When you’re talking with DG Martin, you’re talking to a veteran, lawyer, politician, administrator and author. DG’s been around the block a few times and you’ll hear his conversations with guests practically guaranteed to provide some of the most interesting back-and-forth you’ll hear all weekend.
November 4, 2023
Gene Nichol, Professor at the UNC Law School, talks about his new book, “Lessons from North Carolina: Race, Religion, Tribe, and the Future of America.”
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One on One: Memories from George Washington to the 22nd Century
“No. I didn’t know George Washington. But I had a friend who knew him very well.” I remembered these words last week when I was visiting a group of distinguished people in Salisbury. All of us remembered Julian Hart Robertson who died in 1995 and the story he liked to...
One on One: Boardinghouse Memories
It would be hard today to find an old-fashioned boardinghouse to spend the night and eat a meal with the other boarders. Not impossible, but difficult, and yet less than a century ago boardinghouses covered the towns and cities where Americans came together for eating...
One on One: Learning from SBF
In the midst of a terrible war in Gaza, why would I be reading a book about Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)? That book is Michael Lewis’s “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a new Tycoon.” Coincidently, the book came out just a few days before Bankman-Fried went on trial...
October 14, 2023
UNC-Chapel Hill’s Jodi Magness is the subject of the current UNC-Alumni Magazine. She is Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC Chapel Hill. She recently talked to the Chapel Hill Rotary Club about the latest in her work at Huqoq, in Israel. Including more about the stunning mosaics on an ancient synagogue’s floor where last year’s team uncovered an unprecedented depiction of two female biblical heroes.
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One on One: The Lost Colony and Jamestown
How did The Lost Colony fit in the founding of the English colonies in North America? Virginia Dare was born at the Lost Colony on Roanoke Island, the first child of English parents in America was born, and that gives North Carolinians a strong claim to be a critical...
October 7, 2023
Chapel Hill’s Daniel Wallace, the James Ross McDonald Distinguished Professor of English, at UNC-Chapel Hill, talks
about his recent book, “THIS ISN’T GOING TO END WELL: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew.”
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One on One: Time for Apples
The Lincoln County Apple Festival is set for Lincolnton on Saturday, October 21. Since 1972 this vibrant community event has entertained locals and visitors with varied activities and reminded us how important apples have been to us. This year’s festival will,...
September 30, 2023
Hillsborough’s Lee Smith, author of Silver Alert, talks about the new book and the quirky characters that fill her books.
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One on One: The Auman Legacy Covers the State
When Watts Auman, beloved community and political leader in Moore County, died at 84 on September 17, I knew that I would have to write about him. But there is a problem. Whenever I have written about Watts in the past, the column turned out to be more about me than...
