Small Towns - July 19, 2013 Vignettes of small town life around Georgia A yurt at Cloudland Canyon State Park Visitors brave the chilly waters at Cave Spring’s Rolater Lake. The historic swimming pool is technically a lake since it is fed by the town’s namesake underground spring. Josiah Stephens takes off near Lookout Mountain Hand Gliding The walk-up window at Armstrong’s Barbecue in Summerville Claremont House B&B is among Rome’s Victorian beauties The cave in Cave Spring Marilyn Walker and Glenn Smithy sell tickets to the cave Claude T. Wiley’s general store in Social Circle More ephemera from Wiley’s store Milledgeville’s Central State Hospital, a historic psychiatric facility infamous for its mid-twentieth-century abuses Carl Sims Sr., U.S. Army Retired, practices patriotic songs Fresh fruit at the Ripe Thing in Greensboro The Fitzpatrick Hotel in Washington, built in 1899 and renovated and reopened in 2004 The SAM Shortline Tekoa Rogers, left, and Katheryn Mitchell, one of the owners, have lunch outside of Blakely Chicken A Milltown mural outside the former Stapleton Grocery depicts former Lakeland residents