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Field Notes: A scholarly discussion of TP
The author, John Marek, is executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Late on the evening of Dec. 19, 1973, Johnny Carson made a joke about a toilet paper shortage on “The Tonight Show.” It was a silly throwaway line in his nightly monologue,...
How Belk’s window displays became ‘the best’
This week, Steve Bailey, outreach coordinator at the Anson County Historical Society, turns over his column to Brothel Dean of Wadesboro, who writes about his dad’s amazing work history with Belk’s of Wadesboro. My father, Joe Dean, began his work career with Belk’s...
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Drug store pledges to stay open, make deliveries to people in need
The author is Anil Chinapaga, owner of Cochrane Ridenhour Drug Co. in Mt. Gilead. We here at CR Drug (Cochrane Ridenhour Drug) are committed to helping you navigate through this coronavirus epidemic. We will stay open during this problem and work long hours if...
Field Notes: Blockbuster boomed before it busted
The author, John Marek, is executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. I watched an excellent little movie called “Freaks” on Netflix the other night. It was a sci-fi/horror mashup about a little girl who is locked up in a dilapidated house by...
‘And I was dead. At least I thought I was.’
The author, Robert Russell, lives in Mt. Gilead. Aug. 22, 2018, was a day like every other day; rise up and pray, shower, dress, prepare a lite breakfast – milk and cereal, orange juice, banana, a handful of nuts. Just a normal morning. I was feeling good healthwise,...
Field Notes: Puttering in the (rotting) garden
The author, John Marek, is executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. After my freshman year at Ohio University, I returned home for the summer break and got a job at a local restaurant. It was menial work for minimum wage, but my coworkers were...
Morven woman elected to Congress in 1946
Editor’s note: The author, Steve Bailey, is outreach coordinator at the Anson County Historical Society. Eliza Jane Pratt, who was born in Morven on March 5, 1902, was elected as a Democrat to the 79th Congress in 1946 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of...
Heroic Tuskegee Airman has Wadesboro roots
Editor’s note: The author, Steve Bailey, outreach coordinator at the Anson County Historical Society, recently accidentally discovered this article and photo about First Lt. Andrew Marshall. Even though Andrew Daniel Marshall was born in West Virginia in 1924, his...
Field Notes: Trails, dogs and people
The author, John Marek, is executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. The Cattail Trail begins just off the picnic area and loops for two miles along the shore of Mountain Island Lake in Mecklenburg County's Latta Plantation Park. I have walked...
Wadesboro native ‘behind one of the most-sampled pieces of music in history’
Editor’s note: The author, Steve Bailey, is outreach coordinator at the Anson County Historical Society. Wadesboro native Richard Lewis Spencer, a Grammy-winning musician, minister and teacher, is “behind one of the most-sampled pieces of music in history,” according...
Field Notes: Hanging with the sponge fishes
The author, John Marek, is executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. I’m not sure when the idea of wanting to be a marine biologist became a pop culture punchline, but it was certainly not so in the 1970s. For a period of two or three years...