Grant Blankenship

1 week ago | macon-newsroom.com | Grant Blankenship

By now, you probably know the road from immigrant to citizen can be long and arduous, regardless of what the first step on that road looked like for the person who eventually raises their hand to take the Oath of Allegiance to the United States. Wednesday in Macon, 22 people from 15 different countries stepped off that road and into the full rights of U.S. citizenship in a ceremony at the Bootle Federal Courthouse in Macon.

1 week ago | gpb.org | Grant Blankenship

By now, you probably know the road from immigrant to citizen can be long and arduous, regardless of what the first step on that road looked like for the person who eventually raises their hand to take the Oath of Allegiance to the United States. Wednesday in Macon, 22 people from 15 different countries stepped off that road and into the full rights of U.S. citizenship in a ceremony at the Bootle Federal Courthouse in Macon.

3 weeks ago | npr.org | Grant Blankenship

For twenty years, Rick Hubbard has been trying to put together the world's largest kazoo ensemble, as certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. On Friday, in Macon, Georgia she will need thousands to show up to break the current record.

1 month ago | macon-newsroom.com | Grant Blankenship

A new center for music education and performance named for the late soul great Otis Redding is now open. The Redding Foundation, run by the family of the singer who electrified audiences around the world before dying at age 26 in 1967, has for years taught young musicians and songwriters in their summer and afterschool programs. But those programs had no building of their own.

1 month ago | gpb.org | Grant Blankenship

A new center for music education and performance named for the late soul great Otis Redding is now open. The Redding Foundation, run by the family of the singer who electrified audiences around the world before dying at age 26 in 1967, has for years taught young musicians and songwriters in their summer and afterschool programs. But those programs had no building of their own.