Beluthahatchie

The Knight Foundation has provided startup funding for the Appalachian Independent , a fledgling online newspaper with the ambition of cove...

I admire without reservation this ad for the MAFIA, a.k.a. the Mollie A. Fearing Insurance Agency in Manteo, N.C., which we saw in Real Esta...

You can't tell from the crop in this online version of the article, but I was pleased to recognize immediately, in the May Southern Liv...

I share this ad for Claussen's pickles in case you missed it in the Sunday newspapers a few weeks ago. Once you're done wincing, sq...

I support Maryland Citizens Against State Executions (MD CASE), which opposes the death penalty, but I nevertheless was startled to receive...

I once thought that Ollie's Bargain Outlet had the most moth-eaten mascot ever seen in retail, but that was before Elmer's House o...

I recently was mailed an offer to subscribe to The Christian Century at the "professional clergy discount" of $39 for the year. ...

From my Aug. 26 "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" calendar: Henri Christophe (1767-1820) of northern Haiti ordered his guards to p...

Speaking of the Civil War : If you're wondering what to get the secessionists on your Christmas list, consider this item from The Brad...

During my recent visit, one of the display cases in the Stockyards Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, included several examples of the gory Civil ...

On my August business trip to Texas, I found myself in a town I never had visited before, Fort Worth. At first opportunity, of course, I we...

Tonight en route to a milkshake at the Frostburg Freeze, Sydney and I dropped by campus for the opening reception of the latest Roper Galler...

After years of urging from Sydney, I finally created a Facebook page, during a spare hour in a hotel room during our July driving tour of t...

Life has been a whirlwind since my last blog posting, in July. Shortly after Sydney and I got home from Readercon , I was offered a tenure-...

Sydney and I have been visiting her parents in Roanoke, Va., this weekend, and today we took a Sunday-morning excursion to the summit of Sha...

I'm sorry to hear that the excellent National Public Radio show Justice Talking is no more , its nine-year Annenberg grant having run o...

"I actually might get you to this opera," Sydney says, and she's right. It's an opera of The Fly, directed by David Cro...

The discovery of the only known copy of the complete three-and-a-half-hour cut of Fritz Lang's Metropolis is big news for movie buffs ...

I was sorry to hear of the death of science-fiction fan Jack Speer. I commend to everyone his pioneering history of fandom, Up To Now, wri...

In a StoryCorps conversation with her niece, recorded in Cincinnati and subsequently aired on National Public Radio, a 94-year-old woman re...