Author: Frank Humphrey

Who wore it better: Doc Holliday or Little Richard? When John Henry “Doc” Holliday left his home town of Griffin, Georgia, in 1873, little did he know that, while he would be participating in probably the most famous gunfight in history, the Allman Brothers would be singing about a stretch of highway that connects his birthplace with that of Richard Wayne “Little Richard” Penniman, the Founding Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll—Macon, Georgia, to be exact. Or, that many years later, Hollywood would arrive in both locales in search of backdrops for films depicting the decline and fall of middle...