{"641758":{"#nid":"641758","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Our Southern Eden: A Centennial History of Lake Burton and the Upper Tallulah Basin","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENow a hub\u0026nbsp;of outdoor recreation and a popular vacation spot, Lake Burton was formed 100 years ago when engineers \u0026mdash;many of whom were Tech alumni\u0026mdash;built a dam during the great dam-building frenzy in North Georgia to electrify Atlanta. In Our Southern Eden, Dr. Michael E. Maffett, Bio 68, unearths the deep history of Lake Burton and the Upper Tallulah Basin.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35185","created_gmt":"2020-12-01 17:09:51","changed_gmt":"2020-12-01 17:09:51","author":"kpietkiewicz3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Tami Phillips","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.gtalumni.org\/s\/1481\/alumni\/17\/magazine-pages.aspx?sid=1481\u0026gid=21\u0026pgid=20233\u0026cid=44763\u0026ecid=44763\u0026crid=0\u0026calpgid=10717\u0026calcid=23031","dateline":{"date":"2020-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1683","name":"history"},{"id":"186351","name":"Lake Burton"},{"id":"186352","name":"Upper Tallulah Basin"},{"id":"672","name":"engineers"},{"id":"144831","name":"dam"},{"id":"186353","name":"dam-building"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}