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The Touch / Photograph by Sterling Brown

Photographer Sterling Brown’s work will be featured in an exhibit this weekend through Feb. 3, at Gallery on South Main in downtown Jasper.

Brown’s striking portraits, abstracts and landscapes are “a blend of tragic and austere beauty,” as the gallery owners describe them. “When Sterling captures any subject with his camera, he has the uncanny ability to see into its very core…”

His work has also have been featured at Van Gogh’s Hideaway. He has been a photographer for 15 years, trained in advertising photography but more recently using the medium for artistic interpretation.

Brown also works in commercial and events photography and personal portraits.

Reception is this Saturday, Jan. 28, from 5 to 8 pm, at 35 South Main Street, Jasper.

View more of Brown’s work online at http://skexus.zenfolio.com/.

Sharptop Arts Center hosted a “Mad Hatter’s Tea Party” – with hat decorating contest and food, too – on January 22. This annual event is a favorite way for Pickens art lovers to socialize and spend a January afternoon.

January 18, 1861

At Georgia’s secession convention, former state supreme court justice Eugenius Nisbet introduced a resolution calling for Georgia’s secession from the Union and cooperating with the other seceded states to form a “Southern Confederacy.” Nisbet also moved that a committee be appointed to draft articles of secession. Former governor Herschel Johnson offered a substitution resolution calling on southern states to send delegates to a congress to be held Feb. 16, 1861 in Atlanta to decide on a joint course of action. According to the substitute resolution, essential elements for Georgia remaining in the Union included: Congress taking no action to abolish or prohibit slavery in the territories, return of fugitive slaves, prosecution of anyone rescuing slaves, protection of slave property in the territories, admission of states as free or slave as determined by the residents of the state, and no blacks being allowed to hold federal office. Johnson’s resolution failed, and that of Nisbet adopted. Following the vote, Nisbet was named to chair the committee to draft a secession ordinance for Georgia.

January 18, 1888

Georgia-born Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

January 18, 1892

1892 Early film star Oliver Hardy — rotund straight-man of the comic duo of Laurel and Hardy — was born in Harlem, Ga. During his career, he would appear in almost 200 movies. Hardy died Aug. 7, 1957 in North Hollywood, Calif.

January 18, 1947

“Three Governors Affair” became a two-governors rivalry on this day when M.E. Thompson took the oath of office of lieutenant governor. At this point, outgoing governor Ellis Arnall, who still claimed the office and refused to recognize the General Assembly’s naming of write-in candidate Herman Talmadge, resigned as governor. With Arnall’s resignation, Thompson claimed that under the state constitution, he now became governor. Talmadge, however, insisted that the legislature constitutionally had elected him governor. The case ended up in the Georgia Supreme Court, which on March 19 ruled in Thompson’s favor.

January 18, 1989

Georgia-born rhythm-and-blues singer Otis Redding was one of five musicians and groups inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Suffering from  a sad case of the mid-winter doldrums? Let poetry put a surge back in your urge.

The  Georgia  Poetical Coopera­tive  is  staging  a  beguiling evening of alchemical poems and songs entitled It’s Magick! It will perform the show Tuesday evening, Jan. 17, starting at 7:30 pm.

The presentation will unfold at Appalachia restaurant on Steve Tate Highway just outside Big Canoe’s North Gate. There is no charge for admission, but come at 6:30 for dinner or drinks!

The inspiration for the show is the famous poem “My  Heart Leaps Up” written  by William Wordsworth  200  years  ago. Other poets who will be featured in the show range from Emily Dickinson, Edwin  Markham, T.S. Eliot, and William Butler Yeats to John Keats, Samuel Tay­lor Coleridge, Walter de Ia Mare and Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Contact Carl Japikse at 706-579-1274 or e-mail  him at carl@lightariel.com to reserve a seat.

Eric Reinhardt Opening

Click here Open Mic Night Photo Gallery for more images from the evening!

Sharptop Arts Association is hosting the inaugural Open Mic Night on Friday, January 13th.  Musicians, storytellers, poets, beat-boxers, and other performing artists are welcome.  Opening the evening will be local musician Eric Reinhardt.

Sign up for 10 minutes of stage time is at 6:30pm at Shartop Arts Association, located at 68 D.B. Carroll Street.  The evening begins at 7pm.  A $3 cover applies for this PG-13 event.

Due to the success of the Community Gospel Choir at the Downtown Jasper Christmas Celebration, the group would like to perform a concert of Spirituals in February.

The choir would rehearse twice in January 17 and 31 and twice in February 7 and 21 at 7pm. All rehearsal will take place at the Creative and Performing Arts Academy in Jasper, Georgia on GA-515 South (beside the Bargain Barn and Alfa Insurance). The performance is tentatively set for February 26, 2012 3pm at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church or Tate United Methodist Church. 

The Community Gospel Choir is looking for members from local choirs as well as individuals to join and make a joyful noise, and  celebrate a great part of American Music that is truly American, the Spiritual.  “We have the potential to make a difference in the community!”

For more information, contact Justin Davis at 706-936-6043 or email jjdavis212003@yahoo.com