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By Bob Tedder • Daniel Silva surpasses the gold standard of modern espionage novels. His 2016 offering “The Black Widow” is a 24-carat continuation of the chronicles of Gabriel Allon, an art restorer turned agent who is Silva’s personification of “The Office’s” (read...

By Mark Scott, executive director of Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • “Small Business Saturday” is Nov. 24 – two days after Thanksgiving – and offers the chance to win $500 and help the local economy while saving on Christmas shopping. Market MontGOmery...

By Bob Tedder • Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard’s John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, is a highly adept practitioner of the literary criticism movement styled “New Historicism.” His 2011 book “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern” won both a Pulitzer...

By Mark Scott, executive director of Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • Sunday, Nov. 11, is Veterans Day. The local commemoration centers mostly in Troy, where the following events are scheduled on Saturday: 8 a.m.: Breakfast for veterans at the Troy Senior...

By Bob Tedder • It is a well-established fact, at least among less compulsive and more obsessed reading audiences, that books featuring recurring characters must be read in chronological order. It is equally certain that an author who can choreograph a character’s...

Photo: John Shaw, left, general manager of Lilly's Bridge Marina, and Mark Scott talking about Montgomery County on MyFox8 last week. By Mark Scott, executive director of Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • Though the 10 Days of Uwharrie: The Official North...

By Bob Tedder • Raised on meat and taters and, if the truth be known, more taters than meat, I have never been accused of being an epicure. Fortunately, my early association with Mt. Gilead’s tiny little library – Mrs. Safrit’s domain down beside Parker’s Hardware –...

By Bob Tedder • There’s always something to be learned from sparse books, even sparse history books that are more journalistic than historiographic. James T. Cheatham’s “The Atlantic Turkey Shoot: U-Boats off the Outer Banks in World War II” is a case in point. If one...

Saturday's festival was a huge hit, y'all. That's not just us saying that; Mayor Chip Miller agrees. "I thought our first Fall Festival On Main was very successful," he said. "It was truly a team effort of many hours from our town staff, festival steering committee,...

By Bob Tedder • Outside the embrace of the interstate highway system with its commercial homogeneity, the American South remains an enigmatic confluence of geography, history and people. After confronting the region’s peculiarities, historians, journalists and...

By Mark Scott, executive director of Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • 10 Days of Uwharrie: The Official North Carolina Outdoor Festival will kick off at 4 p.m. Friday with a concert that will last into the night at Lilly’s Bridge Marina. The 10 Days of...