LETTERS TO AAMNE

About the Book

Edmund A. Brannen, M.D., was a boy in the 1920’s in the small east Georgia town of Millen. Sometimes hilarious and not always “politically correct,” his remembrances recall a simpler and more innocent time. From the burning of the outhouse to Charles Lindbergh’s flight over the local hospital, scenes of small-town Southern life are recounted in loving and humorous detail. Written as letters to his beloved granddaughter, Aamne Dianne Shalabi, these recollections are by turns witty, irreverent, and reflective, the themes both historical and timeless.

About the Author

Edmund Alexander Brannen, MD, practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Macon, Georgia for 40 years before retiring in 1986, having served as Chief of Ob-Gyn at the Macon Hospital and having delivered over 5,500 babies. As the reader will see from these memoirs, he relished life, its humorous and tragic turns, and the positive and idiosyncratic qualities of both friends and family. His childhood escapades along the rural roads and in the woods and ponds of southeast Georgia produced an adult who never lost his love of the outdoors, and anything that would take him there. High school valedictorian and football team captain, editor of the Emory University newspaper, and swing band saxophonist, he became the first medical student to be elected president of the Emory student body. Edmund Brannen, hunter, fisherman, golfer, music lover, obstetrician and former little boy, passed away in August of 2002 at the age of 84, leaving his wife of 62 years, two daughters, a sister and, of course, his beloved granddaughter Aamne.