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My first grandchild had his 2nd birthday recently and his parents gave him a ukulele. My son asked me to tune it for him. I told him he was too young to appreciate the tuning but it was better just to let him get used to making sounds. The music might come later.
Published: Saturday, August 19th, 2017 @ 3:26 am
By: Bobby Tony
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As with most of my articles, this article started out as an argument with myself but quickly morphed into a lesson during this Christmas season.
Published: Friday, December 30th, 2016 @ 1:23 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Not one friend or relative of mine thinks that I am a passive person, but Microsoft Word says that I am and who can argue with Bill Gates.
Published: Sunday, September 18th, 2016 @ 4:04 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Educational fads always come with a shelf life; the implacable resistance of reality eventually makes them expire. Usually, the promised educational miracle has done more harm than good
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2016 @ 1:57 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Stella Marie Woolard Edwards, 88, died on August 28, 2016 at her residence at 1702 N. Market St., Washington, NC where she had lived for the past 40 years
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2016 @ 1:20 pm
By: Announcements
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Based on a recent experience I had with a text message, I thought about the interpretation of mood from text or email messages. text messages
Published: Wednesday, August 17th, 2016 @ 2:14 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Recently I coached a bright high school senior on how to get his college admission essay into shape
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 @ 7:28 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Students in English Instructor Jamie Johnson's Writing and Inquiry class have an additional component in their participation grade this semester. The class meets in person three times a week, but Johnson and her students are also utilizing Twitter as a way to communicate ideas and discuss topics...
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 2:38 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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How a book made me re-evaluate some of the events in my life.
Published: Sunday, September 6th, 2015 @ 2:29 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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It happens at the end of every semester. As final grades are computed and entered, faculty all across the United States hear those inner demons talking. Some expound quite loudly; others merely whisper.
Published: Friday, February 7th, 2014 @ 11:13 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Division of Continuing Education at Beaufort County Community College will offer a course in conversational Spanish Class 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays beginning Jan. 14 and ending March 18 in Room 826 of Building 8 on the BCCC campus.
Published: Saturday, January 4th, 2014 @ 1:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Suppose you sent your daughter to a music camp - an expensive camp lasting months. She had said that she wanted to learn the violin, so you bought a nice one and sent her off to camp. Upon her return, you ask how the camp was and she replies, "Great! We studied lots of stuff about music and the...
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2013 @ 4:41 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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If Beverly Perdue is not the worst governor in North Carolina's long history, she is at least the worst in recent memory. She even managed to surpass her predecessor, convicted felon Mike Easley.
Published: Monday, September 16th, 2013 @ 4:31 am
By: Thom Goolsby
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Today’s college freshmen can be trained to write well—and in one semester. I will describe one way it can be done.
Published: Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 @ 4:35 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Late registration for fall semester at Beaufort County Community College runs 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday. Classes begin Wednesday.
Published: Monday, August 13th, 2012 @ 11:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Edna Marie Williams Lewis left her worldly home Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, at Cross Creek Health Care facility. She was born to Miranda John Brinn and Cecil Norwood Williams on Oct. 30, 1920, at the Williams home place on North Lake Road.
Published: Saturday, October 29th, 2011 @ 8:29 pm
By: Announcements
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