VOICES OF DAVIDSON
Curry for Three Event – Our Reflections
NEWS Photos from Bill Giduz - with our News of Davidson media credentials. Photos from the Curry for Three Event - taken from the stands. At our Monday editorial roundtable, the conversation wound up converging on the news of the week in Davidson - the Curry...
Adventures with Sparkles, Part I
NEWS Some of you don't know me well enough to know to whom I am referring when I say Sparkles. Sparkles is my Mach E Ford Mustang. Sparkles is an all-electric vehicle. Sparkles is my leap into the future. After Bill, my husband of 10 days shy of 49 years, died on...
Ben Kept His Promise – And Yes, That Was Him on The CBS Evening News
NEWS Last year at Memorial Day I wrote a piece about Ben Mitchell, the young man who had gotten me out of a bind on Memorial Day 2020. So this year, when I realized that I would be out of town on Memorial Day, I confess to wondering if anybody would notice...
We Remember
NEWS Memorial Day 2022 On this day and most days, we think of our mothers, our fathers, our heroes. Their mothers and fathers, their sisters, brothers. We remember. Our partners, lovers. Sisters, brothers, cousins. Our children, their children. Your children. Our...
Proclaiming Gun Violence Awareness Day on a Day of Gun Violence
NEWS Late Tuesday afternoon the Mayor and several Town Commissioners were in the board room preparing for the annual meeting with the soon-to-be graduates of Davidson's Civics 101 Course. This year, the participants of the morning and evening sessions of Civics 101...
Love Without Limits – Indeed
NEWS How fitting that in April, National Poetry Month, residents at The Pines honored the memory of their friend, Dr. Anthony (Tony) Abbott, an award-winning poet and well-loved English professor, emeritus, at Davidson College. Tony’s death during the...
Keep Dancing
VOICES OF DAVIDSON This past weekend included a variety of religious holidays. People celebrated Easter, Passover, and Ramadan – with in-person events for the first time in three years. Many events surrounding the major holidays in these world religions have...
Recollections of Davidson College, 1946-1950
NEWS (For this column the editors are happy to share some reminiscences by a guest columnist, Bill DuBose, Davidson class of 1950.) Freshman orientation marks the first vivid recollection I associate with my experience at Davidson. We were assembled in the...
“Ppreciate It!”
NEWS Who was Andy Griffith, really? Today, almost 55 years after the last production of “The Andy Griffith Show” and 10 years after his death, people all over the world still tune into that program every day. People think of Andy Griffith or Sheriff Andy Taylor as...
Who is Our Best-known North Carolinian?
NEWS Who is the best-known living North Carolinian today? Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski? Legendary basketball star Michael Jordan? Gov. Roy Cooper? Activist Rev. William Barber? Senators Thom Tillis or Richard Burr? Anybody else? Maybe one of these could be...
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