Beluthahatchie

Railroad Fever: Songs, Jokes & Train Lore , a highly entertaining 1998 compendium by Wayne Erbsen of Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa,...

After more than a thousand Northern snakeheads were discovered in a Crofton, Md., pond in May 2002, the state Department of Natural Resourc...

DNA testing confirmed the centuries-old rumors about Thomas Jefferson fathering slave children with Sally Hemings. Now The Dallas Morning Ne...

USA Today reports that the first "water fund," created for investors betting that water will become an increasingly scarce and lu...

My brother got mentioned in The Twin-City News , published weekly in our hometown of Batesburg-Leesville, S.C. Harriet Householder's co...

Jonathan Strahan has announced the final lineup of stories for Eclipse 1 , and I'm still delighted to be included. Alphabetically by a...

From Zev Chafets' appreciation of the Rev. Jerry Falwell: One of the country’s leading Pentecostal figures broke off relations after Fa...

Maryland institution George Prettyman Sr., weekly columnist for the Cecil Whig for 50 years, died June 11 at age 94. According to the obi...

I was reminded this week of an apocryphal journalistic story, retold in the opening paragraphs of Dan Simmons' novel A Winter Haunting ...

We didn't see which cat, but it was almost certainly Hillary. The award now has a tiny scuff mark and the floor a tiny dent. Sydney su...

I'm delighted to report that Jonathan Strahan has accepted my new story "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse" for his original anth...

On his blog, Eugene Myers points out that while SciFi.com has announced it's no longer hosting the old SCI FICTION pages, the zine...

Just when I was beginning to get nostalgic for colorful (if regrettable) Alabama politics, along comes the 2007 mayoral election in Ridgeley...

This weekend in FYE in Valley View Mall in Roanoke, Va., I stumbled upon a sale of Special Collector's Editions of Star Trek movies for...

One Alabama legislator recently punched another one on the Senate floor in Montgomery -- something we always expected to happen, the 10 yea...

Sydney sent me this link with the subject line "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long." "Teddy -- I suppose Mummy and Daddy are re...

I was sorry to hear of the death of Charles Nelson Reilly, and sorry, too, to see that most of the published obits omitted (for me) the hig...

The Baltimore Sun reports that the effort to eradicate nutria from Maryland's Eastern Shore is costing the federal government about $1 ...

While watching the Weight for Height competition at Saturday's Highland Festival in McHenry, Md., I was most impressed by the contesta...

Sydney and I took these photos of one another at Saturday's Highland Festival in McHenry, Md.