Midstate Magazine is an annual publication of Macon Magazine aimed at giving newcomers to our area a snapshot of what they have to look forward to moving here.
While stereotypes might indicate we’re all about hunting and fishing, we want you to know there’s a lot more to the Midstate than the great outdoors. There is [...]
Some Southern cliches are true. Rest assured that bathtub moonshine and copper spittoons have long ago been put to rest. Yet, here in the Midstate area, children catch lightning bugs in Mason jars at dusk, peach cobblers cool on oven racks and neighbors trade community news in the stands at high school football games. While [...]
If you grow up in the South, it doesn’t take long to figure out any town worth its weight in arts and crafts has at least one festival. And Georgia has some humdingers. On the odd side, there are the Fire Ant Festival in Ashburn, Mule Day in Calvary and the Shrimp and Grits Festival [...]
When the lights dim, whether it is the small lights of the community theater stage or the great bulbs of the Grand Opera House, the audience members collectively hold their breath waiting for the curtain to rise. No matter the venue, the Midstate delivers such high quality arts and entertainment, you may forget you’re not [...]
Shana Brown, a second-grade teacher at Bleckley County Primary School, just had a Smart Board installed in her classroom. The new technology allows her to control computer applications directly from the Smart Board’s touch-sensitive projected image. Thanks to residents of Bleckley who approved a Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, the county now has enough [...]
From neonatal intensive care and cardiac rehabilitation right down to Scooby-Doo Band-Aids, the Midstate area not only has outstanding health care and modern facilities, but home-grown community care. In fact, Bibb, Bleckley and Pulaski counties have nearly twice the state average of beds per 1,000 people. When it comes to practicing physicians, Bibb County has [...]
Escape from hot, black asphalt and chemical exhaust fumes. Escape to the Midstate’s cool green golf courses, glassy lakes and winding hiking trails. In Jones County nearly one-fourth of the land is federally protected, ensuring that its 35,000 acres will never be bulldozed or paved over. Middle Georgia’s long seasons, gentle landscape and indigenous wildlife [...]
Bibb is a county of firsts. Throughout its long history, ...
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Midstate Magazine is an annual publication of Macon Magazine aimed ...
Some Southern cliches are true. Rest assured that bathtub moonshine ...
Quent Floyd Principal, Bleckley County Primary School Shana Brown Second-grade teacher, Bleckley County ...
