By BILL DUNCANThe Elderstatesman
This is not an easy column for me to write. I had just finished editing a column for the April 5thedition of a magazine section for senior citizens written by Peyton Walmsley when the telephone rang. It was a call from his daughter, Kit, to tell me Peyt died.
I had spent time [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe Elderstatesman
The trip to my rural mailbox usually means lugging back an armful of catalogs, sales fliers and charity solicitations. Hopefully there is at least one personal letter. Most of the mail is addressed to my wife. Recently she decided to end the clutter by canceling all the catalogs directed to her.
She found a [...]
The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes A Mother’s Story By Randi Davenport Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Hardcover $23.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Warning: This is a heart-breaking story about a courageous mother’s battle to save her autistic son in a world that has little compassion for unruly, dysfunctional children. It [...]
Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger New and Selected Stories By Lee Smith A Shannon Ravenel Book Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Hardcover $23.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Reading stories by Lee Smith is to take time out on a summer day with a glass of sweetened ice tea and sit in [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe Elderstatesman
Admittedly, there are some strange goings on in the world today. Earthquakes, tsunamis, severe storms and prophecies about the end of the world coming in the year 2012, based on an ancient Mayan calendar. One of my doomsday readers sent me a 47-page document exploring the mystery of 2012 with a recommendation [...]
Roseburg By Diane L. Goeres-Gardner And the Douglas County Museum Arcadia Publishers Images of America Paperback $21.99
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
As a reporter in Douglas County, I have used the fabulous photo archives of the Douglas County Museum on many occasions but always looking for a specific photograph from [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe Elderstatesman
I finally got one of thousands of unsolicited e-mail forwards from people I never heard of warning me about the hazard of taking my next breath which I can actually relate to and be willing to share with my readers. As usual the source is that guy named anonymous, but it is a [...]
