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One on One: Lightning Striking Twice

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

Could Brooklyn-North Carolina lightning strike again? Do you remember the important North Carolina...

One on One: Following Lawson Through The Carolinas

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

Why would anybody want to spend months walking from the South Carolina coast, up through the Piedmont to present-day Charlotte, and then back east to the North Carolina tidewater? There are two good reasons, one from more than...

One on One: Why We Let The Russians Off The Hook

Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 12, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Would you like to know why U.S. sanctions against companies owned by Russian billionaire and...

One on One: The Real Barbecue Crisis

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

North Carolina’s most important emergency is not the next federal government shutdown. Nor is it a...

One on One: The Tuscarora War’s Dirty Secret

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

There is a secret about North Carolina’s early colonial days, something even more disturbing and...

One on One: Just Like Samson

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jan 21, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Just like Samson, pulling down Baal’s temple Chapel Hill is still stunned. Folks here woke up on Tuesday last week to see the base of the Silent Sam monument gone, thanks to the surprising and decisive action of UNC-CH...

One on One: More and More Famous North Carolinians

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jan 14, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

A couple of weeks ago, I shared with readers a list of famous North Carolinians published in the 2019 “The World Almanac and Book of Facts.” I invited readers to suggest other people they thought should be on the Almanac’s list...