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Historic basketball figure born in Anson County
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....
Gimmicks sometimes beat innovations
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...
New charity fights childhood cancer
There’s a new local charity aimed at childhood cancer – the Max Life Foundation – and organizers have already scheduled their first event: the Sporting Clay Shoot for Childhood Cancer on April 3 at Four Branches Sporting Preserve in Polkton. Dianna Lariviere of Mount...
Christmas in the Depression Era
A Christmas Memory by Earl Poplin (born in 1931.) I’ve been asked to recount some Christmas memories from my childhood. A formidable task since the time lapse between then and now is greater than I like to think. (I will confide in you that remembering home is the...
Paging Norman Rockwell
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...
In search of the perfect tree, and prank
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...
Special gifts lead to extra-special note
A Christmas memory by Amy C. Roberts. Every year prior to Santa visiting our home, it was tradition that all of my children would clean out their toy boxes and get rid of items that they no longer played with in order to make room for new toys from Santa. This was in...
‘Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus’
As part of our special Christmas Memories edition, we couldn’t resist sharing what in our mind is the greatest newspaper editorial ever written. Penned by Francis Pharcelus Church (pictured) of the old New York Sun in 1897, it’s an answer to a letter to the editor...
‘The small whisper of kindness’
A Christmas memory by Colleen Boggess Retired now, my lovely friend was an elementary school teacher. She is smart, fair, firm and has the kindest, most loving and giving heart. A story she related to me. It was Christmastime and as custom goes, before the holiday...
Michael Phillips sets stage for local art
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...
You might be related to ‘Red’ Barber
Editor’s note: The author, Steve Bailey, is outreach coordinator at the Anson County Historical Society. We learn something every day and I recently learned a lot from my Historical Society guest, Jim Walker of Chicago, who is compiling a book on the famous baseball...
Field Notes: ‘GOALLLLL!’ Or, more likely, ‘goalllll’
The author, John Marek, is executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. What will the new Charlotte MLS team mean for rural communities around the region? When George Shinn brought the original NBA Charlotte Hornets to town in 1988, it was...