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May 14, 2024 | 
ourdavie.com | Mike Barnhardt |Mark Hager
Restored B29 brings back memories for Mocksville WWII vet Published 12:31 pm Tuesday, May 14, 2024 Sheek Bowden takes a peek at great-granddaughter Capron Wooldridge inside of the B29.- Photo by Mark Hager Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Mark HagerPresident, Forks of theYadkin and DavieCounty History MuseumWorld War II veteran Leo Sheek Bowden Jr. was given a special tour of a B29 Superfortress Bomber. The bomber is called Doc.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
echelon.lk | Mark Hager
SaturdayRain came chucking down. Lightning flickered and thunder grumbled. Two daddies, three mommies and four tween/teen boys faced the reality that our safari was effectively over. The approaching early dusk only deepened the gloom as we raced and skidded on the bumpy, slippery track from the far end of Block One back toward the main entrance. It took nearly an hour to reach the gate, just a few seconds before official closing time. Being late could have cost our driver a fine.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
echelon.lk | Mark Hager
Nothing…nothing…THERE!! A distant white smudge blurs a space on the horizon: spray from a blue whale coming to surface. Our boat moves toward it and soon we can see more and more whale above the waves. Biggest animals ever, blue whales abound on Lanka’s southern porch. I spent a morning on a boat, watching as three blues dove, tails up, then re-surfaced minutes later, spouting exhalations to catch their breath.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Faiza Venzant |Rithika Ramamurthy |Mark Hager |Vincent Bevins
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
nonprofitquarterly.org | Rebekah Barber |Faiza Venzant |Isaiah Thompson |Mark Hager
A commonly uttered phrase in movement organizing spaces is: “Those who are closest to the problem are closest to the solutions.” Yet, too often, those with lived experiences are left out of the decision-making process. Such is the case for formerly incarcerated people. Both men experienced how easy it is for young Black men to be swept up in the criminal legal system.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
ourdavie.com | Mike Barnhardt |Mark Hager
Published 1:04 pm Tuesday, December 5, 2023 By Mark HagerPresident, Forksof the Yadkin and DavieCounty History MuseumBefore the Green Bay Packers became the first back-to-back Super Bowl champions under the coaching of Vince Lombardi, Davie County made national news. In 1960 and 1961, Davie native Paul Walker won back-to-back national field trial championships through two bird dogs – Home Again Mike and Spacemaster. Both were from the American Field Haberdasher line of English Pointers.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
economynext.com | Mark Hager
An Echelon Media Company Wednesday November 15th, 2023 Nothing…nothing…THERE!! A distant white smudge blurs a space on the horizon: spray from a blue whale coming to surface. Our boat moves toward it and soon we can see more and more whale above the waves. Biggest animals ever, blue whales abound on Lanka’s southern porch. I spent a morning watching as three blues separately dove, tail up, then re-surfaced minutes later, spouting exhalations to catch breath.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
ourdavie.com | Mike Barnhardt |Mark Hager
Published 7:49 am Monday, November 6, 2023 By Mark HagerPresident, Forks of theYadkin Davie CountyHistory MuseumA Davie County museum is in the works, and the sale of a print of a Mocksville structure will help with the funding. The historic J.P. Green Milling Company (1813-2021) painting, by local artist Donald Hursey, is being re-printed by the Naylor family. Prints will be available on Nov. 10 at the Forks of the Yadkin and Davie County Museum office at 34 Court Square Mocksville.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
echelon.lk | Mark Hager
The discussion above has pursued three overarching objectives: to highlight the existence and nature of a persistent problematic in modern Indian thought, that of considering religious themes alongside socialist ones; to offer interpretations of the various thinkers examined in terms of this problematic; and to explicate the development of Gandhian socialism as the quintessential resolution of it. If the discussion above accomplishes these objectives, there is little to add here.
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Jul 11, 2023 | 
economynext.com | Mark Hager
This excerpt reproduces Chapter Eight from Mark Hager’s recently-published book, ‘Elusive Ideology: Religion and Socialism in Modern Indian Thought.’ Previous excerpts have appeared in Echelon and EconomyNext since August 2022. Readers can find the book through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Barefoot Cafe, Expographic Books and Sarasavi Bookshop(s)Privileged by pedigree and ambitiously inquisitive, Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) was born in Allahabad, in a well-to-do Brahmin family.
