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A Wonderful Place To Explore
We’d just had a wonderful fish dinner in Mebane, North Carolina and were driving through town on our way West when I saw the small sign in front of this huge warehouse. “5th Street Books.” […]
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Recovering is Half the Fun
On the Friday before Halloween we had big doings here in our little town of Hillsborough, NC. All of the stores were open late and the kids dressed up in the costumes and went trick […]
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The Outer Banks of North Carolina
We just returned from four days of exploring the Outer Banks. After visiting Mateo and although it is off season and there was no show at The Lost Colony Amphitheater, I walked onstage and pretended […]
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Self Supporting Geniuses
My wife, Jean and I visited the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina recently and it just blew my mind the way the Wright Brothers met each new challenge head on […]
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Purple Heart Viola Sale
I’m a lifetime member of the Military Order of the Purple Heart and once a year our group goes out and sells Violas, which are purple poppies for contributions and the money is used for […]
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Use It Or Lose It
As I get older my memory seems to be getting better and better. Don’t look shocked. You read that correctly. Just this past July I went out in front of an audience and did a […]
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Dodging Bullets
As our North Carolina Governor Bev Purdue recently put it so well, here in North Carolina we just dodged another bullet. Hurricane Earl came and went and most of us here in North Carolina are […]
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The Great Storm
I Wish I Would Have Stayed Home In North Carolina this just might become known as The Great Storm Of The 21st Century. People throughout the state have been stocking up on simple necessities like […]