ABSTRACT
Meanwhile, they were also collecting donations from people in the community to get up enough money to print the first issue. They collected $440. That little act of generosity on the part of those community people, by the way, has now grown into an operation in Rabun County that has an annual budget of $475,000 a year and encompasses a whole range of activities. At any rate, in the process of the kids going out into the community and collecting not only remedies and superstitions and money, they also ran into people like Sara Rickman who said, ‘You know, if you guys are going to put out a magazine about Rabun County, you really ought to have some of the good stuff from the county in there because that’s the only way it’s going to sell.’ She said ‘Like my father-in-law, for example, used to be the old sheriff in Rabun County. He was sheriff when the Bank of Clayton was robbed in 1936’, one of our big events. She said, ‘You ought to really put stories like that in there, too.’
