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The Davis Path
Introduction
1. Scotland
2. Carolina
3. Sarah
4. Slave-owners
5. Civil War
6. A Place Called Allis
7. A Turn Toward Education
8. Oma Grier, Mabel and 'the work'
9. 'Our Black Friends'
10. House of Oma
11. Little Rock
Commentary
The Zoom campaign
Disqualifying Trump
Blues and Roots, part 2
Blues and Roots, part 1
Life, death and politics
Winning in North Carolina
Trump's Life of Crime
Organizing to Win
Winning the Midterms
Taking on the new Republicans
Watching Kabul Fall
Trump's legacy, in three posts
Testing time for America
Pulled over and scarred for life
Marching for Eurie
History in the Remaking
Eurie Stamps and the police
The View from Key West
Fixing the primaries
The damage Trump has done
A vote for Elizabeth Warren
Yosemite's endangered giants
Welcome to the Tenderloin
Electability and Joe Biden
Woodstock and the Class of '69
A riot to be proud of
Trump and Lee on Monument Ave.
View from the Truck
Walking the Civil Rights Trail
Joined by a border
Jim Crow and the Green Book hotels
Life and death in the Gunshine State
Facing Florida's Ugly Past
Removing the Indians
The Ghosts on the Hill
The three states of Tennessee
The Heroes of Little Rock
The Power of Cotton
The Battles of 'Bloody Mingo'
The Shadow of Coal
America's Founding Scientists
The Power of America's Stories
Playing the game in Atlantic City
America's First Traitor
Remember the Forgotten Coast
The Return of Psychedelics
See you at the polls
Small Towns and 'real Americans'
Conversations With Trees
Alaska: Russians, Americans and 229 tribes
Salmon and Stewardship
Front-row Witness to Disaster
The Politics of a Mountain's Name
Big State, Little State
Don't Buy the Narratives
More united than you think
A 'livelie experiment' in freedom
Massacre in the Great Swamp
From Graceland to MAGA
The War After the War
Trouble at the Red Hen
What the flag asks of us
Giving Voters a Second Choice
Buffalo, then and now
Join the parade
Kansas Republicans
Dancing with wolves
Hard times in the Rust Belt
Jayhawkers, Bushwhackers and a First Amendment Martyr
Highway to nowhere
On the Cannabis Train
Show the National Parks some love
History and legend in the Wild West
Love and Voting
When Poverty Was a Priority
Teaching Jefferson Davis' History
No Place for a Wall
Austin: Sanctuary City
Can Beto flip Texas?
Time of the Kingfish
More than Mardi Gras
Mississippi Delta blues
Holding off extinction
The guns of Fort Pickens
Jimmy Carter, Southern man
Black history is American history
Pin Point's American Story
Finding Hope Along the Road
Charleston, where the past is always present
One nation, divisible
Report from Cape Fear
Telling Wilmington's Secrets
Trouble Under the Dome
The new face of Old Virginia
John Brown's Missing Bell
Dark days in Puerto Rico
Of Moose and Men
The Dark History of Witch City
Beyond Identity Politics
Rockefeller's roads and the trail to the summit
The mill, the mountain and the monument
Politics and introspection at Yale
Back on Campus
Revisiting Reconstruction
Politics under the Big Sky
Tell everyone's story
Smoke in the Big Sky
Where the living is easy
Malaga Island and Africatown
The Opioid Emergency
The ghosts of Gettysburg
The Rust Belt's shiny buckle
The 100-mile view
Saratoga's faint echoes
The healing powers of vacation
Tinkering with legalization
Where the hippies won
Another defeat for Robert E. Lee
The divided states of America
A spring heat wave in Maine
In search of great trees
Opposition vs. Inspiration
Your brain on drugs
What's up Down East
The intentional tourist
Journalism vs. propaganda
Master of the seas
America's original divide
Finding America in its music
A presidential history lesson
Same pew, different churches
Who'll patch up America?
Time for this editor to hit the road
The president we'll miss
The tests facing Trump
2016: Weirdest year ever?
Attack of the smartphones
The endocannabinoid revolution
Take down the POW flags
About
Road trip
Gallery
Contact

Rick Holmes

Home
The Davis Path
Introduction
1. Scotland
2. Carolina
3. Sarah
4. Slave-owners
5. Civil War
6. A Place Called Allis
7. A Turn Toward Education
8. Oma Grier, Mabel and 'the work'
9. 'Our Black Friends'
10. House of Oma
11. Little Rock
Commentary
The Zoom campaign
Disqualifying Trump
Blues and Roots, part 2
Blues and Roots, part 1
Life, death and politics
Winning in North Carolina
Trump's Life of Crime
Organizing to Win
Winning the Midterms
Taking on the new Republicans
Watching Kabul Fall
Trump's legacy, in three posts
Testing time for America
Pulled over and scarred for life
Marching for Eurie
History in the Remaking
Eurie Stamps and the police
The View from Key West
Fixing the primaries
The damage Trump has done
A vote for Elizabeth Warren
Yosemite's endangered giants
Welcome to the Tenderloin
Electability and Joe Biden
Woodstock and the Class of '69
A riot to be proud of
Trump and Lee on Monument Ave.
View from the Truck
Walking the Civil Rights Trail
Joined by a border
Jim Crow and the Green Book hotels
Life and death in the Gunshine State
Facing Florida's Ugly Past
Removing the Indians
The Ghosts on the Hill
The three states of Tennessee
The Heroes of Little Rock
The Power of Cotton
The Battles of 'Bloody Mingo'
The Shadow of Coal
America's Founding Scientists
The Power of America's Stories
Playing the game in Atlantic City
America's First Traitor
Remember the Forgotten Coast
The Return of Psychedelics
See you at the polls
Small Towns and 'real Americans'
Conversations With Trees
Alaska: Russians, Americans and 229 tribes
Salmon and Stewardship
Front-row Witness to Disaster
The Politics of a Mountain's Name
Big State, Little State
Don't Buy the Narratives
More united than you think
A 'livelie experiment' in freedom
Massacre in the Great Swamp
From Graceland to MAGA
The War After the War
Trouble at the Red Hen
What the flag asks of us
Giving Voters a Second Choice
Buffalo, then and now
Join the parade
Kansas Republicans
Dancing with wolves
Hard times in the Rust Belt
Jayhawkers, Bushwhackers and a First Amendment Martyr
Highway to nowhere
On the Cannabis Train
Show the National Parks some love
History and legend in the Wild West
Love and Voting
When Poverty Was a Priority
Teaching Jefferson Davis' History
No Place for a Wall
Austin: Sanctuary City
Can Beto flip Texas?
Time of the Kingfish
More than Mardi Gras
Mississippi Delta blues
Holding off extinction
The guns of Fort Pickens
Jimmy Carter, Southern man
Black history is American history
Pin Point's American Story
Finding Hope Along the Road
Charleston, where the past is always present
One nation, divisible
Report from Cape Fear
Telling Wilmington's Secrets
Trouble Under the Dome
The new face of Old Virginia
John Brown's Missing Bell
Dark days in Puerto Rico
Of Moose and Men
The Dark History of Witch City
Beyond Identity Politics
Rockefeller's roads and the trail to the summit
The mill, the mountain and the monument
Politics and introspection at Yale
Back on Campus
Revisiting Reconstruction
Politics under the Big Sky
Tell everyone's story
Smoke in the Big Sky
Where the living is easy
Malaga Island and Africatown
The Opioid Emergency
The ghosts of Gettysburg
The Rust Belt's shiny buckle
The 100-mile view
Saratoga's faint echoes
The healing powers of vacation
Tinkering with legalization
Where the hippies won
Another defeat for Robert E. Lee
The divided states of America
A spring heat wave in Maine
In search of great trees
Opposition vs. Inspiration
Your brain on drugs
What's up Down East
The intentional tourist
Journalism vs. propaganda
Master of the seas
America's original divide
Finding America in its music
A presidential history lesson
Same pew, different churches
Who'll patch up America?
Time for this editor to hit the road
The president we'll miss
The tests facing Trump
2016: Weirdest year ever?
Attack of the smartphones
The endocannabinoid revolution
Take down the POW flags
About
Road trip
Gallery
Contact
Richard Holmes
September 19, 2017

An update by podcast

Richard Holmes
September 19, 2017

I joined Caitlyn Kelleher of GateHouse Media on her Extra! Extra podcast the other day, talking about opinion writing and my current travels. You can listen to it here:

http://www.wickedlocal.com/…/listen-columnist-rick-holmes-t…

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