D.G. Martin, Author at Chapelboro.com

Dealing with “The Help”

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 23, 2011 | D.G. Martin

“You-all afraid if we take over we might treat y’all like you treated us. And you might be right.” It sounds like something Minny, one of the characters in “The Help” (either the book or the new movie), might say to one of the...

In the shadow of Cold Mountain, a real Inman

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 16, 2011 | D.G. Martin

Driving south on Lake Logan Road, in the Pigeon River Valley and the shadow of Cold Mountain, headed towards Inman’s Chapel the other day, I could not help wondering whether or not the Inman in Charles Frazier’s “Cold Mountain”...

Hope for our “contentious and fitful process”

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 9, 2011 | D.G. Martin

Did anything good come out of last week’s resolution of the debt limit crisis? Well, maybe. But it was hard to find it in those first few days after the last-minute legislation passed, promising reductions in spending and...

New books and a new Bookwatch

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 1, 2011 | D.G. Martin

UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch begins a new season on Friday, August 5, at 9:30 p.m., and Sunday, August 7, at 5 p.m. My editors let me share with you my reading suggestions. They know that the suggestions parallel exactly...

North Carolina’s British Queen

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 26, 2011 | D.G. Martin

Here is a North Carolina history question: Which North Carolina counties were named in honor of women? Dare, of course, in honor of Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents born in America. Wake was named for Margaret...

The Civil Rights Revolution—inside and on the ground

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 19, 2011 | D.G. Martin

Do you remember seeing photos of the 50th anniversary reunion of the Civil War battle at Gettysburg? Aging veterans from both sides of that war gathered to remember together the horrors of the battle and to celebrate their...

Fiction tells the truth about North Carolina’s changing rural landscape

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 12, 2011 | D.G. Martin

We have changed. More urban. Less rural and farming. At least that is what the latest Census is telling us. But the story is more complicated. It is more interesting, too. Out in the formerly all-rural counties of our state, new...

More help for farm fresh food eaters

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 5, 2011 | D.G. Martin

Last week I introduced you to two authors of new food books that celebrate the joys of preparing and eating fresh farm food in season. In that column I wrote about Andrea Reusing’s “Cooking In The Moment: A Year of Seasonal...

Help for farm fresh food eaters—part one

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 28, 2011 | D.G. Martin

What is North Carolina’s most widely available summertime pleasure that we most often pass by without partaking? It is the bounty of delicious fresh foods that are available throughout the state all summer long. I have been...

Why do North Carolinians love pirates so much?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 21, 2011 | D.G. Martin

Pirates in North Carolina again? Yes, we remember Black Beard. Most authorities now agree that the shipwreck we thought was Black Beard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge is just that. The big news about the recovery of the ship’s...

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