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The Last Say is a humorous, tangled journey of poetry and prose guided by author, Hans Broder’s reflections of his unusual life. From cheeky limericks to capturing the memories of departed family members, his passion for rhyme touches every element of this book. Looking back to memorable events, including the Henry County Library Roast, which spotlighted his banking years, uncovers much more than he or the audience could have imagined. Hans has enjoyed writing throughout his life, though it occurred in his later years, when his creativity found its true voice. Stretching his pen in a writing class led to the four larger literary works that proceed the The Last Say, including May All of You and God Forgive Me and The Mystery Passenger. Between these pages, reveal the unique pieces of Broder’s exploration in the world of words. However, it is ‘joy’ that he finds the utmost in writing.
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Forrest Turner was a law breaker and a “jailbreaker.” Many said he was the most famous prison escape artist of the twentieth century and that only Houdini got more publicity than him. During the 1930s and 1940s he escaped eleven times, only to be recaptured each time. Four of his escapes were from the newly constructed maximum-security facility in Reidsville. With each escape additional prison time was added to his sentence. It was not just his many escapes from prisons but the remarkable breaks into work camps and prisons to free other convicts which made him famous.
The rain pounded on the roof of the Old No. 7 train like the devil trying to get in, a warning of the dangers ahead. It had been raining for most of June saturating the landscape and overflowing the streams. Lightening lit up the night sky as the locomotive confidently pushed forward from the McDonough Station toward Atlanta. No one saw the need to inspect the tracks to see if the re-enforced trestle was intact. Then the unimaginable happened on the evening of June 23, 1900, when the trestle over Camp Creek collapsed. And the fate of forty-eight passengers and crew would be changed forever.
Jerry Banks was arrested on December 11, 1974 for the murders of a high school band director and a pretty young college student. He was arraigned and bound over to the Grand Jury. They determined the evidence was sufficient for a jury trial. Although Banks was the one who alerted police to the murders and despite a lack of hard evidence, eyewitness or motive, he was found guilty and sentenced to die in the electric chair on March 28, 1975—just 107 days after his arrest. His appeals ended the same way: guilty and death sentence. A miscarriage of justice eventually came to light due to a new team of hard-working young lawyers, but it was too late for Jerry to have his old life back.
“With all those eyes looking over the shoulders of Georgia banks how could so many of them fail?”
It had been a long wild ride…a party for many. As the builders, developers, real estate agents, and bankers were celebrating their successes, boasting about the money they had made, and anticipating the next “can’t miss” real estate deal, the party would come to an end, and the lights would go out. In the darkness there was much turmoil and confusion. In the days that followed, the party goers found themselves with financial hangovers and empty wallets. Everyone wondered how this could have happened?