One of something is enough. Redding as well as Allman and Oakley are represented also in the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. Our City Council is an embarrassment to Macon. We will never be the tourism boom town some hoped we would be. He was speaking in a literal sense.
Macon indeed is located in a large hole.
No matter what direction you come from, you go downhill to get to downtown. That alone makes Macon not too visible. In the article about Oakview and sub-south Bibb, you quoted Craig Chalkley as saying that three years ago there was no Kroger out there. I was a firing battery executive officer, which means that I was in charge of shooting the battery. We shot many fire missions in support of Navy Seals and Navy river patrol boats along the Kim Bo Bo Canal and the Dong Ngai River, as well as for the Army's 9th Infantry Division and the 199th Light Infantry Brigade.