In the town of Clinton, there are two entities: the Clinton High School Red Devils, who win the games, and the Presbyterian College Blue Hose, who lose them. These are their stories. PC and Clinton used to be damn near one and the same. People in Clinton with no formal means of connection used to …
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Moon shots …
I have some thoughts regarding here, there and yonder. Every NFL team that needs a quarterback better have a reliable backup, too. Quarterbacks who run are popular. Defenders who want to clobber them are, too. The only quarterback I’ve ever seen who was more physical than the men trying to tackle him was washed up …
An audible at the line
Clinton's Jayden Robinson runs away from Laurens defenders. (Monte Dutton photo) I’ve held this blog back a couple of days while I first informed people who needed to know. Laurens County Sports is no more. Furman All the Time! is no more. I pulled the plugs two days ago. I’d been thinking about it for …
Red Devils wrap up region crown
UNION – Clinton put an emphatic claim on the Region 4-3A baseball title with a 6-1 victory over Union County, the only remaining obstacle in its path. Wil Stewart gave up a single and a walk to the Yellow Jackets in the bottom of the 1st but struck out Andrew Latham to end the inning …
Eating peaches and pondering other stuff
Clinton, S.C., July 10, 2022,10:28 a.m. (Pixabay photo) First of all, the highlight of the week was peaches. Like all self-respecting South Carolinians, I love peaches and know that my home state produces more peaches than the so-called Peach State, Georgia. Even though modern times have made produce available year around, it generally isn’t produce …
Pre-Memorialized
“I got the Guide to Jesus in here! Nowumsayin’?” His exhortations were to three people sitting on benches. None responded. This is Memorial Day, though it was my observation this morning that it has been pre-memorialized for our protection. Uptown was mostly vacant except for the café on the square where I take most of …
In a nutshell
I think the person who led me to distrust authority was Richard Nixon. In my formative years, I trusted him, and then I found out he was lying about almost everything. In high school, I became obsessed with reading everything I could find about Nixon and I devoured everything from Jeb Stuart Magruder’s One Man’s …
Review: My Dear Hamilton
I’m surprised to have been overjoyed by the historical novel by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie titled My Dear Hamilton. It’s the fictional story of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, unsung wife of Alexander Hamilton. I read it because I am a history buff and don’t know as much as I ought to about the American Revolution, …
So far but yet so close
Pixabay Kings of Broken Things, Theodore Wheeler’s historical novel, is worth a read in the context of race relations today. Monte Dutton Set in the Omaha, Neb., at the end of World War I, amid racial tension, machine politics and, yes, broken things, the world is seen mostly through the eyes of immigrant teen refugee …
Memories are made of these …
Pixabay Clinton, S.C., May 19, 2021, 11:41 a.m. Maybe it was because Zoom calls (first time I’ve ever had two in one day), and business considerations, and other frustrations, too, devoured yesterday. This morning I sat in a booth at breakfast and got nostalgic about aromas. Monte Dutton I remembered how one grandparents’ house, on …
Nightrider's Lament 