Today’s Santa Claus Is Roooted In American Mythology
Santa Claus is an American. This news may surprise readers who know he lives at the North Pole (where an American artist, Thomas Nast, put him in Christmas 1866) or who remember that the historical St. Nicholas lived in what’s now Turkey. But the modern Santa Claus we...
Moving From A House That Became A Home
MT. LEBANON, Pa. — It really was never supposed to be my forever home. Two years ago, I took one last look at what had been home for most of my adult life and decided to say thank you instead of goodbye. Thirty-one years earlier, I crossed the threshold of 260 with a...
News From Around the South 12/12 to 12/19
VIRGINIA: Richmond Removes Last City-Owned Confederate Statue RICHMOND, Va. — (AP) — The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — removed its last city-owned Confederate statue Monday, more than two years after it began to purge...
Do Americans Even Know How To Agree?
Paging through the latest survey research from More in Common, I came upon a phrase that deserves to be carved in stone: “conflict entrepreneurs.” You know them. They are the arsonists who incessantly inflame every disagreement in order to boost their own...
Official’s Decision to Reject Chapel Wall Shielding Lee Statue Upheld
Conservative voices in Lexington carry a new cry, “Build no wall,” not on the southern U.S. border, but inside the University Chapel at Washington and Lee University. The university’s effort to erect a wall inside the chapel that would shield a statue of one of its...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Largest conservation easement project in SC history underway with $50M grant COLUMBIA — More than 62,000 acres of land in the Pee Dee are slated for protection, marking the largest Read More