Recent Posts
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Star Stuff
The Earth is spinning at over a thousand miles an hour. That’s how fast I’m moving right now, sitting in one place wiggling my fingers. How did I get here? […]
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Walking in the Fog
This morning right at daylight I was walking in the fog. The sort of fog that soaks your hair that makes it seem you’re walking through a glass of fat-free […]
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Figment
Waking up in the dark, before the earth rotates and the sun appears to rise, I sit on the edge of a bed, facing a wall-size mirror. I position […]
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The Music Is All There Is
What do you get dancing the shag at SOS? Everybody gets what they came for. That was my impression. I just hoped SOS wouldn’t end before it got old. You […]
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Golden Oldies
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The Ocean Forest Hotel Jeered at Myrtle Beach
In Myrtle Beach, the first really big idea was the Ocean Forest Hotel. When I was a kid, six or eight years old, every time Daddy took us to the […]
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The Birth of Beach Music
Come the summer 2015, seventy-two years ago, new music that would mesmerize teenagers worldwide was heard first on the beaches of North and South Carolina. Southern kids called it Beach […]
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The Golden Seeds of Big Ideas
Myrtle Beach was always a gold-rush territory. Big ideas and risky ventures have ever-permeated the atmosphere. It started back with the turpentine industry and commercial agriculture before the turn of […]
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A Carnival Town
My daddy used to say that hard times in Myrtle Beach would never last as long as in the rest of the country because all year, working people would save […]