700 North is largely indistinguishable from the thousands of other county roads crisscrossing this part of the country, rural Illinois, where I grew up. It’s just another dusty line woven between an enormous patchwork of gold and brown fields ready for harvest. A dull red combine lumbered through rows of corn as I looked for […]
D.L. Anderson
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Conservative pastor advocates sitting out presidential election
Inscribed in gold letters on a blue rug beneath the feet of the Rev. Patrick Wooden is the phrase “Preach The Word.” Wooden, pastor of the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, told his congregation during a recent sermon: “You don’t do people a favor, ministers, by assigning your own meaning, your […]
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Affixed: An anniversary of Antietam
One hundred and fifty years ago, Alexander Gardner must have breathed a heavy sigh as he crossed a field of misery and woe in western Maryland, pulling along his mule and a rattling wagon that contained his darkroom, filled with glass plates and volatile chemicals. More than 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed or […]
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Hopscotch streets
By Saturday night my little paper schedule and map of downtown Raleigh was trashed. It was still in my back pocket when the storm hit. I unfurled the soggy mess and stuck it to the wall of the hotel room on my way back out. I had little use for the thing anyway; all I […]
