Book review: Weird, Wacky, Wild Georgia Trivia

Weird Georgia TriviaSometimes truth is stranger than fiction as you’ll discover in an updated version of Weird, Wacky, Wild Georgia Trivia by authors Stephanie Watson and Lisa Wojna published by Blue Bike Books.
The town of Gainesville, Georgia claims the title “Chicken Capital of the World” and holds the International Poultry Trade show each year. Wesleyan College in Macon was the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women. The Heisman Trophy, college football’s top honor, was named after John Heisman who became coach of the Georgia Tech football team in 1904; he was also the first college football coach to get paid for coaching. Elbert County Georgia is home to “America’s Stonehenge”– six granite slabs about 19 feet tall perched on a hillside—it’s still a mystery who put them there. America’s first real gold rush was not in California but twenty years earlier in Georgia. In 1828 gold was discovered in Habersham County where thousands came to seek their fortunes. The town of Dahlonega keeps the history of the Georgia gold rush alive with a museum and mine tours. Country singer Trisha Yearwood hails from Monticello, Georgia. Rocker Elton John splits his time between his homes in England and Atlanta.