This from the heart of a lifelong Georgia boy, raised in a small town in the east central piedmont region, longing to say something that will give you pause enough to actually designate a day to stop what you're doing and look around, and discover the treasures we have around us hidden in plain sight. Covington was once such a small, bucolic town. Life moved at a slower pace, for the hustle and bustle of world economics had not yet discovered Atlanta.