by D.G. Martin | Mar 12, 2024 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Mighty Mecklenburg “Why do you Mecklenburgers always act so high and mighty?” I still get this question every now and then even though I moved away years ago. Last week I remembered the best answer to that question. On March 4, in downtown Charlotte,...
by D.G. Martin | Mar 4, 2024 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS The Claiborne Brothers of Charlotte—Jack and Slug When I lived in Charlotte during the final days of the last century, two of the most important people there had the last name of Claiborne. Jack Claiborne wrote charming and provocative columns and...
by D.G. Martin | Feb 25, 2024 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Lefty Driesell in His Own Words Coach Lefty Driesell died on February 17. He coached successful basketball teams at Davidson, Maryland, James Madison, and Georgia State. I wanted to honor him now, but I have written so many columns about him, I...
by D.G. Martin | Feb 18, 2024 | Local, News, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Blowing Rock and Korea in 1950 Count on Ron Rash to use his stories to take his readers on a trip back in time, usually to some place in North Carolina, as he did most famously in his novel “Serena” when he took us to the North Carolina forested...
by D.G. Martin | Feb 12, 2024 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Losing Great Poets Fred Chappell, former North Carolina Poet Laureate and longtime professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. died on January 4 at age 87. To celebrate his contributions, I have revised a column I wrote in 2009 about...
