by Ann Campanella | Mar 4, 2024 | Local, News, Sports, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Davidson 2023-24 Women’s Basketball: A Season Filled with Heroism and Heartbreak . . .the perspective of two long-time fans and Davidson alumni By Ann Campanella By now, you’ve heard the sad news that the Davidson College women’s basketball team’s...
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...
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...