The ‘stretch-out’: The idea that wrecked life for mill workers

During the mid-1920s and on into the mid-1930s, the textile industry was expanding all over the South.

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My romance with old, rusty pickup trucks

My excursions along back roads always reveal two nostalgic sights: the rusting tin and decaying wood of crumbling barns and old pickup trucks beneath sheds.

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Fungus among us: The mystery of Southern mushrooms

Here I am biking along a nature trail, when a juvenile delinquent squirrel shoots across my path with a cigarette in his mouth, only it wasn’t a cigarette.

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Test your memory! Reveal your age! Do you remember … ?

You purchased gas, and the attendant would wash your windshield, check your oil, and sweep out the floor of your car free?

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National Newspaper Week

Just a reminder, National Newspaper Week was Oct. 4-10.

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How the lima bean saved the world

The little bean that saved the world!

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