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Tales of Macon
Jared Wright
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Jared Wright

Jared Wright came to Macon over a decade ago to attend Mercer University and has more or less stuck around since then. Since that time, he’s received a M.A. degree in history and has served as a historian, curator, archivist and writer for various musical organizations and museums, including the Otis Redding Foundation, the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, and the Tubman Museum. He’s also played in a variety of local bands over the years, and he’s considered the world’s foremost expert on Bob Dylan karaoke.

That Mythical Beast, the Bragg Jam Schedule

As I’ve intimated in this forum before, a meticulous, minute-by-minute plan for Bragg Jam is essentially worthless, but you do have to do some sort of planning or else you’ll be lost, doomed to wander through the whispered asides of history with the likes of Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa, and the Roanoke Colony…

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Bragg Jam with the Riggonians

Just across the street from the Macon-Bibb Convention and Visitors Bureau, I take a turn down an alley that splits Cherry and Poplar Streets to find myself at the foot of a small stream…

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