Pat Taylor
Recent Stories
Quite a Surprise Visit from the Tax Man
Many of us who grew up in a simpler time worry that government has grown so large and complex that it is no longer manageable. A good example of this concern came up recently when the N.C. Department of Revenue dipped into my daughter's bank accounts - unannounced - over a tax return from 2008.
Awash in an Sea of New Technology
I t started as a tiny trickle and over the years became a flood. What once seemed like the root of modern salvation has grown to be a tangled laurel hell, binding time and energy to itself, often with no discernable gain in our quality of life. It is both a blessing and, increasingly, a curse. Amazingly, we're probably still on the front end of its development.
Morgan’s Book Valuable Addition to Historical Record of U.S.
For most Americans, the period between 1803, when the Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the U.S., and 1850, when the California gold rush was at a frenzy, is a blank canvas.
Morgan's Book Valuable Addition to Historical Record
Lions of the West
Shaara Tells War Stories Through the Eyes of Those Who Have Lived Them
In typical fashion, historical novelist Jeff Shaara has again taken his readers to the frontlines of a major military operation, this time to the island of Okinawa, near the end of World War II.
River Is Old, but Interlopers Are New
A river still runs through Ashe County, as it has since the African continent and the Americas collided 500,000,000 years ago and pushed up the mountains called the Blue Ridge. The New River defines Ashe as much as the mountains that surround it, and is better known. The New is but a riffle here, easy paddling with few rapids and none of consequence.
A Book Filled With Complex Characters
It’s a complex web John Hart weaves here, a tale full of mixed-up characters with holes in their souls.
A Book Filled with Complex Characters
BY PAT TAYLOR
Guide Packed With Information
When you need information in a hurry, there’s still no better way to find it than a guidebook.
Holding History Up to Your Shoulder
For most people, history lives in a dusty world inhabited by small, bespectacled men in brown suits sitting alone in spaces lit by large windows, poring over ancient text.
