CORNELIA – Owing to a warm friendship with Jimmy Harris, the good-natured mayor of Nacoochee Bend, just outside Helen, I have for the longest time experienced some of the most refreshing sojourns into the northern half of our state.
For the record, Nacoochee Bend is not incorporated and the last thing on Jimmy’s mind would be to engage in politics. He is too loyal, too forthright, and too practical for the wheeling and dealing that seems to be standard with the political game.
However, shall we say, if he were elected to the statehouse, for example, he would prefer that his colleagues hold committee meetings with him as they flyfish one of Georgia’s numerous trout streams, drink Diet Coke instead of whiskey, if you are talking about the popular alcoholic beverages distilled in the U.