on soldiers returning from combat. Before Deputy Dinkheller’s murder, Brannan had no history of criminal activity, although he clearly had a history of mental illness. It is a scenario we have seen far too often in this country in the past several years. The mass shootings by deranged gunmen in Aurora, CO and Newtown, CT are two examples that stand out in my mind. We need to ask ourselves what it will accomplish for the state of Georgia to execute Brannan or any other person, for that matter?Many Christians use the Old Testament of the Bible to justify capital punishment. Jesus, in his teachings, is very clear that we should not repay violence with violence. He asks his followers to turn the other cheek, forgive your enemies, and not to murder another human being. It is not the role of man to judge, according to Jesus. Let those who are guilty of these awful crimes be imprisoned for life, for, if you believe in a loving and merciful God, as I do, then they should endure the remainder of their lives with the knowledge that they have taken the life/lives of others rather than being released from this misery. The United States is the only civilized country in the world that still uses capital punishment. Do we really want to be in the

ranks with China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen in terms of our criminal justice system? What are the pros for capital punishment? Many proponents of the death penalty argue that it is a deterrent to murder. This is false. If it were true, the south, which accounts for 80% of all executions, should have the lowest murder rate in the country. Instead, it has the highest murder rate. The northeast region has the lowest execution rate as well as the lowest murder rate. It also costs much more to impose the death penalty than to keep someone in prison for life. The most comprehensive study to date, which was done in North Carolina, found that it costs $2.16 million more to execute a prisoner there than to convict and incarcerate a person for life. This is due to the enormous cost for automatic appeals on both the state and federal levels. If you are financially conservative, this makes no sense. It is a waste of taxpayer money. There is also the issue of executing someone who has been wrongfully convicted. Despite having the best criminal justice system in the world in the U.S., mistakes are made. There have been 150 people who have been exonerated while on death row due to the emergence of new evidence, such as DNA or additional facts coming to light. Indigent defendants accused of capital crimes are not able to afford excellent legal representation. In fact, the last prisoner executed in Georgia, Robert Holsey’s, defense attorney admitted that he drank a quart of vodka a night during Holsey’s capital murder trial. Several facts about Holsey’s childhood that might have made a jury think twice about a death sentence were omitted by his lawyer. If the above facts are not enough to make you have second thoughts about capital punishment, consider the fact that a small army of real people have to carry out the death sentence. How can our government ask employees to take part in the taking of a person’s life? Three doctors and a registered nurse are required to take part in all executions in the state of GA. Doesn’t this violate the Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm? Six correctional officers are required to apply restraints to the prisoner before execution. Ironically, as part of the lawfully prescribed 36-hour “death watch” prior to all executions in GA, the condemned prisoner is not allowed to have any razors, belts, t-shirts, or other items that they might take their own lives with. In other words, the state will not allow them to kill themselves before it kills them. In the words of Bishop Robert Wright, of the Diocese of Atlanta, in an open-letter to Governor Nathan Deal, a fellow Christian, “I beg you to find courage in your faith, as a follower of Jesus, to end capital punishment in the state of Georgia immediately.”

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