Once the family somehow made our way through the first day of the government-induced flight delays from Reno to Atlanta for an early Thanksgiving, I discovered how parts of Georgia’s past and present are not all that different from Nevada’s.

The past provides a link to the present, and the things we share in common, quite noticeably, are in places like cemeteries and taverns.

Noticeable in ways that Shakespeare wrote about in how “the past is prologue,” it sets the stage for many of the present and future things that play out for us as a people. Nowhere was it more evident than when we visited Georgia’s ancient (at least by American standards) Oakland Cemetery, and Manuel’s Tavern, Atlanta’s most storied political bar.

Similar historical touchstones are to be found to a smaller degree n

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