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Also inside
12 Editor's letter
19 Faces
28 Nate's Dispatches from the
Middle Georgia Times
50 Melissa Macker knows why
Downtown Macon will
become a destination
80 Music Teachers Guide
86 Fitness: Intermittent
fasting for fall
88 Macon Chose Me:
Lesley and Nate Myrick
92 Interiors: Getting a
gallery wall
94 Cups and Water: To paint
the space between us
99 Announcements
100 Top 10 in the 478
102 Five Minutes with…
Under the Radar Artists
ON THE COVER "Even Walls Can Move" by Ilan
Averbuch, installed in the new Bicentennial Park,
represents how we can move past barriers that
divide us if we embrace unity. Photo by Mike Young.
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