Category Archives: Responses

Profile Response: Trish Ramos and Bradley Kadel, Fayetteville NC

Trish Ramos is a local girl made good. She was born and raised in Fayetteville and spent Saturday afternoons downtown. She attended Fayetteville State University, a traditionally black college, on a minority scholarship when the school was trying to attract … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Green Beret Wives, Fort Bragg, NC

It is both an honor and a distinction to be a Green Beret, the best-known Special Forces unit within the US Army. Green Berets undergo two years of intensive training, after a minimum of three years regular army service, and … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Bill Brown, 8 Rivers Capital, Durham, NC

Miles Palmer and Bill Brown were walking through Manhattan in 2007 when Bill’s phone rang. He lost the call. “How can you lose a call in Manhattan?” He wondered aloud. “Oh, I could fix that, but it won’t happen.” Miles … Continue reading

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Responses: How will we live tomorrow?

How will we live tomorrow? “Drink your water and take your medicine.” Ben Pierson, five years old, Athens, GA How will we live tomorrow? “Hopefully more balanced than today. The concept of balance is important to me. I don’t know … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Burnside Family, Rice VA

Time is spiral; history is a sine curve; tomorrow is yesterday all over again. “Everything that is happening in this country has happened before: in Rome, in Egypt, before the comet.” An evening with Bryan Burnside, 66 year-old retired veteran … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Curtiss Hoffman, Anthropologist, Charlottesville VA

When is a pile a rocks just a pile of rocks? When does it have deeper significance? Perhaps it is a section of stonewall that separated colonial farms. Perhaps it is the remnant of a building foundation. Or perhaps it … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Raven Long, Innkeeper, Charlottesville VA

Fair Haven Guest House is not your Bob Newhart idea of a country inn. It isn’t in the country. It’s not littered with antiques. Host Raven Long and his wife Flame Bilyue do not bake muffins or brownies. After their … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Kathy and Robert Ellis, Rixeyville, VA

In 1710, the King of England appointed Alexander Spotswood Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. In order to explore and settle the frontier, Spotswood brought two large groups of German indentured servants (1714 and 1717) who worked seven years and were then … Continue reading

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How will we live tomorrow? “That’s a wide open one. If I avoid politics and religion I can’t give you a fun answer. Do away with elections and appoint a king? “If we all learned to listen before we spoke, … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Clark County Dinner Party, Boyce, VA

Washington DC has perhaps the most hierarchical geography in our country, an odd distinction for the capital of a supposed democracy. The tops dogs live in the tony parts of the District, Georgetown and Northwest. The suburbs have a clear … Continue reading

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