Byron Ashley Parker papers, 1986-2001.

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Byron Ashley Parker papers, 1986-2001.

The collection consists of correspondence between Byron Ashley Parker and Bettie M. Sellers, two complete volumes of poems and stories written by Byron Parker, photographs of Parker with family and friends, and miscellaneous documents from Parker's legal appeal and memorial services.

0.5 linear feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7553640

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Sellers, Bettie M.

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"Bettie Sellers lives and writes poetry in Young Harris, a small college town in the mountains of north Georgia. She is best known for her poems about life in southern Appalachia. Although Sellers was reared in the Piedmont region, near Griffin, her grandmother grew up in north Georgia's Nacoochee Valley. This heritage stimulated Sellers's interest in Appalachia. After earning a B.A. from LaGrange College in 1958 and an M.A. from the University of Georgia in 1966, she accepted a position as prof...

Parker, Byron Ashley, d. 2001.

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Byron Ashley Parker was sentenced to death for the malice murder of Christy Ann Griffith in Douglas County on or about June 1, 1984. He was excecuted by lethal injection on December 11, 2001. Bettie M. Sellers is a noteworthy author, poet and literary advocate. A native of Griffin, Georgia, she taught in the English Department of Young Harris College from 1965 to 1996. Sellers was named Georgia Author of the Year in 1979 by the Dixie Council of Authors and Journalists. S...

Parker, Byron Ashley, . 2001

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