By BILL DUNCAN
The Elder Statesman
The child’s play in Washington over the debt ceiling has brought silence to another great debate – the immigration law. It has been over a year since any solution has been on the lips of lawmakers. Yet America’s porous southern border is still an issue. Only recently, The Associated Press had [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
You just never know what you will find in the library discard pile. Actually, I didn’t, but Dorothy Lamoureaux did. She is a colleague as a Hospice volunteer at the Roseburg VA Health Care System and knowing my newspaper background figured I would be interested in the editorial sketches and essays compiled [...]
Cardboard Gods
An American Tale
By Josh Wilker
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Trade Paperback Reprint $15.95
By BILL DUNCAN
The News-Review
Josh Wilker’s “Cardboard Gods,” was first published by Seven Footer Press and as some books do, received phenomenal attention as a hard to describe genre. I would consider it a memoir told through a baseball card collection. On the other [...]
Founding Gardens
Andrea Wulf
By BILL DUNCAN
The News-Review
Strange as it may seem, Andrea Wulf, a British citizen, in her book “Founding Gardeners,” writes about her belief that what led our fledging nation to economic independence was agriculture. The first four presidents, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were all farmers and planters. Their [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elder Statesman
Recently I reviewed a book for Currents using a Kindle reader. I may be an electronic dinosaur, but reading with finger swipes rather than physically turning a page is not my cup of tea. I want to hold, fondle and savor the words on a printed page. Over the years I [...]
Wicked Bugs
By Amy Stewart
Illustrated by Briony Morrow-Cribbs
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Hardcover $18.95
By BILL DUNCAN
The News-Review
Since the beginning of human existence on Earth, we humans have been bugged by bugs of all shapes and sizes, some harmless nuisances, others carrying disease and death in their poisonous venom. For example, according to Amy Stewart in “Wicked [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elder Statesman
My son, Barry, died on Friday, July 1 from malignant melanoma, the same cancer I survived more than 30 years ago after being told it was terminal. Why this vital, young father of five lost the battle and an old wretch like me lives on is one of life’s imponderables.
At age [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elder Statesman
I think it started in 1982 when seven people died of cyanide poisoning after containers of the pain reliever Tylenol were tamper and the poison injected while on the store shelf. Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Co immediately recalled all its products at a cost of $100 million dollars.
This product tampering danger, [...]
