Opinion
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Willie’s Adventures (Part 3)
Seems around the fall of each year older churches would have homecoming and revival services. Why those evening services would end up lasting a full week. Most churches like Bethel, where Wille attended, would have a guest speaker and most of the time he would stay at the regular preacher’s…
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North Carolina can’t afford to lose its best teachers
We often measure an education budget by how many new teachers it attracts. Perhaps it is time to ask a different question: How many accomplished veteran teachers does it inspire to stay?
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Willie’s Adventures (part # 2)
You were introduced to Willie Hudson in last week’s column. We found out where he was born and lived his family as well and how his Pa thought that Willie had a curse. In this week’s column we’ll explore more about Willie, his family, friends and about the culture surrounding…
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Willie’ s Adventures Part #1
In the late eighteen and early nineteen hundreds a lot of folks in the south still lived on small farms. The south’s economy was slowly coming back following the Civil War. Some families still farmed the land that had been handed down for generations while some had lost their land…
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Monsters, myths, and mozzarella sticks: Re-reading Homer’s The Odyssey
Odyssey fever is sweeping America. Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya — what’s not to get excited about? These are huge stars taking on a massive story — calling it epic isn’t overstating it.
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Meet Henry, the murder goose
Recently, I took my annual road trip with my boys up to the “motherland,” a.k.a., the great state of Michigan.
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They fought for this country, they shouldn’t have to leave it to heal
Veterans with severe PTSD and depression are increasingly traveling overseas for treatments they cannot legally access in the United States.
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Vicious Summer Storm
Last Monday July 6th started out to be a regular Monday morning for my wife and I. We enjoyed the 4th of July with fireworks and hot dogs but were unprepared for the excitement that was still to come that very Monday evening and night.
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Battle at Piney Bottom (part 1)
After the Revolutionary Battle at Guilford Courthouse near Greensboro, N.C. Lord Cornwallis’ Army, being low on men and supplies, he marched his men toward Wilmington N.C. All the while General Nataniel Greene’s Continental Army gave chase but decided to go into S.C. to destroy any advances the British had made…
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Promoting civic literacy for America’s 250th
We Americans have always felt anxious about our democracy. As Benjamin Franklin famously said, ours is only “a republic, if you can keep it,” and we’ve been plagued by a nagging feeling ever since that we can’t. The latest bout of handwringing is brought on by declining literacy and the…
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Parts women played in American Revolution
In recent wars men and women fought along-side of each other in battle but in earlier times men mostly were in combat. In fact, it was forbidden for a known woman to serve in combat during the Revolutionary War on either side, but some did without knowledge of their commanders.
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MAHA has won — What comes next?
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his supporters in the so-called Make America Healthy Again movement accomplished their long-sought goal of significantly revising the U.S. childhood immunization schedule.
