Margaret Mitchell Comes to Charleston
Mrs. John Marsh, The World Knew Her As Margaret Mitchell is a play written and produced more than twenty years ago by Atlanta playwright Melita Easters. In 2010, it was rediscovered and has been produced in prestigious venues throughout the South — Atlanta’s Margaret Mitchell House and Ansley Park Playhouse — and at the Players Club in New York. May 24th through June 7th it begins a run at the Piccolo Spoleto...
Music Man — Rick Clark
Anyone who has ever listened to a CD from the Oxford American Magazine’s annual Southern music issue has probably thought, “The guy who picks this song list is a genius!” It turns out THE GUY is Rick Clark who lives in one of our favorite towns, Columbia, Tennessee. Here’s a recent article about Rick: http://validitymag.com/2013/12/tennessee-music-from-the-heart-of-columbia/...
Bubba Returns
Bubba Watson’s win at the Northern Trust Open — at the historic Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades — is his first win since the 2012 Masters. The win returns him to number 14 on the Official World Golf rankings. Born in Florida, Watson played golf at Faulkner State Community College before transferring to the University of Georgia. At Georgia, he was a member of the team that won the SEC title in 2000....
Richard Bradford — Texas via London
One of the most overlooked actors of all time — Richard Bradford. star of Man in a Suitcase, a 1967/68 British television import broadcast on ABC. Bradford was a Texan who had a football scholarship to Texas A&M before injuring himself. He then tried baseball at Texas State but he didn’t attend enough classes to stay on the team, so he decided to try New York. He was admitted to the Actors Studio which led to his...
The Making of a Sportsman — Jim Gasque
Jim Gasque’s Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smokies, first published in 1948, was part of the thirty-one title series “Borzoi Books for Sportsmen” printed by Alfred A. Knopf from 1943 to 1955. This handsomely produced collection of sporting books, with covers of gilt lettering on silk, featured the top outdoor writers of mid-twentieth century America – Jack, O’Connor, Van Campen Heilner, and Ray Bergman to name three....
Pat O’Neall – Shooting Dog Classic
Pat O’Neall of Hatchechubbee, Alabama, host of the John O’Neall, Jr. Memorial Amateur Shooting Dog Classic — 86 years young and still riding in bird dog field trials. Pictured here with Charlie Tombras and Dr. Fred Moody....