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BOB BROWN: Good Teachers

My Mother and Dad were Good Teachers My mother (1898-1971) had six children. I’m the youngest. She was 14 when she married my father (1892-1985); he was 21. She left...

DENNIS GARVIN: Somewhere Between Beowulf and John Wayne

I have been seeing the Rev. Henry for some years now. Twice a year, the...

FRED FIRST: Until I See What I Say

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” *E.M Forster? First thing...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Adolf Eichmann Would Have Been Proud Of Mahmoud Khalil

I read a sad and depressing article in the New York Post on March 15 about the...

DAWN CUSTALOW: Ode to the Mattaponi

It’s springtime, and shad are making their way back to the Mattaponi River in Virginia...

Recipe of the Week: Roasted Artichoke and Virginia Ham Stuffed Idaho Potatoes

I don’t know much about football but I do know potatoes and ham and when the Idaho potato people sent me this recipe...

Ghoulies and Ghosties in the Roanoke Valley

I’ve always been enchanted by an ancient Cornish Litany that goes like this: “From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties, and things that go bump...

Are You Prepared? And If So, Why?

Elizabeth Myer Boulton recalls that, during the energy crisis, her grandmother “became obsessed with keeping the needle of her Buick’s gas gauge above...

Lessons From Walt

Walt was an old man when I first met him in seventh grade. Oh, he was my age mathematically but a galling poverty...

Disappointment and Magic

I seem spend a lot of time being disappointed.  Disappointed in myself and those around me.  Disappointed in the ways of the world and...

The Ultimate Carolina Cross-Branded Culinary Confection

In 1917, the Carolina Beverage Company was established in Salisbury NC, which is strategically located along a major railroad distribution system.  There the...