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Athens News Matters: Tales from the Garden - Crape Myrtle

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Dr. Allan Armitage is back in the garden to explain how centuries of periodic wars between Britain and France led to the misspelling of crape myrtle’s name.

Martin Matheny is WUGA's Program Director and a host and producer of our local news program 'Athens News Matters.' He started at WUGA in 2012 as a part-time classical music host and still hosts WUGA's longest-running local program 'Night Music' which is heard on WUGA and GPB Classical. He lives in Normaltown with his wife, Shaye and dog, Murphy.