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Beep Beep! Our Covid Park Side Game by Cynthia Adams   In recent months, the usually subdued Latham Park isn’t. Turns out, one of the positives of a state- and city-wide lock down is seeing [...]

The Great Road Wagon by Jim Dodson     I call her The Pearl. She’s a 1996 vintage Buick Roadmaster Grand Estate station wagon – a true American land yacht with fake wood siding and a [...]

Make mine a double with a Splash of Geritol! By Annie Gray Sprunt “Call Dickie Andrews! Call Dickie Andrews!” was the early morning mantra of my grandfather for the last several years of his [...]

In Praise of Mrs. Kravitz She saw everything in the neighborhood — thankfully By Nancy Oakley She wryly calls herself “Mrs. Kravitz,” after the busy-body character from the 1960s television [...]

by Billy Eye   Restaurants that were previously closed are reopening all over Downtown Greensboro. There’s even a new kid in the heart of Hamburger Square. Last week, Crafted: Art of [...]

The Stuffed Potatoes By Jim Dodson Two or three times a month, we meet for lunch at a quiet bar of a local restaurant. We catch up on news and work, talk about books we are reading and swap tales [...]

Rainy Sundays By Jim Dodson   It’s raining this morning, a Sunday in early May. Few things, meteorologically speaking, make me happier. To begin with, Sunday is my favorite day. Also, soft rain [...]

Art Lives Here For Center for Visual Artists, the show must go on By Maria Johnson Fine art venues have been up against some blank walls with social distancing born of coronavirus, so the Center [...]

Take a tour of a Greensboro garden with Jim Dodson, O.Henry editor and best-selling author. Jim welcomes you to his home where he talks plants and future plans.    

by Jim Dodson   With graduation season upon us, here’s a letter I wrote to my son, Jack, eight years ago this week, upon his graduation from Elon University. My nickname for Jack was “Nibs.” [...]