by Wadesboro | Jan 9, 2020 | Wadesboro
Editor’s note: The author, Steve Bailey, is outreach coordinator at the Anson County Historical Society. The source for the following article is the Anson Record, May 26, 2010. The first African-American head coach in NCAA Division 1 basketball was born in Wadesboro....
by Wadesboro | Jan 9, 2020 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. The 1970s was an era known for its fads. You probably remember or have heard of pet rocks, mood rings, CB radios and leisure suits. One craze from that era seems to have been...
by Wadesboro | Dec 23, 2019 | Wadesboro
A Christmas Memory by John Marek. Over the winter of 1985-86, I had a six-month marketing/management internship with Wendy’s International. I was assigned to a group of 10 stores in north central Ohio and basically performed a lot of busywork tasks related to...
by Wadesboro | Dec 23, 2019 | Wadesboro
A “Wetherelves’ Nollaig Sguelachdan” Christmas memory by John Witherspoon. How can a little white dog and a bedroom full of flies start something like this? Well, like the phrase in quotes above, it’s complicated and mysterious. Witherspoon is supposed to be a Scot...
by Wadesboro | Dec 19, 2019 | Wadesboro
We continue our series of stories about local artists with this feature on Michael Phillips written by Beth Davis Traywick. At age 15 Michael Phillips began a successful career in hairstyling. For more than 40 years he owned, operated and managed First Edition...
