by Wadesboro | May 25, 2022 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. The apex of my college years occurred on an October Sunday afternoon in 1982. Just after 2 p.m., I typed the last word of a paper on Egyptian boat-building...
by Wadesboro | May 19, 2022 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. You are driving home. It’s not a long trip, not so long as to be tedious, anyway. You’re coming from a joyful event, a wedding maybe or a birthday...
by Wadesboro | May 3, 2022 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Mine was not a musical family. None of my siblings played an instrument, my mother didn’t even like listening to music, and none of us could carry a tune...
by Wadesboro | Apr 27, 2022 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. As a writer, I tend to be a tinkerer. I want to rewrite and rewrite forever and ever. That’s why I like writing this column every week for the Speckled...
by Wadesboro | Apr 20, 2022 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. The Easter pictures from Ohio in my family’s Facebook posts were of the winter wonderland variety; my hometown got three inches of snow over the weekend....
by Wadesboro | Apr 13, 2022 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Economic developers have a long-running joke that if a community has absolutely nothing going for it – no infrastructure, no businesses, no skilled workers –...
