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Not arrowheads, and older than you think
Collector traces artifacts of native Georgians over 10,000 years
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Bulloch County Historical Society members and guests inspect stone projectile points and other artifacts from guest speaker Joseph Sumners collection. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
In its last regular meeting of 2017, the Bulloch County Historical Society heard about the area’s Native American prehistory, and saw a collection of artifacts dating back thousands of years. Joseph C. Sumner Jr., a Mercer University-educated attorney from Wrightsville, also invests in timber land where preparations for planting pines turn up some of the artifacts. His collection includes some pottery fragments and other items, but hundreds of stone projectile points.
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Georgia Southern professor Dr. Larisa Elisha will offer free violin recital on Saturday
The Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music is presenting event 7:30 p.m. at Carol A. Carter Recital Hall
Larisa Elisha
The Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music will present a free Faculty Violin Recital, featuring Dr. Larisa Elisha, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3, in the Carol A. Carter Recital Hall. - photo by Georgia Southern University photo

The Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music will present a free Faculty Violin Recital, featuring internationally-acclaimed violinist Dr. Larisa Elisha and Dr. Cameron Fuhrman on piano, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3, in the Carol A. Carter Recital Hall on the Georgia Southern University campus. 

The program of violin-piano masterpieces includes Johannes Brahms’s Scherzo in C minor (from "F-A-E Sonata"), Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23, by Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108, by Johannes Brahms and Manuel Ponce’s Estrellita (“the little star”). 

Russian-American violinist, Dr. Elisha, is an internationally acclaimed soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. She has performed and taught extensively throughout Russia, Poland, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Denmark, Switzerland, Holland, Norway, Taiwan, Lithuania, Israel and the United States.

Currently, Dr. Elisha is Professor of Music and Coordinator of Upper String Studies at the Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music at Georgia Southern University, where she teaches violin, viola, chamber music, violin/viola Literature and method and pedagogy. 

Dr. Cameron Fuhrman is a pianist, teacher and musical academic. Born in rural Central Oregon, she began taking piano lessons at 5 and teaching them at 11. 

She has given solo, collaborative, and concerto performances across the United States and has received numerous awards for her teaching and research. 

She lives in Savannah with her husband, Jacob, who is Director of Music at the Independent Presbyterian Church, and their daughter, Clara. 


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