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COLUMN: Pisgah United Methodist in Florence attracts attention
Pisgah United Methodist is almost 100 years old, still cuts quite a figure.
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COLUMN: Florence of 1923: More horses, fewer banks
Once I went into a place that was selling what amounted to junk and found, priced at 50 cents, a 1922-23 Florence City Directory. It followed me home.
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COLUMN: Remembering the Dillon Dictator, Roger Scott
Roger Scott was a character as well as a politically involved person who had to be taken seriously.
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COLUMN: The short reign of Timmonsville's only governor
Charles Aurelius Smith is largely unknown around here and rarely appears in area or state histories.
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COLUMN: Bill Mills' final lesson: a hard-to-learn tune
There was an unusual abundance of music the other day at the funeral service for Bill Mills at Central Methodist Church. This certainly was appropriate.
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COLUMN: Symphony still sizzling at the PAC
Maybe I will get over it, but at the Francis Marion University Performing Arts Center I still feel like just being in that theater is worth an admission price.
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COLUMN: Symphony still sizzling at the PAC
Maybe I will get over it, but at the Francis Marion University Performing Arts Center I still feel like just being in that theater is worth an admission price.
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COLUMN: Symphony still sizzling at the PAC
PAC worth the price of admission all by itself.
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COLUMN: Journalism mostly about the company you keep
My wife and I once went to a Mullins funeral home visitation and were surprised by a very large crowd.
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COLUMN: Dream dying fast, but a real presidential convention would be fun
A real presidential nominating convention, with some actual intrigue, would be fun.
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THOM ANDERSON: Back issues of the Daily Times would help a lot
“Gone busted!” reads a handwritten note on an ad for the Florence Daily Times. It is in a 1925 City Directory at the Drs. Bruce & Lee Foundation County Library.
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COLUMN: Viewed from on high, downtown changes easy to spot
Having family in the hospital, I spent a lot of time lately looking out of the top floors of the McLeod Regional Medical Center buildings.
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COLUMN: Falling 'Star' offers glimpse of old-time Florence
Clippings from the old Florence Star newspaper.
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COLUMN: 'Stupid bug' Thom closes the book on 2011
Thom Anderson looks back on columns, responses, from 2011
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COLUMN: Your thumb was a good way to get around
I don’t recommend it now, but in the middle of the 20th century, I found hitchhiking an efficient and economical way to travel. Lots of other folks did, too, although it was not entirely socially acceptable even then.
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COLUMN: Santa vs. Martians and other holiday movie classics
Maybe it makes sense when there is economic difficulty and so much of the nation’s politics is based on anger and bitterness, that what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a poll ranking the worst Christmas movies of all time.
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COLUMN: Columns mark history, but don't always jog memories
I like occasionally to look back over columns I wrote for the Morning News. The other day I came across several columns from 1976 editions.
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COLUMN: Rita Jenrette was once S.C. new, now she's royalty
When The New Yorker magazine comes, I first check the cartoons, then decide what to read. Last week I nearly flipped past an article on “Her Serene Highness the Principessa Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi.” But I glanced at her picture, and when turning to the next page, I thought – wait a minute — this woman looks familiar.
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Dec. 7, 1941:an infamous day to sell newspapers
War-time memories of Pearl Harbor from our local columnnist
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COLUMN: 1940s assessment of U.S. meets 21st-century critique
He “has the limitations of all Americans of his type with little intellectual background, little genuine depth or coherent political philosophy; a man who has probably never bothered with abstract thought twice in his life… no more a statesman in the European sense than Typhoid Mary,” John Gunther wrote in “Inside USA,” a lengthy book reviewing his lengthy tour of the United States, studying most everything about the then-48 states.
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COLUMN: When Tiny Tim tiptoed through the newsroom
Memories of (sort of) famous visitors to the newsroom
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COLUMN: New York state visit offers glimpse at pop culture, history
While driving in New York state before meeting our party in the city, our sons Mark and Kyle and I visited Seneca Falls.
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COLUMN: For 'high class laundering,' just dial 77
Looking at an early 20th Century Florence Daily Times on microfilm at the Drs. Bruce & Lee Foundation Library, I found what appeared to be a bargain.
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COLUMN: Florence motorists drive me crazy
Not long ago a report came out from some group designating the metropolitan statistical area with America’s worst drivers.
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COLUMN: Rising debt is really Republicans' fault
GOP piled up debt under Reagan, Bush, so surely you can't blame Obama.
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