The memories from one year spent in Columbus three decades ago, paired with reading Allen Levi’s bestselling novel “Theo of Golden,” spurred a Florida woman to return to the Chattahoochee Valley in search of any and all connections between the book and Columbus.
Linda Brandt, whose husband was stationed at Fort Benning in 1996, and three friends arrived in Columbus on Memorial Day to learn more about — and to experience — the real-life places that influenced “Theo of Golden.”
The four women, members of a book club, dubbed themselves “THEO-logians.” They have the hats to prove it.
Brandt said the book brought back a flood of memories, including her many bicycle rides from the former Infantry Museum at Fort Benning and along the Chattahoochee Riverwalk. A search through pictures uncovered one with a map of the Riverwalk and Oxbow Meadows…