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Statesboro Magazine-September/October 2025

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GEORGIA SUNLIGHT IN A BOT TLE |

WE LIVE HERE

Georgia Sunlight in a Bottle WOODPECKER TR AIL OLIVE FARM W R I T T EN BY J E N N Y S TA R L I N G FO S S | P H OTO G R A P H Y BY F R A N K FO R T U N E

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WASN’ T IN TUSCANY OR PROVENCE . I WASN’ T STANDING ON A HILL SIDE IN CROATIA OR WANDERING THROUG H OLIVE G ROVES IN SPAIN. I WAS IN G LENNVILLE , G EORG IA

just off Highway 121—the historic Woodpecker Trail—and the scene was just as enchanting. As a shuttle cart hummed its way down a sandy lane between rows of silvery-green trees, I could hear the rustle of leaves in the breeze, see the flash of a redheaded woodpecker darting through the tall longleaf pines, and smell the warm Georgia earth beneath me. This wasn’t the Mediterranean, but it could have been.

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