The Locust Years
I stood at the starting line packing wind pants and cold-weather gear, because that’s what March in the mountains is supposed to look like. Instead, I got a three-day heat wave. My plan had been to run the full 110 miles. I’d trained for months, prayed over it, circled the date on my calendar. But […]
Memorial Day: Honoring the Ultimate Sacrifice
On May 1, 1865—just weeks after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox on April 9, effectively ending the Civil War—a remarkable event unfolded in Charleston, South Carolina. During the final year of the war, Confederate forces had converted the elite Washington Race Course and Jockey Club, a popular horse-racing track for planters, into […]