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...
by D.G. Martin | Jan 22, 2024 | Local, News, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS George Washington’s Failures—Steppingstones to Success Is it on your February calendar? George Washington’s Birthday. February 22. Officially the third Monday in February is when we celebrate Presidents Day and honor Washington, Abraham Lincoln, who...
by Press Release | Jan 16, 2024 | Arts & Entertainment, Local, News, Voices of Davidson
Search for: NEWS Visionaries Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory of the Coming of the Lord… by: Mav Smith We are dreamers, who have been sieged upon for centuries. Our words aren’t our own. For we are voiceless within your sea. Our mast broken and sails...
