Honoring the Past, Building a Future
The other day I posted a two part series on The Rocky Mount Telegram which led me to a new author and book because I used a quotation from The Imperfectionists. If you have an interest in journalism you will LOVE this novel. I write another blog, Stephenyhoughtlin.com with reviews of books, about writing, gardening, travel, … Continue reading Following Up-The Rocky Mount Telegram Leads to A Great Book
The first post I wrote for Main Street Rocky Mount, July 27, 2015, featured Evan Covington Chavez. I said then and I say now, that this bright and capable woman is the poster child for this blog because she holds in her hands a two-sided coin. One side represents the past, and the other, the future. … Continue reading Celebrating The Two-Year Anniversary of Main Street Rocky Mount With Evan Chavez
“The greatest influence over content was a necessity--they had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words, provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office.” Tom Rachman, … Continue reading Imagining a New Rocky Mount Telegram – Part 2
I intended to major in journalism. It never worked out. It didn't help that my junior year in high school I was turned down for a staff position on the Evanstonian, the school paper. Miss Stephens, the sponsor for the paper told me my grades weren't quite good enough, and for my sake, all the extra work on the … Continue reading Imagining a New Rocky Mount Telegram – Part 1
“A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.” Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education … Continue reading The Historic District Gardens of Rocky Mount – A West Haven Poem
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