As the cost of existing is steadily climbing and paychecks are most definitely NOT keeping up, I started thinking about the fact that I could not really afford a vacation. I'd heard about staying home to vacation and I started thinking about all of the places in Augusta I still haven't seen. (The thought process at the beach, as outlined in the column linked below, was very real. Except for frying little brains. That creative touch which bespeaks truth came later.)
I've never darkened the door to the Ezekiel Harris house because I'd heard that thirteen Civil War soldiers had once swung from the spiral staircase inside, and occasionally they hang around for old times' sake. Probably not true, but why take chances?
I missed my chance to see the golf hall of fame, and until the last few years never cared about walking down Magnolia Lane, not that that's an easy sight to see.
If I've never laid eyes on so many Augusta places that other people pay good money to see, surely there were plenty such treasures in North Augusta. It would be fun to find some. I desperately wanted to discover something fabulous and little known. I didn't.
It took two weeks to finish compiling the list of places to go....which was a week longer than it should have. For crying out loud, North Augusta is nice and all, but it is only so big!!
The column was a whim. If I'm going to tell people what to do, it's only right that I do it myself. Plus, I really did want to see if it would feel like a vacation. And no, I did not fully consider the fact that I chose to tackle it on a holiday. That would be my blonde streak showing again.
The story: http://natoday.augusta.com/node/3537
The column: http://natoday.augusta.com/node/3527
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Why I Love North Augusta
Perhaps its hokey to begin my first blog with this particular column, but it is also fitting. I am, after all, a reporter for North Augusta Today. To say anything other than that I love the city would be both biting the hand that feeds me and wholly untrue.
It was also the first of my stories to pop up under a Google search.
That said, I begin this blog as a showcase for my favorite stories as I travel my career path and as a forum for discussing my favorite aspects of my job.
I wrote sports features, most weeks, for The Augusta Chronicle for three years before moving to North Augusta Today in February 2007, and I certainly experienced memorable moments and have learned some interesting things. I will share them, in no particular order, along with links to the stories as they were published.
This column was written for NA Today's one year anniversary issue, which should have run in February 2008. For reasons I can't explain, our anniversary issue didn't actually publish until the end of April, to very little fanfare.
All year, residents told us what they love about North Augusta, whether we asked or not. Our staff thought it would be nice to pull quotes about North Augusta from some of our stories and re-run them. We also thought it would be a nice gesture from us to tell residents what we loved about their town, despite the fact that none of us actually lived there at the time. It was a fun piece for me to write, because I was able to use amounts of creativity and personal experience that are inappropriate in a news story.
http://natoday.augusta.com/node/3114
It was also the first of my stories to pop up under a Google search.
That said, I begin this blog as a showcase for my favorite stories as I travel my career path and as a forum for discussing my favorite aspects of my job.
I wrote sports features, most weeks, for The Augusta Chronicle for three years before moving to North Augusta Today in February 2007, and I certainly experienced memorable moments and have learned some interesting things. I will share them, in no particular order, along with links to the stories as they were published.
This column was written for NA Today's one year anniversary issue, which should have run in February 2008. For reasons I can't explain, our anniversary issue didn't actually publish until the end of April, to very little fanfare.
All year, residents told us what they love about North Augusta, whether we asked or not. Our staff thought it would be nice to pull quotes about North Augusta from some of our stories and re-run them. We also thought it would be a nice gesture from us to tell residents what we loved about their town, despite the fact that none of us actually lived there at the time. It was a fun piece for me to write, because I was able to use amounts of creativity and personal experience that are inappropriate in a news story.
http://natoday.augusta.com/node/3114
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