Georgie Walking Dead Game
Leeroy Grier
Set in an alternate reality, a rural Georgia cop wakes up in the hospital in Atlanta only to discover that the world he knows has ended. He soon faces his first "walkers," or the dead reanimated, and goes in search of his wife and son. His gang of survivors face not only the undead, but also the living groups of other humans out to take them down. "The Walking Dead" is the most-watched television series in basic cable history, based on the graphic novels by the same name, and has filmed exclusively in Georgia. It put locations in Atlanta, nearby Senoia and beyond on the map for fans of the show.
Georgia Tour Company offers two-hour walking tours of Senoia, visiting locations used in "The Walking Dead," "Fried Green Tomatoes," "Pet Sematary II," "Drop Dead Diva" and more. They point out the base camp used for filming of "The Walking Dead" and test visitor knowledge. You have your choice of three different themed tours, all of which leave from Senoia.
This distinctive building overlooking I-75 just south of I-285 in Atlanta played the role of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in episode five of the show's first season. In real life, the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, located just minutes from The Battery Atlanta, is a premier venue for Broadway shows, concerts, opera, ballet and more.
Meriwether County has joined the geocache trend, an activity for all ages that resembles a good, old-fashioned treasure hunt. But what makes the Woodbury Zombie Geocache different is the zombies wandering around as you search for body parts and weapons in 12 caches to fill your passport. Your quest even includes a visit to one of the filming locations: the radar station where some of the Saviors lived. The name is a nod to the fictional town used in "The Walking Dead" as well as the real-life town of the same name located in west central Georgia.
This is the continuation of an interview with Anne and George Wilson, Sr. on March 7, 1995 by Bill Schneider and Don Callaway in the Wilson's home in Igiugig, Alaska. In this second part of three part interview, Anne and George talk about their seasonal round of subsistence activities. George also talks about being a commercial fisherman, using a snowmachine and All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) for trapping and hunting, and how subsistence has changed in the region with land use restrictions, increased air traffic, and expansion of sport fishing and hunting lodges. Anne talks about running the household and raising the children while George was away for long periods on the trapline. Anne and George also discuss the importance of sharing food, following traditional rules, and respecting elders.
Bill: Okay, so you'd come back and get the moose in the freezer, and then what would be the next part of that yearly cycle, when you first got married? George: Ah, like after you get your moose in the freezer, well you, you've got your fish. And sometimes we put the salmon and birds in the freezer, the ones that we don't get in the winter time, like in the fall season. Ducks and geese, ready to leave south, we go get some birds for the freezer, too. The birds we don't get in the winter time, we get 'em in the fall. Bill: Which ones are those? George: Like the mallards and the pintails and the geese. We kill ducks, and stuff like that, that leave in the fall of the year, we get a few of them and put em in the freezer. That way we have a variety of meat during the winter. Bill: OK George: It was amazing, you know, from living from day to day and had to go out and hunt, you know and get food for the table all the time, different. Like fishing and hunting, just out from day to day.
Bill: And then, when would the trapping season start for you. George: In November 10 the mink would open. Mink and otter and fox, wolverine, wolf and lynx. And it would go all the way through the winter 'til beaver season opened. And then February you started beaver trapping. That's how we went through the winters, just from one trapping season to another. And get enough for, might be kids need something for schooling, or clothing, and other things we needed. Travel, new outboard motor, or just to pay the light bill or, now a phone bill. And it all comes from our seasonal work like fishing and trapping. And that's the only livelihood I got is a fisherman and a trapper. Bill: Yeah. And then in the summer, what would you be doing? George: Fishing. Bill: Commercial? George: Commercial fishing, yeah. Bill: Tell us about that. When you started commercial fishing and who you started with. George: Well, I started with Andy Woods in '49, and then 1950 I went with my dad for about eight years. And then I started, myself, when, just before I got married in '58, I started fishing. And I've been a fisherman since 1950 originally. I only fished about four days, I think, with Andy Woods in '49. Four or five days. And after that I fished every year. With my dad. 'Til '58, then I started on my own. And that's when I raised, start raisin' my family. I was out on my own.
Bill: Tell us about that, how you got started on your own. George: Well, I just decided I knew enough and wasn't afraid to go out in life and start making my own living. And building a home and family. Felt good to be on your own, instead of depending on your folks. And staying, you know, out by yourself and doing the things like your folks taught you how and raised you. Bill: Did you buy a boat in '58, or how did you do that? George: No, I used a company boat, Nakeen there. I fished for, I don't know, five years in a company boat. Then I bought a boat from Nakeen there. I think it was in '67. My first boat I owned. Fishing boat, commercial fishing boat. And I fished that until '79, I think. And then I bought a new fiberglass boat and I still got it. Wagley, 1980 Wagley. And I really like it, compared to the old wooden boat. You had to take care of every fall and then the spring time, when it comes to putting it in the water, you had to cork it, scrape it and cork it, then repaint it. And quite a bit of difference from a fiberglass or aluminum boat and the old wood boat. And then you had to take care of your nets, hang net and get ready for your fishing season.
Bill: Back then in '58 when you started with the company. How did they work, how did the companies decide? George: Well, I went to Nakeen and I asked the superintendant if I could fish for them and if I could have a boat. And he knew my dad and my brothers. And he, "Well, I'll give you a try," he said. "I'll give you a boat, see how it turned out." And I fished Nakeen until they sold out to Peterson Point there in, I think in '69. And I fished two years for Peterson Point and then I went to Nelbrow in '71, I think. And I been with Nelbrow... Bill: Ever since. George: Uh huh. I fished one year at Alaska Packers, that's how I used to work in the spring and the fall down there at Dimond J, pulling the scows and the boat and put 'em back in the water in the spring time. For 'em about, oh, from '64, I think and then 'til 1972, I think. I quit Dimond J there and been just taking care of fishing and trapping, getting ready for trapping, since then. I never went back to work labor in canneries. I just commercial fished and trapped all my life. Bill: Did you do some labor work in the canneries before? George: Yeah. Bill: When you were young? George: Started with ?Hermie there when I was I think 16 years old, started working labor. When everything used to be hauled by these barges, and they're still hauling it by barges now, but mostly it was hand. Everything was by, moving boxes by hand and one at a time, not this cribbed loads and forklift there. It was, you unloaded the whole scow by hand, transferring it. Same way with oil, when they haul oil, they have fifty gallon barrels of oil. And that's how you unloaded it. By hand. Bill: When you got your boat from the company there and they gave you a try, did, how did you get a crew, who did you pick for your crew? George: Oh, I had a, I think the first year I started out I fished by myself. And I fished for I think two years then I got one of my nephews to fish with me. And then my brother-in-law and then, yeah, a couple of my brother-in-laws, and Anne's brother fished for quite a few years with me. And he's still fishing with me, off and on, been fishing with me since '69. He fished last year with me. He's gonna fish with me again this year. So he's been fishing since '69 with me.
Bill: In the old days, how soon did you have to get ready. Like back then in '58. When would people start going down to the bay and start working on the boats and getting 'em ready? George: Oh, about the end of April, first of May. They'd take a crew in toward the end of April there to hook up all the pipes and get things ready. And the bunkhouses and the cooking shacks and everything, you know, and then gradually more and more people would come in. And they'd start hanging nets, getting the boats ready, painted, scraped, corked, and new planks changed. And getting the engines ready to, and it'd take a little bit over a month, I guess, to get them all, month and a half, sometimes two months. Depends on the temperature in the spring, there. You had to watch. When they hook up the pipes and put water in, you know, you had to make sure the temperature was warm enough so they wouldn't freeze. So it would depend on the spring climate, you know, how early they would start. And if there was nice and warm they'd start up early, but if they had a lot of snow, they'd wait until it would warm up a little bit. And that's how the canneries started getting ready for the summer. That's how we made our living, is going down, getting an early start and getting hired on. So we'd make a few extra dollars beside just fishing. And that's how I learned to raise a family.
Bill: People that will be listening to this who aren't from this area, maybe from New York City or wherever. Let's just take a minute and describe what it took to run a commercial fishing boat in the early years down in the bay. Give people a sense of that part of life. George: Well it was a lot of work and most of us were, you know, born and raised into it. And we watch our folks do it, our dad teach us how to operate a boat and how to handle a boat. And make sure you didn't overload the boat when you, the weather start to get bad out there. So a boat only could hold so many fish and if you get greedy, a lot of people do that, you know, and they put too much weight in the boat and start taking on water. And you have to head for port before you, it gets too bad. So your judgement of how you took care of your loads and travelling out there was what you learned from either your dad or an elder that you fished with. So we were born and raised on the bay out there, every year fishing. And sometimes it was pretty hard not to put the net out the second time and put more weight in the boat. But you had to think twice before you wanted to make it into deliver a load of fish or a swamped boat. It was quite an experience in how to handle a boat out there in the weather and how much to put in it. So you learned that gradually from growing up with the elder that knew how to do it. Bill: Who were some of the people you remember that taught you a lot? George: Well, my dad I fished with for eight years. And that's what taught me how to fish and load the boat and how to handle it. I was the youngest one, on the boys, so I was the last one he had in the boat. And when I quit fishing with him, my next older brother, Willie, he went back fishing with Dad. Yeah he went a couple of years in the service, then so when he got out of the service he went back fishing with Dad again. That's how it turned out.
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