2025 has been a tough year for small colleges in the Carolinas. Two have closed, a third is in what looks like death throes, and then there’s a fourth on the brink, which we’ll get to in a minute. Down and out are St. Andrews, in Laurinburg, a hundred miles southwest of Raleigh in Scotland … Continue reading Guilford College: On the Brink
I never fell in love in a library. But several times I fell in love with a library, and the experience repeatedly changed my life. The first time came flooding back yesterday, when I saw this news report from AP: “Army and Air Force libraries have been told to go through their stacks to find … Continue reading Finding Love (& Living In Sin) In the Library
This weekend I was thinking about trouble at Guilford College, when a memory popped up: during my college years, a B- was not a bad grade. Okay, it wasn’t great, especially if you were aiming at the honor roll or grad school. But it was above a C; over the line (if just barely) into … Continue reading Guilford College in Crisis (Again? Yes.)
Late one spring morning in 1986, I was creeping along the edge of Ox Road, Virginia route 123, driving with one hand, and shoving mail into the boxes on posts with the other. I was a substitute rural mail carrier, working a route just south of the seemingly nonexistent town of Fairfax Station. Beyond the … Continue reading Henry Taylor: A Quaker Poet Departs — A Holiday Read
