The General Store That Cultivated A Community, One Friday At A Time
LANSING, North Carolina — Nestled in the rolling farmland in Ashe County is a tidy white-clad building whose wistful charm beckons you to stop. It’s the kind of place you may only spot if you set your navigation app to avoid highways. And even if you’re...
News From Around the South 7/3 to 7/10
SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘He saw the best in me’: How a Hilton Head principal influenced the South’s history HILTON HEAD, S.C. — Isaac W. Wilborn Jr. was asked to carry the sins of the Deep South on his small shoulders. He was young, not long out of college and...
News From Around the South, 6/26 to 7/3
Confederate flag displayed by Connecticut contractor fuels outcry FITCHBURG, Mass. — A Connecticut asphalt company apologized after a motorist captured video of a Confederate flag hanging from one of its vehicles, during highway repair work in Massachusetts. A...
Independence Day, 2023
“Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away or by three thousand tyrants one mile away?” — Rev. Mather Byles (1706-1788) Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature?...In Charleston, A New Museum of African American History Honors a Journey of Grief and Grace
In Charleston Harbor, where the initiating shots of the Civil War were fired — Fort Sumter is distantly visible — I’m on the site of a former shipping pier known as Gadsden’s Wharf. Here, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, ships carrying tens of thousands of...Obiter Dicta
“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, Mankind would Read More
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TEXAS: State Celebrates Texas Independence Day It was on March 2, 1836, when historians believe the original and five copies of the Texas Declaration of Independence were written and signed Read More