“Unfortunately for the South there has always been an ingrained prejudice against mechanics,” lamented the editor of the Wilmington Morning Star in February 1885 in…
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Editor’s Note: Community Commentary is a new column in The Mount Airy News, featuring commentary from community leaders in Mount Airy and Surry County. There…
We greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am so blessed to be here, and so are you. Even, if you…
“Ze Plane, ze plane!” Those words always signaled the start of another episode of “Fantasy Island,” the TV show than ran on ABC-TV from 1977…
For me, this story begins at the end. With an obituary. “William Alfred Moore, born January 19th, 1830 and who died Sunday, November 7th (1909),…
To say the first broadcast of WPAQ radio was eagerly anticipated by those in the listening area would be an understatement. The lobby was packed…
Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected folk tales, which they published in two volumes called “Children’s and Household Tales.” You heard many of these cautionary…
This region is criss-crossed with dozens of streams that empty into the Yadkin River which forms our southern border. More than 215 miles long, it…
You know Guy Ritchie even if you think you don’t. He’s the British film director who used to be married to Madonna. You’ve bought tickets…
This month is the beginning of Surry County’s 250th birthday. Sort of. There are few written records that remain from this area during Colonial Days…