The legend of Popcorn Sutton  lives on.  The man was already larger than life when he was with us.  Sixteen years after he tragically passed...

Came upon this obituary on the website of a funeral home  that is back where I'm from originally.  I find this fascinating, on so many l...

This blog has been SLAMMED with visitors since three days ago coming to read  about Short Sugar's Bar-B-Q in Reidsville, North Carolina ...

Of all the things that the Biden economy has destroyed, in its final days it has taken down one last victim.  And being a proud son of the t...

It's quite difficult to believe that more than fifteen years have passed since Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton  left us.  He was a man...

The sad word came late yesterday evening that Dav Gerrells , who owned and operated Cafe 99 in Reidsville, North Carolina for many years, pa...

Today is the 120th anniversary of the first powered air flight, by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk on the  Outer Banks of North Carolina. ...

Yowza!!   And I've thought that many times over the past several years or so, in regard to the memory of Marvin "Popcorn" Sut...

For the past six days we've been watching it like a hurricane, churning ever closer and gaining strength along the way.  It has become t...

I'm still  choosing to be coy about where fate landed me after I left North Carolina almost four years ago.  Even so, I still keep an ey...

Despite now being a few years and several hundred miles away from my spawning grounds in Reidsville, I still tend to keep an eye on goings-o...

It was August of 2000.   I had been living in Asheville for just over two weeks.   With abandon I had thrown myself into the ways and custom...

Okay, to be fair, there has not been any formal notification of exile.  But having attempted to make comments with five different browsers a...

Photo: Gerry Broome, AP Apparently following the recent examples of others throughout the country, today thousands of teachers from acr...