Mighty Mecklenburg

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,...

Losing Great Poets

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...