First it was singer Natalie Cole who died right before New Year’s. Then David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Glenn Frey, Paul Kantner. Big-name entertainers all gone within four weeks of one another. So far, 2016 has been bittersweet. If you’re a Baby Boomer, most of these names are familiar. They rocked our world at one time or another. Rickman, a famed …
Exploring Harper Lee’s Southern wisdom
Roxboro, NC is hosting a community read about To Kill a Mockingbird. Recently the Person County Public Library asked me to discuss the book as my work as a Road Scholar with the North Carolina Humanities Council. I shared how Harper Lee’s seminal novel set the standard for what we’ve come to expect not only in a child-narrated story, but …