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Field Notes: You cannot be cereous!
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Regular readers (and thanks both of you!) know I started college at Ohio University but graduated from Bowling Green. While both are fine academic...
A very special 4/1/21 Field Notes: Professional hockey coming to Wadesboro; Anson Loggers to begin play in 2022
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Woody Sports Entertainment announced today that Wadesboro, N.C., has been approved as the newest franchise in the Southern Professional Hockey League...
Field Notes: Trust in authority, but verify
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. At some point in our lives, most of us have been either the victim or the perpetrator of a prank phone call. Most of these calls are harmless. Many are...
Field Notes: Pigskin on the hardwood
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Fifty years ago this week, my mother and I attended a basketball game at the high school gym in my hometown of Port Clinton. Of itself, that wasn't an especially...
Field Notes: Implements mightier than swords
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. A few years ago, I wrote a magazine article about Banana Republic, the real safari-clothing Banana Republic of the 1980s, not the upscale Gap that has...
Morven native Juanita Morris Moody helped U.S. avoid war with Soviets
Editor’s note: The author, Steve Bailey, is outreach coordinator at the Anson County Historical Society. We do learn something new every day. Thanks to Anson County Historical Society member Speed Hallman of Wadesboro for notifying me of the interesting life of...
Field Notes: Baseball realignment not quite a homerun
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Die-hard baseball fans have known for a couple of years that a significant restructuring of the minor leagues was coming this season, pending a renegotiation of...
Field Notes: Freedom, but not much sleep, by night
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. For most of my elementary school years, my father worked second shift, what he called “three-to-’leven,” at the U.S. Gypsum plant down the road from our house....
Field Notes: The confounding case of Elisa Lam
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. The human brain has a fantastic ability to find patterns and connections in seemingly unrelated things. This ability has given us mathematics and engineering,...
Field Notes: Personal challenges
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. The inclement weather the past couple of days relegated me to working in the garage, so I decided to "tune up" my bicycle for the spring. I replaced the tubes,...
FIELD NOTES: Great taste. Less Filling. Mostly legal.
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. This month's Popular Mechanics features an article on the "science of making low-alcohol beer." It turns out low-alcohol and no-alcohol beers are gaining...
FIELD NOTES: Remembering ‘The Shack’
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Whenever I drive into Anson County from the west on U.S. Hwy. 74, I pass a derelict Radio Shack sign in front of the Food Lion plaza in Marshville, and my...