by D.G. Martin | Nov 27, 2023 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Age and Experience, A Priceless Combination Can an 80-year-old person still lead and run important businesses? Duke University President Vincent Price recently reminded us of the continuing value of people such as Jim Goodnight. In the Nov. 24 edition...
by D.G. Martin | Nov 20, 2023 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Thanksgiving is My Favorite Holiday Why? One reason is that it is one of the very few days we have saved just for families and friends. We have done a better job of keeping the Thanksgiving holiday from getting away from us. It has not yet taken...
by D.G. Martin | Nov 6, 2023 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Myrick Howard to the Rescue He is a hero to thousands of North Carolinians who live near precious old buildings that, but for Myrick Howard, would have been destroyed. Because of Howard’s work, scores of old school buildings, historic homes,...
by D.G. Martin | Oct 30, 2023 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Memories from George Washington to the 22nd Century “No. I didn’t know George Washington. But I had a friend who knew him very well.” I remembered these words last week when I was visiting a group of distinguished people in Salisbury. All of us...
by D.G. Martin | Oct 23, 2023 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Boardinghouse Memories It would be hard today to find an old-fashioned boardinghouse to spend the night and eat a meal with the other boarders. Not impossible, but difficult, and yet less than a century ago boardinghouses covered the towns and cities...
by D.G. Martin | Oct 16, 2023 | Local, News, One on One, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Learning From SBF In the midst of a terrible war in Gaza, why would I be reading a book about Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)? That book is Michael Lewis’s “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a new Tycoon.” Coincidently, the book came out just a few days...
