Hal Crowther
OA columnist Hal Crowther lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, with his wife, the author Lee Smith.
Articles by Hal Crowther
Fourth and Long: In the shadows of our goal posts.
Southerners now claim a lion's share—a liar's share?—of the glory and shame that accompany the cult of coaches and the myth of the student athlete. Yet we surely didn't invent them.
Bible Belt Blues
They call it the Global Village. Nothing goes unobserved, nothing is without distant consequences. A man throws a rock in Pretoria, another man ducks in Helsinki. The world's all wired, or wireless-I have no idea how any of it works, mechanically. This willful ignorance is appalling, even in an English major of Medicare age, but it's grounded in an invincible lack of interest. Call our technophobia innovation fatigue. You may find it's chronic in my generation. Though we can't fathom microchips, we don't pretend we're not stunned by their impact.
