"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
My new favorite paper is North Carolina's Dunn Daily Record, which brings a Mayberryish panache to its coverage of the National Hollerin' Contest in Spivey's Corner, an annual event * which the paper covers like the morning dew.
The newspaper's other features include fish pictures, local good news rounded up by Hoover Adams under the heading These Little Things, and columnists like Bart Adams and the Old Master. Are they playing it entirely straight? Or are they having a bit of fun? You, sophisticated urban reader, be the judge.
* For more hollerin', consult a history of the art, with video and audio samples.
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