Garfield, Elberton book shares small-town memories

Garfield and Elberton: Homegrown Memories, is now in print to mark the end of a project which started in the late 1990s.

The 175-plus page, soft-cover, book incorporates local memories with area history and photos.

Author Sally Elder began the book in the late 1990s by focusing on her own collection of Garfield and Elberton tales. During her research at area libraries and historical societies she discovered the number of written items on the two towns is limited.

“There is so much local history out there, but none of it is written down,”Eler noted.

Much of her research involved contacting loca...