Newnan, Georgia

Ariel learned about Cotillion at school, from a friend whose grandmother had started the program, more than 20 years earlier. A six-week course, Cotillion teaches “etiquette and social…

While Suzanne and her husband were having a house built in Newnan, in 2002, they lived in an apartment about 13 miles away, in a town called Palmetto….

Zahraw and Aatika were born in Georgia and have spent their whole lives there. Their father, an engineer from Pakistan, emigrated to the United States in the 1980s,…

When Brittany saw the portrait we had made together, she winced. “I look so mean,” she said. We were standing in her office at the University of West…

Since arriving in Georgia, Carlos has been doing manual labor: cutting the grass in people’s yards, painting the woodwork in people’s homes, laying pipes in the road that…

To be Ms. Helen in 2019, or any one of her friends from the Howard Warner High School Class of ’54, is to carry the memory in every…

Once a thriving cotton-mill town, Grantville sits about ten miles south of Newnan at the southern edge of Coweta County. No industry replaced the cotton mill when it…

Mirra was about 15 when she came to the conclusion that if she wanted her life to be a success, she would have to leave Newnan. She’d been…

It was a sunny Saturday in April of 2018, and 700 law-enforcement officers in full riot gear were assembled in downtown Newnan. Members of the National Socialist Movement…

In the heart of downtown Newnan, near the municipal park and the Presbyterian Church, stands the Super Latino market. The shop serves as a center for the Hispanic…

On the day of the senior prom in Newnan, Georgia, it was hot – unseasonably hot, I was told, for the South. I had been running around all…

William cuts an almost mythic figure in Newnan: a courtly presence, spoken of by townspeople with a kind of reverence. The son of a mill owner, he grew…