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Haw River: a short memoir and a book review

March 3, 2021March 2, 2021 26 Comments by jgarrison

Haw River 1975 I pause, standing in the door of the gas station at the edge of Pittsboro, a Coke in one hand and a pack of peanuts in the other. Ripping open the peanuts with my teeth, I shake a few from the bag into my mouth, chasing it with a swig from the … Read more Haw River: a short memoir and a book review


Categories Blog, Reviews

Once Upon A River

November 20, 2019 8 Comments by jgarrison

Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon a River (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011), 348 pages.   I enjoyed this novel even though it was hard to get through the opening part which included an incestuous rape of Margo, a teenage girl. I almost put the book down. However, Campbell never glamorized the sex scenes in the … Read more Once Upon A River


Categories Blog, Poetry

The Ebeneezer Cotillion

June 24, 2019 12 Comments by jgarrison

  I spent last week at a church camp at the Ebeneezer Retreat Center near Rincon, Georgia. I led the outdoor activities for the youth, which included taking the middle and high school youth on a canoe trip. While they paddled in the channel, I would often paddle through the cypress to get ahead of … Read more The Ebeneezer Cotillion


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