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 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...
by D.G. Martin | Feb 4, 2024 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Jill McCorkle Does it Again Jill McCorkle takes ordinary people, puts them in common situations, and makes extraordinary stories. She has done it again in her latest collection of short stories, “Old Crimes and Other Stories.” Several stories deal...
by D.G. Martin | Jan 28, 2024 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS A Diner in New York and North Carolina Roadside Eateries What does Old John’s, a diner on the Upper West Side of New York City, have to do with North Carolina? An article titled “The Best Diners Are Still Just Diners” in the January 7 edition of The...
by D.G. Martin | Jan 14, 2024 | Local, News, One on One, Top Left Box
Search for: NEWS Have the Ukrainians Already Won? Arguably, the Ukrainians have already won their country’s battle with Putin’s Russia—if we don’t make them give up that victory. It is a complicated situation, of course. Russian troops are still holding on to...
by D.G. Martin | Jan 9, 2024 | Local, News, One on One
Search for: NEWS Haley, Christie, and Lincoln on the Causes of the Civil War “What was the cause of the United States Civil War?” Asked this question by an audience member at a presidential candidate town hall in New Hampshire on Wednesday, December 27, Nicki Haley,...
