By MONTE DUTTON Not Stonehenge (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I’ve not been a globetrotter. I’ve not even been a county trotter. Or a trotter at all. I did drive to Newberry on Wednesday, though, for a long overdue visit with a friend. Dr. Jodie Peeler, communications program director at Newberry College, and I had …
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Not just another war novel
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Millions fought in World War II. Thousands were taken prisoner. Thousands of works of fiction have been written. Silver Wings, Iron Cross by Tom Young thus becomes plausible amid the sheer numbers of the conflagration. If such a story never happened, perhaps it should have. In the waning days of …
The best account of the best
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. The hereafter is where old race fans debate the merits of Curtis Turner, Junior Johnson and Fireball Roberts. Some young NASCAR fans weren’t born when Dale Earnhardt met his maker. Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Rusty Wallace have their adherents, not to mention those of my age who also recognize …
Baseball hopes rise for county’s best
By MONTE DUTTON Owen Glenn (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Both Laurens and Clinton highs experienced early disappointments in baseball region play. The Raiders lost three straight to Fountain Inn (21-5, 13-2), and the Red Devils fell twice to Mid-Carolina (18-7, 10-0). Neither has lost in region play since, and as such, optimism rises as …
Blue Hose struggle in Virginia
(PC photo) Click here. Presbyterian College, which for a day (April 5) was atop the Big South standings, lost the first two of a three-game baseball series in Radford, Va. The Blue Hose have dropped four games in a row. Entering Saturday’s games, PC now trails High Point (27-12, 11-3) by three games and USC …
Clinton takes care of Raiders in softball
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Clinton claimed the Laurens County championship in softball by defeating Laurens, 22-6, on Wednesday evening. The Red Devils won the first game between the rivals, 7-2, on March 14. Third baseman Kamryn Campell went 5/5 with base hits in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth innings. …
Porter’s Bronze Derby tribute is a keeper
By MONTE DUTTON (Maudlin Pond Press) Click here. I have been remiss in overlooking Chip Porter’s significant book, which, in a way, isn’t a book at all. The Little Bronze Derby That Was! is a scrapbook that tells the remarkable story of the lost, much lamented football rivalry between Presbyterian and Newberry colleges, contested for …
I’m on a Slippery Slope My Ownself
Clinton, South Carolina, Wednesday, June 26, 2019, 11:50 a.m. My greatest flaw is absentmindedness. Fortunately, I am also meticulous. How do these competing atributes exist in the same body? This has thus far been a frantic week, and there’s no good reason for it. It’s “the summertime when the weather is hot, you can stretch …
Just Some Writer Staring at the Wall
Clinton, South Carolina, Saturday, April 13, 2019, 2:27 p.m. It has not been uncommon for me to express the belief that the biggest problem facing writers is simple. More and more people write, and less and less people read. It’s sort of a double-edged sword, particularly if one happens to write books. Getting them published …
It Could Be Worse, but It Could Be Better
Clinton, South Carolina, Sunday, April 1, 2018, 4:48 p.m. On Saturday morning, I left a couple small crises behind me as I drove down U.S. 76 to Newberry College, there to join my friends Brent and Sharon Sanders to watch their daughter, Hailey, play women’s lacrosse for Tusculum College against the Wolves. This was my …
Nightrider's Lament 