News From Around the South, 9/9 to 9/16
SOUTH CAROLINA: Lowcountry Fossil Hunter is Sharing Ancient Finds in a Modern Way GOOSE CREEK — Waist-deep in a Charleston-area river, a pair of goggles atop his head and inflatable tubes floating around him, fossil and treasure hunter Matthew Mitchell held up a...
Free Speech and the Department of Political Justice
In 1966, two famous Russian literary dissidents, Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, were tried and convicted on charges of disseminating propaganda against the Soviet state. The two were authors and humorists who published satire abroad that mocked Soviet leaders for...
A Georgia County That Once Expelled All Black Residents Now Wants To Be A Model Of Love
Spearheaded by a group of pastors, a scholarship for descendants of a racial cleansing in Forsyth County in 1912 aims to right a multigenerational wrong. CUMMING, Ga. — When Durwood Snead moved to Forsyth County, Georgia, in 1989, he was struck by the lack of...
The Noble Dead
There’s been a mini-flap about former President Donald Trump’s recently reprehensible conduct at Arlington National Cemetery. First of all, what the hell did you expect? Secondly, when is Trump gonna stop with that cheesy “thumbs up” hand sign?...
News From Around the South, 9/2 to 9/9
NORTH CAROLINA: Buried military site emerges on NC’s Outer Banks, prompting beach contamination alert A stretch of Outer Banks beach within North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras National Seashore was closed Thursday, Sept. 5, due to contamination bubbling up from a...Obiter Dicta
The past few days have featured the vice president of the United States lecturing the pope on morality and church Read More
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MARYLAND: Frederick, Maryland, had an active role in Revolutionary War Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of 12 weekly stories focusing on America’s 250th birthday, as told Read More