Letters to the Editor – March 11, 2015
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The Face of Poverty
By Bill Shepard How do you recognize poverty? What does it look like? Do you see it on the street where you live? Or in the marketplace where you shop? They say that it exists right here in America and perhaps on the very street where you and I live. I haven’t recognized it on my street, but that just goes to show how much a fellow’s eyes can fool him. There was a time when poverty was more easily recognized. When I was a boy, and...
Letters to the Editor – Jan. 14, 2015
Reader takes advice from Director of Darlington County Library System Thanks to the News and Press, I practiced Jimmie Epling’s advice. Epling is right. Slow reads are better! Bill Shepard is always fun to read, while Phil Noble makes me think. Samantha Lyles should publish her feature essays; they are truly excellent. Once again, thanks. Lib Ervin Darlington, S.C.
Here are my Top 10 resolutions for South Carolina
By Phil Noble This is the time for New Year’s resolutions, and I have a few for our state. Resolutions are all about hope – it’s about our hoping we can make a change and do better. So here are my Top Ten for South Carolina – Let’s have more pride in our state. There are lots of great things about our state but to listen to all the politicians, it’s all about being 50th in everything. We’re not a bad as we think we are. Let’s get...
A Picture and History Lesson
By Bill Shepard I have seen memorials to lost soldiers in other places, in memory of those that were often buried in unmarked graves far from their home, but none are as meaningful to me as the one that stands on the courthouse lawn in my hometown. The picture and story of Darlington’s Confederate Veterans Memorial in the Feb. 4th issue of this paper stirred a bunch of memories in this old writer’s mind. The picture and history lesson...
Old Friends
By Bill Shepard “Make some new friends, Keep your old. One is silver, The other is gold.“ I read the above lines from a plaque that was hanging on the wall at my sister’s house recently. As I read the lines, I gave thought to what I once read that was written by an older man. “If I had known I would live as long as I have, I would have made friends with folk that were younger than I; then when I was old, I would have a lot of...