One on One: Four Books, Four Struggles Posted by D.G. Martin | Sep 18, 2017 | D.G. Martin Could a miracle hair straightening ignite a deadly epidemic? Can a scientist persuade you that the... Read More
One on One: Recapturing The Dream of College Posted by D.G. Martin | Sep 13, 2017 | D.G. Martin At your age, could you go back to college and get some of the experiences that you missed? It... Read More
One on One: A Chapel Hill Monument Comes Down Posted by D.G. Martin | Sep 5, 2017 | D.G. Martin A monument to a treasured past came down in Chapel Hill last week. No, the Silent Sam statute of a... Read More
One on One: Confederate Monuments and a Whiskey Speech Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 28, 2017 | D.G. Martin Is there some way to help President Trump recover from the damage caused by his comments relating... Read More
One on One: “Cold Mountain” 20 years later Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 21, 2017 | D.G. Martin, Town Square “It was not a book that required following from front to back, and Inman simply opened it at... Read More
One on One: End-of-Summer Reads Challenge Our View of History Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 14, 2017 | D.G. Martin Two recent books have pushed North Carolinians to deal with unpleasant episodes in our state’s... Read More
One on One: The Eateries of Madison County Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 7, 2017 | D.G. Martin Some people fall in love with bridges, as in the late Robert James Waller’s “The Bridges of... Read More
One on One: 76 Trombones and Loyalties to Con Men Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 31, 2017 | D.G. Martin “Seventy-six trombones led the big parade, with a hundred and ten coronets close at hand. They... Read More
One on One: Which Political Party is More Anti-Science? Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 24, 2017 | D.G. Martin If Jim Martin could make peace between religion and science, could he do something similar about... Read More
One on One: Tracking Down the Eateries We Missed Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 17, 2017 | D.G. Martin Can you believe it has been almost a year since I last wrote a column about local country-cooking... Read More