And still more about the Bennetts, plus four annoying guys, of whom (alas) I was one.

How one of the most important events in American history happened in a poor little house in North Carolina.

Meeting the Bennetts, a working class family of the rural South...in a war.

As you know, I’m in New England. In fact, we just got to the Boston-area. But, I also promised I would try to keep the Durham story in...

And thus we have a perfect, linear progression: genocide, slavery, war, and, finally, a plague of cancer...

Some notes on the fabulous Doris Duke (1912-1993)

Strangely enough, I have a (very, very, very) distant connection to the Duke family. Sorta. In a way.

All about the origin of the Duke fortune and good old Durham, N.C.