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D.G. MARTIN COLUMN: Second-guessing Trump

It is easy to second guess somebody else’s political decisions. Especially if you are not a big fan ... Read more

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DG MARTIN COLUMN: The ugliest word, or the sweetest

Revenge. It may be the ugliest word in the English language. Or the sweetest when it describes a ... Read more

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DG MARTIN COLUMN: Lessons from famous and ordinary people

What North Carolinians would you most like to be subject to a new biography? People whose lives are ... Read more

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DG MARTIN COLUMN: A missing woman in Manteo and it’s not Virginia Dare

What happened to her? If you raise this question in Manteo on Roanoke Island at the edge of ... Read more

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DG MARTIN COLUMN: Comic strips, O. Henry and this column

It has happened again. As reported in this column recently, the Library of America honored the late Elizabeth ... Read more

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DG MARTIN COLUMN: Reckoning with our history

Having gone through a tenure battle at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill based, in part, ... Read more

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D.G. MARTIN COLUMN: Barbecue – true and faux

Why would John Shelton Reed write another book about barbecue? After all, he is a co-author of the ... Read more

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D.G. MARTIN COLUMN: Another prize for Elizabeth Spencer

Elizabeth Spencer, arguably one of our country’s greatest writers, died in December 2019 in Chapel Hill, where she ... Read more

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DG MARTIN COLUMN: Whirligigs to the rescue

Why make the small eastern North Carolina city of Wilson my first post-Covid break-out vacation trip? In a ... Read more

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D.G. MARTIN COLUMN: Changing times strain Carolina and Davidson

Tenure at UNC-Chapel Hill and changing rules about the Davidson College president’s religion pulled both schools into the ... Read more

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