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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Bring Back The War Department

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a prescient and heartfelt speech in Chautauqua, New York, on August 14, 1936, about the tragedy and horrors of war.  Reflecting upon his own experience as...

FRED FIRST: Changing of the Guard

The theme for the Lenoir Words Writers Group this month is AUTUMN. And since I...

BOB BROWN: The Truth About Lying

Everyone lies! That’s the truth. Most people are relatively honest most of the time. The average...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hurricane Erin Is Our Future – Part II

Unfortunately, the U.S. is not the only country experiencing climate change. It is a global...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hurricane Erin Is Our Future – Part I

I read a prescient and depressing article in the Associated Press written by Danica Coto on August 16,...

There’s No Place Like Home!

by Mary Jo Shannon When I taught three and four-year-olds, one of their favorite stories was about a mouse family who lived in a...

A Summer Deckhand on the James

by John Robinson Chuck and I manhandle the wooden ramps into place as Grey prepares to direct the cars off the ferry. It’s another...

A Few Thoughts at 63 . . . And Counting

by Lucky Garvin Flying across the highway in front of me was a crow; and in its beak, a long piece of limp brown...

The Death of Privacy

by Hayden Hollingsworth That obituary was written long ago.  The Alien and Sedition Acts of the late 18th century jumped all over the rights...

To Make A Cool, Delicious Summer Classic, You Need A Little Magic

by Mike Keeler The beverage was originally dreamed up in Scotland.  The idea was to combine the cool bubbly refreshment of an ale with...

Be Still And Know That I Am God – By Rev. Joseph P. Lehman

Before John Solomon Rarey’s “horse-whispering” technique was published in the 1870s, the only way to break a horse was by violence and force...