Fred Morsell, the venerated actor who goes round the country playing Frederick Douglass in a one-man play, came to Sandhills Community College. He was another one of the top acts I saw. I got some people sore at me, including him, when my cell phone went off, playing that stupid ice-cream truck tune that I eventually changed. There's another one in this post, of Morsell with my old friend Mitch Capel.



Prize-winning novelist Jill McCorkle, in the red dress, with her sister, came to her birthplace in Lumberton in May.