Editor’s Note: See also: Ron Howard: What I Learned from Andy Griffith in the Los Angeles Times Ron Howard says co-star Andy Griffith was a leader, a mentor and coach in the New York Daily News
OLNEY, Md. – The South — and the world — mourns today following news of Andy Griffith’s demise. The 86-year-old came into our homes more than half a century on this newfangled contraption called TV. He made us laugh, a LOT, and brought the down-home goodness of Mayberry into the American conscious. Sure, Andy Griffith…
David Leroy Sitton Sr., an honorable man who served his community nearly his entire life, died Dec. 31, 2010. This Christian man from North Little Rock lived 72 years. (Continue)
Around the South by Ronald Sitton As the academic calendar rolls, summer recedes. Now’s the time to say goodbye to your favorite beach and prepare for the fall onslaught. Of course, that means back-to-school specials. For those planning to get a post-secondary education, the Princeton Review named 141 colleges and universities as “Best Southeastern Colleges”…
We do not cover a lot of celebrity, tabloid-style news on this Web Press, but it’s different if we know someone who pops up in the news, especially when that someone dies tragically and unexpectedly. Brad Renfro, the young actor from Knoxville, Tennessee who broke into the movies from a DARE theater program for troubled…
AP Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer shown at a lecture entitled ‘The 20th Century on Trial’ at the New York Public Library on June 27, 2007. by Glynn Wilson It is hard to believe Norman Mailer is dead. I just met him in September on a subway ride from Manhattan to Brooklyn, and I had…