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Gary Phillips is a writer, naturalist, and entrepreneur. Gary has a special interest and expertise in conservation easements and other land-protective strategies. He co-founded Weaver Street Realty over thirty years ago and is still active in the business. He lives in a rammed earth house with his wife Ilana Dubester in Silk Hope, North Carolina. Gary avidly reads poetry and anthropological science fiction, studies amphibian activities on full moon nights and was once chair of the Chatham County Board of Commissioners.

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Elisabeth Lewis Corley poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Hyperion, Carolina Quarterly, and many other publications. Corley was founding artistic director of the Atlanta Shakespeare Company, now operating as The Shakespeare Tavern, and an actor and producer Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway, notably for Signature Theatre Company in its first four seasons and in plays by Jim Grimsley for Harland’s Creek Productions. She has been the producer for StreetSigns in NC and NYC since 2012. At UNC Chapel Hill she has taught screenwriting and poetry performance.

Joseph Megel is artist in residence in Performance Studies at the UNC Chapel Hill Department of Communication where he runs the Process Series: New Works in Development. He is Artistic Director of StreetSigns and Co-Executive Director of Harland’s Creek Productions, producer of new plays, screenplays, and short films. Recent direction for StreetSigns includes: Cascade, Temples of Lung and Air, The Talk, Closer Than They Appear, Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green, Trojan Barbie, Blood Knot, Poetic Portraits of a Revolution, Dream Boy, and White People.

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Thomas Wolf was born, raised, and educated in the Midwest. A graduate of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois (1969), he later earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (1975). He is the author of “The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932” (2020), which was named “Best Baseball Book of 2020” by Sports Collectors Digest and was a finalist for the prestigious Seymour Medal. He is also the co-author with Patricia L. Bryan of both “Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland” (2005) and “The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption” (July 2022). He has lived in Chapel Hill since 1985. www.thomaswolfbooks.com

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Kyle Shipp is a dedicated community leader with experience in engineering and construction. He currently serves as a member of the Pittsboro Town Board and is a founding member of the Pittsboro Boys & Girls Club. He holds leadership positions on the Corporate Board for Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Carolina and the Board of the Pittsboro VFW and Pittsboro American Legion. Kyle resides in downtown Pittsboro, NC with his wife, Dianna; son, Rory and Stacks the dog.

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Meredith Voller spent many years managing sales, marketing, and events teams as a hospitality executive in luxury and boutique hotels in Chicago, Portland, Salt Lake City, Hollywood, and Madison. Now she’s happy to be a real estate broker and splitting her time between NW Indiana and the Triangle in North Carolina. When in NC she sings with the NC Master Chorale.

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This Week: Rachael Elliott is the current president of the Orange Chatham Association of Realtors (“OCHAR”) and Michele Hobaugh is the past president of OCHAR. Rachael Elliot helped host her first open house at nine years old, started practicing real estate full time at 22, and was honored to be named one of Coldwell Banker’s Global 30 Under 30 recipients in 2021. Now, she’s the Broker-in-Charge for Coldwell Banker HPW’s growing Pittsboro office and the 2023 President for the Orange Chatham Association of REALTORS®. Rachael also enjoys world travel, sporting events, and frequenting the diverse restaurants in the Triangle with family and friends.

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This Week: Jeff Jones is currently an Associate Professor of Russian-Soviet and contemporary world history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is completing his second book entitled Smoke, Mirrors and Memories: A Cultural History of the Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-1989, forthcoming in 2023. He also has published several articles.

James Wood is currently Professor of Latin American and modern world history at North Carolina A&T State University. He is the author of The Society of Equality: Popular Republicanism and Democracy in Santiago de Chile, 1818-1851 and the co-editor of Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations, now in its fifth edition with Rowman and Littlefield. As a Fulbright scholar for Chile in 2016 he was a visiting professor at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago (where he observed Chilean student activism up close).

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This Week: Jeff Jones is currently an Associate Professor of Russian-Soviet and contemporary world history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is completing his second book entitled Smoke, Mirrors and Memories: A Cultural History of the Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-1989, forthcoming in 2023. He also has published several articles.

James Wood is currently Professor of Latin American and modern world history at North Carolina A&T State University. He is the author of The Society of Equality: Popular Republicanism and Democracy in Santiago de Chile, 1818-1851 and the co-editor of Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations, now in its fifth edition with Rowman and Littlefield. As a Fulbright scholar for Chile in 2016 he was a visiting professor at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago (where he observed Chilean student activism up close).

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Roland McReynolds, Esq. Executive Director of the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association. Roland grew up in Columbia, Missouri. His grandma was a longtime subscriber to Organic Gardening; his family raised its own layer and fryer chickens, as well as grew most of their own vegetables. The family home was surrounded by conventional corn and soybean fields. Roland is a licensed attorney, and after the births of his children, he decided to devote his legal training and business experience to the service of promoting healthy agriculture for future generations.  

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