by Wadesboro | Oct 26, 2022 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. In the middle of the summer of 2004, I went with my wife and some friends to see “The Manchurian Candidate” starring Denzel Washington and Liev...
by Wadesboro | Oct 18, 2022 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Any group of bored college students can come up with stupendously dumb ways to spend a Saturday night, but in the fall of 1982 my Ohio University buddies and...
by Wadesboro | Oct 12, 2022 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. This week, a fascinating nugget of aviation history. In 1953, a Texas businessman named Ellis Hall disappeared while flying his small plane over the...
by Wadesboro | Oct 5, 2022 | Uncategorized, Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. There is a shelf, it’s a cubby really, in our walk-in closet where I keep my everyday carry items: watch, change, wallet, pen, pocket knife, keys, etc....
by Wadesboro | Sep 27, 2022 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. On my way to get a cup of coffee early Saturday morning, I came across a strange sight along a lonely stretch of rural road. A dead cow was lying in a shallow...