The poet describes being from Talking Rock in the Cherokee Nation and the surrounding area. They reference mountains, counties, industries like cotton and wool, landmarks, and historical events like the forced removal of Cherokees. The poet discusses being from the mission school, stockade, grist mill, and cotton era of the early 1800s in Vanishing Georgia.

1. Talking Rock Where I’m From in GALILEO

2. I am from "Nunyu-gunwaniski," the rock that talks, the Talking Rock, from the Cherokee Nation and the weathered logs of an empty barn.

3. I am from mountains like centipedes, letters spelling Pickens across an orange county

4. I am from the marble,

5. the cotton ,

6. the wool,

7. and a cluster of roads

8. I am from the Ball Creek ballgames, brothers struggling for dominance, from Cherokee Sanderstown to Atherton mills,

9. I am from the Federal Road and the railroad,

10. From the forced removal

11. and the half-remaining chimney.

12. I am from millers and missionaries, hotel keepers and cavalry, Cherokee children and hardly anyone left

14. I'm from 1805, the mission school and the Newman stockade, grist for the mill to be made into bread

15. From the end of the war the end of an era, and the end of cotton.

16. I am from Vanishing Georgia, pictures of people and places,

17. Familiar names with long ago faces,

18. learning that history makes us.

20. Credits Project: Brilliant Teacher’s 6th Grade Class, Talking Rock School, 2010 All Resources Used Via GALILEO Britannica High School http://www.galileo.usg.edu/cgi/link?dbs=zehs Georgia Info http://www.galileo.usg.edu/cgi/link?dbs=gnfo Georgia’s Virtual Vault, State Archives, http://content.sos.state.ga.us/u?/gadeaths,148784 New Georgia Encyclopedia http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3235 Vanishing Georgia, multiple items http://www.galileo.usg.edu/cgi/link?dbs=vang