Matthew Tully, Joanna Richardson and Will Murdock enjoy the new snow in front of the only downtown cotton patch on Main Street in the nation or the world. Colquitt is known for a lot of things, but to have the ground covered in snow with enough to make snowballs and a snowman is not one of them.

Friday was a day to remember as the very large snow flakes fell for a few hours after rain and sleet covered the area.

"Let me go out and see the snow," Uva Mason, 96, said while working at the Miller County Liberal. "This might be the last time I see snow."

Folks in Southwest Georgia don't drive too well with ice and snow covering the roads.

It didn't stick in Colquitt as much as it did just above us. There were several accidents in counties just to our north due to the snow that turned to ice on the roads.

The state highway department was putting out salt on the paved roads to make the highways safer.

It was a winter wonderland for a short time. Cars were a good place for the young and old to make quick snowballs to have snowball fights around town.

There is an old book by Judge Arthur Gray Powell, I Can Go Home Again, that says: “It was twenty miles from Blakely to Fort Gaines; fifteen to Arlington; twenty-seven to Morgan; thirty to Cuthbert; fourteen to Columbia, Alabama; sixteen to Cedar Springs; forty to Bainbridge; and twenty to Colquitt.” Sam Morton of Colquitt who had a column in the Early County News, once wrote that Colquitt was twenty miles from Blakely; twenty miles from Bainbridge; twenty miles from Newton; twenty miles from Arlington; and twenty miles from Cedar Springs, and was estimated by some to be twenty miles from Hell, but he considered that an over-estimate.

That may be the reason that ice and snow don't cover our area too long.

Some think that Colquitt just might be near to where the Garden of Eden was when things got started. It didn't snow there too much either.

With some of the latest happenings at the Fun House and the Courthouse, the judge may have been right. The cooling down may help. Arrests will help more.

Most of the young and old enjoyed the snow, especially since it didn't last too long and happens here about every 30 or 40 years.