Stories by Tony Bartelme

My latest story in The Post and Courier is called "BURN INC." It's about the famous burn center in Augusta, Georgia.  The Joseph M. Burn Center is known as the largest burn center in the nation. What's not known is how ambition and greed helped fuel its growth, even as its doctors did amazing things to help people heal. It's a complicated and sensitive subject. Thanks for reading. https://www.postandcourier.com/news/special_reports/joseph-m-still-burn-center-augusta-ga-fred-mullins/article_eb61fc22-7cb3-11ee-ae6e-57d369f6e8fd.html

 My latest from Senegal.   https://www.postandcourier.com/environment/lessons-of-senegal-what-an-old-city-in-west-africa-teaches-about-rising-waters/article_8e16beb6-ffba-11ed-afea-0f0af84984ee.html#tncms-source=latest_posts

  Saharan dust acts like a hurricane switch that turns them on and off. Read my latest in The Post and       Courier about how climate change may affect this switch.   The Saharan Connection: Will hurricanes hammer the East Coast? We traveled to the Sahara Desert to find answers. 1. Sun Deep in the Sahara Desert , the sun heats the sand, and the air above it rises. The rising air carries dust — orange dust from Mauritania and Mali, white dust from an ancient lake in Chad. Clouds of dust that soon flow into a jet stream moving westward across Africa, an ochre haze moving toward a place where our worst hurricanes are born.   Read more here

 Finding the Clotilda Here's my latest, a story about the infamous slave ship Clotilda. I traveled to Mobile, Alabama, this winter to better understand the facts and fictions around this important historical story. In The Post and Courier https://www.postandcourier.com/news/special_reports/inside-the-search-for-the-infamous-slave-ship-clotilda/article_80344be8-b3a1-11ed-a80d-0b4100dd527c.html