
10/10/2025
The front entrance to New Hope Baptist Church, Lincolnton, Georgia. By Tom Poland, A Southern WriterTomPoland.net For the first time in my life I was alone in my church. The old Regulator wall clock ticked away as I ticked away the families who had walked through their last door. Ivys, Williams, Wells, Partridges, Flemings, Bradfords, Guillebeau, Hawes, Ashmore, others still, and my family, who always sat in the third pew on the right from the back....
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The front entrance to New Hope Baptist Church, Lincolnton, Georgia. By Tom Poland, A Southern WriterTomPoland.net For the first time in my life I was alone in my church. The old Regulator wall cloc…