D.G. Martin

“She lived on this island for 77 years and never left, not even for a day,” Alton Ballance told us about a woman who spent her entire life on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina.

Every day, news outlets feature Elon Musk and his activities with DOGE, (the Department of...

Some Democrats argue that what they need for the 2028 presidential election is a southern moderate like Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton who won election– or like Al Gore whose win was taken away by the courts.

When The New York Times or any other national media outlet publishes an article about a North Carolina topic, I jump, knowing that many of my readers share an interest in what other people think about our state and its people.

UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Emeritus William Leuchtenburg died on January 28. He was born on September 28, 1922.

Regular readers of this column may remember my interest in the so-called Mecklenburg Declaration...

The recent inauguration of Donald Trump brought back memories of the 1965 event and our travel from Fort Bragg (now Liberty), an overnight at Marine Corps Base Quantico about 35 miles south of the Capitol in Washington.

Why am I reading Mark Twain again? It has been more than 70 years Since my class at the Davidson Junior High school produced a play based on Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”