Why community newspapers matter
“I got credit down at the grocery store and my barber tells me jokes…” —Roger Miller The chosen theme for this year’s National Newspaper Week is “Power of the Press,” and that power, it seems to me, is a very relative thing. Everybody understands the power of, say, The New York Times or The Washington Post, but probably less recognized and appreciated is the power of the Deer Creek Pilot and the thousands of other small, community...
September Gales
Often times at night, when sleep won’t come, I slip out of this old frame where I live, and journey back to the place of my childhood. Though it has been more than four-score years, and everything about the old place has undergone change, I feel that I am home. The little three-room house where I spent the first ten years of my lifetime is still standing and occupied. The Atlantic Coastline railroad track still passes along in front...
Letters to the Editor – September 30, 2015
A special thank you goes out today to our first responders in Darlington County and the great state of South Carolina. When have you told these brave men and women thank you? They give countless long hours serving us while we are asleep, at work, and on vacation. They do this because they really care for each of us.
Intergenerational Empowerment Rural Survival Vision Extravaganza
The Darlington County Cultural Realism Complex, Inc. presents the 2015/2016 Annual Intergenerational Empowerment Rural Survival Vision Extravaganza with October 3, 2015 being the “Beginning With No End in Sight – Save the Children, Save the World”
Here I go again – War Maneuvers 1939
By Bill Shepard It is September and I remember! There has never been a September that I didn’t remember! How could I forget? The memories of that time long ago are forever etched in my mind! I see faces before me that have long disappeared from the planet, and I hear voices that have long been silent. They are present, locked in my memory, the place where time stands still. The time was September 1939. The seventeen-year-old stares at...
Preserve history by creating a future
By Bill Pickle Over the past several years we have witnessed a wave of destruction, disfigurement, removal and things being changed that should be left alone. Most of these activities are done in the effort to destroy or change hisatory. Others are misguided actions to correct a wrong. I propose all of the described actions are foolish and selfish. In the Middle East we have ISIS destroying temples, monuments, art and historic...