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Mack Williams: Disturbance from the ‘upper room’
Something which occurred at a recent Sunday service at my church had all of us “looking above,” not ...
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Mike Wilson: Lulling mallards
By Mike Wilson My good friend the Boss Man and I often joke about lulling our opponents into ...
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Mike Wilson: Vaya con Dios, Jorge
It’s been a year since my dear friend Jorge (aka Dr. Jorge Antonio Silveira y Montes de Oca) ...
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Mike Wilson: Closing day, January 1983
By Mike Wilson The sky glows with that golden hue peculiar to a late winter afternoon. The temperature ...
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Ester Marsh: You cannot spot reduce areas of fat
With the new year, new YMCA members and returning members are starting to work out regularly, and this ...
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Mack Williams: January memories
My recollection of Januarys as a youngster in the 1950s-60s doesn’t involve any archiving of former New Year’s ...
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Mike Wilson’s Lick Creek Days: The bream rock
By Mike Wilson As a sexagenarian, I have lost almost all of my enthusiasm for baking outdoors in ...
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Mack Williams: Christmas singing season 2022
In the middle of my “Christmas singing Season 2022,” I became laid up with gout, “the gout,” as ...
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Larry Efird: My mother’s eyes
In 2021, my 91 year old father died as a result of complications from COVID-19. I watched my ...
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Mack Williams: Broken ‘memorials’
There’s a site not far from me where an old textile mill is being cleared to make way ...
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Mike Wilson: Christening ‘The Lucky 7’
By Mike Wilson When the Briery Creek Wildlife Management Area, featuring hundreds of acres of flooded timber for ...
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Ester Marsh: Exercise because you want to be healthy
Thanksgiving is past; now the rest of the holiday season is at our door. New Year’s not too ...
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Mike Wilson: No breakfast left behind
By Mike Wilson I have been extremely fond of breakfast all my life. My granddaddy had a taste ...
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Amanda Wilson: Boat with Rowan, Elvis connection wins prize in Southport
By Amanda Wilson For the Salisbury Post It was late in the summer of 1977 and a C-60 ...
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Mike Wilson: The Hartford and the (sigh) chair
By Mike Wilson I suppose I am sometimes viewed as “portly” by those with enriched active vocabularies. Accordingly, ...
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Mack Williams: Old dog, old man
One recent Sunday morning, I had something of a revelation regarding the inter-connectivity of life. This involved an ...
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Mike Wilson: Scouting days
By Mike Wilson I loved Scouting. I “went the distance” from Cub Scout on my eighth birthday ...
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Liz Senn’s Women of a Certain Age: Do you like me? Check Democrat or Republican
A child of the 1980s, I’m still waiting for the cute boy in class to pass me a ...
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Mack Williams: A man resting against a tree
Upon the recent anniversary of the early death of my father, Bernard Williams on Nov. 5, 1966 at ...
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Mike Wilson: A handy guide to low disposable income fowling
A well-heeled middle-aged acquaintance of mine recently decided to take up hunting for the first time and asked ...
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Retelling tales of ’12 days in June, 1951′
By Margaret T. Shumate Dottie Jean (Dorothy) Kirk is a Salisbury native and 1961 honor graduate of Boyden ...
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Susan Shinn Turner: Iris Evans, leader of Salisbury sister city contingent, dies
By Susan Shinn Turner For the Salisbury Post In 2001, a sister cities program began between Salisbury, England, ...
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Mike Wilson: Hunting with the King
By Mike Wilson Sorry, this is not about Elvis, though I did encounter him twice as a teenager ...
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Mike Wilson: Variations on buck fever
By Mike Wilson I shot my first deer as an adult in Virginia about 40 years ago. When ...
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Mack Williams: Five thousand tomato sandwiches
Earlier this year I was invited to another rural church where I sang an old favorite from one ...
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Mack Williams: Food for thought in aftermath of Ian
I have put together here a series of personal happenings and impressions during the time Tropical Storm Ian ...
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Mike Wilson: Where there’s a will …
By Mike Wilson I pretty much retired from dove hunting when the state opened the “resident goose season” ...
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Rafael Almánzar: Life advice from veterans
This article is titled “Life Advice from Veterans” for a particular reason. The inspiration for writing it co ...