D.G. Martin, Author at Chapelboro.com

One on One: A Christmas Fool

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 16, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Imagine the Bethlehem Christmas story set in a shopping mall in eastern North Carolina. Think of a...

One on One: North Carolina Books to the Rescue

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 9, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

“Are there new North Carolina books that would be good holiday presents for hard-to-give-to...

One on One: Grisham Clears The Innocent

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 2, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

“After 36 Years in Prison, 3 Men Cleared in Killing,” a headline in The New York Times streamed...

One on One: A Literary Capital for a Day

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 25, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Where is the literary capital of North Carolina? Hillsborough? Pittsboro? Chapel Hill? The big...

One on One: Are We Virginia, or West Virginia?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 18, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Are we, politically speaking, more like Virginia or more like its sister state, West Virginia? As William Galston pointed out in the November 12 issue of the Wall Street Journal, it might depend on what time period we are...

One on One: Moonshine to the Rescue

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 11, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Moonshine has come to my rescue. I am always trying to find ways to make North Carolina Number One in something important. Thanks to UNC-Asheville Professor Daniel Pierce, we have a substantial claim to be Number One. In his new...

One on One: The Late Eatery

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 4, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

“The late.” It is a term I am having to insert too many times as I revise and update “North...

One on One: Deficit Alarm Bells

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 28, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Why aren’t the alarm bells ringing? But the bells are ringing. Then why aren’t we listening? Here is one bell ringing true and clear. Writing in The New York Times last week, Alan Rappeport reported, “The United States federal...