The obituary for Wilbur Eggleston in the Ashland Citizen-Times offers a historic look at racial integration in North Carolina and Eggleston’s role in its progress. While working as a cab …
Life Stories
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Life is just like an old-time rail journey … delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed.
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Are you interested in delving into your family history and tracing your genealogy?
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Have you been to a cemetery lately? More and more people are visiting these fascinating places, and not just to visit their lost loved ones’ graves…
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Last month William Ash died at age 96, bringing to a close a life too strange to be made up.
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If all went according to plan, then musician, film lover and all-around awesome guy Chris Ferreira is very busy in the afterlife, as his obituary can attest.
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Not many transgender people made the news 20 years ago. Then came Brandon Teena.
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Whether helping the homeless or finding clever re-uses for pantyhose, Mary Mullaney, aka Pink, was special.
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Dr. William Wu’s amazing life story includes volunteering as a doctor during World War II, even though he was not allowed to become a U.S. citizen.
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What a movie Reta Banks’ life would make.