by D.G. Martin | Apr 22, 2024 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS North Carolina’s Most Famous Person Who is North Carolina’s most famous person? If you go by who got featured in a front-page article last week in The New York Times, the answer is easy. Virginia Foxx. Who is Foxx? She is a U.S. Congressional...
by D.G. Martin | Apr 15, 2024 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS My Brother’s Mountain Cabin A few days ago, with my wife and family, I drove along I-77 up into Virginia and turned west on I-81 driving alongside large, luscious, spring green pastures towards historic Abingdon, home of the Barter Theater. From there...
by D.G. Martin | Mar 31, 2024 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Old Memories, New Challenges The news last week came as a surprise to me: “Gov. Cooper’s office announced on Thursday that Walter Gaskin, a retired three-star Marine Corps general who became secretary of the North Carolina Department of Military...
by D.G. Martin | Mar 25, 2024 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Telling it True in 1964 and Today “Tell It True” is a book that takes you back in time to 1964 during the election season in Georgia. Think Lester Maddox. The story opens as Jarvis Pendry, a Black World War II veteran and Army reserve lieutenant...
by D.G. Martin | Mar 18, 2024 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Why No Poole’s in “Roadside Eateries”? “I can’t find Poole’s in the revised edition of ‘North Carolina’s Roadside Eateries: A Traveler’s Guide to Local Restaurants, Diners, and Barbecue Joints,’ What happened?” It is the first complaint I have gotten...