VOICES OF DAVIDSON
Lefty Driesell in His Own Words
NEWS 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 thought it might be a better idea to let him...
Blowing Rock and Korea in 1950
NEWS 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 mountains in the early 1900s. He has done it...
Losing Great Poets
NEWS 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 his book of short stories,...
Jill McCorkle Does it Again
NEWS 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 with men whose violent tendencies wreck...
A Diner in New York and North Carolina Roadside Eateries
NEWS 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 New Yorker praised Old John’s for staying true to its nostalgic...
George Washington’s Failures—Steppingstones to Success
NEWS 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 was born on February 12, and all the other presidents whenever they...
Visionaries
NEWS 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 lowered. I have heard...
Kudzu Vines Wrap Around a Great Story
NEWS Kudzu. It's a word. It is a plant. Something that will perk up North Carolinians when they hear that word. In one sense it is a bad word in North Carolina because it reminds us of the fields and fields of otherwise good farmland taken over by an exploding mob of...
Goodbye to Martha and Medicare Advantage
NEWS What is the best day in December? Christmas? Maybe. Hanukkah? Could be, beginning December 7 through December 15. But for this year, for me, it is December 7, the last day to sign up for or change your Medicare Advantage plan. And, more importantly, it is the...
Christmas Elves are Real
NEWS After a fabulous eleven days visiting family in Denver and Los Angeles, I found myself sitting at LAX the Sunday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel days of the year. Two hours to wait at the gate, four plus hours in the air, home late Sunday night...
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