and former Times-Union columnist Vic Smith, who wrote under the pseudonym Poke McHenry. Chester Nimitz, author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard B. The old photographs and other memorabilia give each room a distinct decor certain to generate interest and inspire guests to return and stay in other rooms.īrandon said she and her husband researched old hotel ledgers to name rooms after former guests such as Adm. Talmadge is just one of the recognizable names of former guests. "Some people could be offended by his politics, but he was part of Georgia history," she said. The disclaimer says the owners have not now or ever endorsed Talmadge's politics, said Gaila Brandon, who owns the hotel with her husband, Jerry Brandon. The 18 rooms at the hotel, which is undergoing a major renovation that is nearly complete, have been named after notable guests who have stayed there since it opened in 1916. MARYS - Guests staying at the Riverview Hotel will see a disclaimer if they stay in a room dedicated to former Gov.
You can watch Talk to Tom anytime on News 6+.ST. Hear more about Treanor’s travels, his battle and victory over alcohol abuse, and more on Talk to Tom. And what happened was I went on a trip with our church group to Israel and discovered I like traveling.” Because I was afraid, I’d be forgotten, or I wouldn’t know what to do with myself. I thought, ‘As long as I’m working, I’m important or I am somebody, I have an identity.’ And I didn’t know how not to work. If you ask a man about himself, he’ll start talking about his job. “If you ask a lady to tell you about herself, quite often she’ll tell you about her children. I’ve talked to some people about this before,” he said. Treanor said retirement was a big transition. Treanor worked at News 6 until he retired for the last time in 2019. After Treanor stopped working at another news station in Orlando he asked Sorrells if he could get him a job at News 6. “I called you and left you a message, you called me back, we met for barbecue and we talked for six hours, maybe three,” Sorrells said. So, after seeing a story about him in the newspaper he got his phone number through mutual acquaintances. Shortly after moving to Central Florida, Sorells said people always asked him if he knew Treanor, but he didn’t because he was working at a competing station. Sorrells said he knew he loved Treanor the first time he met him. Sorrells also became part of that community after joining News 6 in 2000. He said soon after getting here Hurricane David hit and his coverage of the storm helped him to gain the community’s trust. Treanor brought that relatability to the sunshine state in the late 1970′s. He said he would lean on the information from experts at the NWS and present that information to the community in a relatable way. He said he would get his weather information from a teletype machine, but quickly made friends with people at the National Weather Service. At that time Treanor said, “Television was in its infancy”.
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