by Wadesboro | Apr 16, 2020 | Wadesboro
Here’s the latest “Walking the Land” from Becky Dill, amateur naturalist, photographer and Paw barista: The best native tree that nobody grows has three names that people cannot agree on. Do you call it Fringe Tree or Grancy Greybeard or Old Man’s...
by Wadesboro | Apr 8, 2020 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. As noted in an earlier column, my knowledge of infectious disease comes mostly from questionable high school health classes and the occasional post-apocalyptic horror novel,...
by Wadesboro | Apr 2, 2020 | Wadesboro
The author, Steve Bailey, is outreach coordinator at the Anson County Historical Society. Dr. Esta Joyce Levy Kress and her husband Dr. Jack Kress arrived in Wadesboro in 1940. She was a “baby doctor” and he was a physician at the old Wadesboro Hospital on Morven...
by Wadesboro | Mar 31, 2020 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. In the midst of this COVID-19 crisis, I’ve been thinking a lot about 1991; specifically, the First Gulf War. In the spring of ’91, I was a 28-year-old sales manager for a...
by Wadesboro | Mar 26, 2020 | Wadesboro
The author, Steve Bailey, is outreach coordinator at the Anson County Historical Society. Hoyt Patrick Taylor Jr., who was born in Wadesboro on April 1, 1924, served as North Carolina’s lieutenant governor from 1969-73, following in the footsteps of his father (a...
by Wadesboro | Mar 25, 2020 | Wadesboro
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,...
