While visitors are blocked at nursing homes amid coronavirus, Georgia could have given families a way to keep tabs on loved ones through so-called “granny cam” legislation sponsored by Rep. Demetrius Douglas, D-Stockbridge. Douglas said House Bill 849, his legislation to allow cameras in nursing home rooms, has been blocked at the Capitol.

The city wants to help you build a new accessory dwelling unit or get an illegal one up to code, and they’re willing to help you pay for it.

An apple pie is a fruit pie in which the principal filling ingredient is apples. The earliest printed recipe is from England. Apple pie is often served with whipped cream, ice cream ("apple pie à la mode"), or cheddar cheese. It is generally double-crusted, with pastry both above and below the filling; the upper crust may be solid or latticed (woven of crosswise strips). The bottom crust may be baked separately ("blind") to prevent it from getting soggy. Deep-dish apple pie often has a top crust only. Tarte Tatin is baked with the crust on top, but served with it on the bottom. Apple pie is an unofficial symbol of the United States and one of its signature comfort foods. Ingredients Apple pie can be made with many different sorts of apples. The more popular cooking apples include Braeburn, Gala, Cortland, Bramley, Empire, Northern Spy, Granny Smith, and McIntosh. The fruit for the pie can be fresh, canned, or reconstituted from dried apples. Dried or preserved apples were originally substituted only at times when fresh fruit was unavailable. The basic ingredients of the filling are sugar...

A folk healer is an unlicensed person who practices the art of healing using traditional practices, herbal remedies and the power of suggestion. Depending on the culture, the healer may have received some type of training or even inherited some "gift" of healing from their parents. Granny women Granny women are purported to be healers and midwives in Southern Appalachia and the Ozarks, claimed by a few academics as practicing from the 1880s to the 1930s. They are theorized to be usually elder women in the community and may have been the only practitioners of health care in the poor rural areas of Southern Appalachia. They are often thought not to have expected or received payment, and were respected as authorities on herbal healing and childbirth. They are mentioned by John C. Campbell in The Southern Highlander and His Homeland: There is something magnificent in many of the older women with their stern theology – part mysticism, part fatalism – and their deep understanding of life. ..."Granny" – and one may be a grandmother young in the mountains – if she has...