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Life Is a Miracle

Life Is a Miracle

March 11, 2014

Perhaps Kentucky’s most famous living writer, Wendell Berry, has created in his Port William stories a rural community of folks trying to make sense...

Bolin: Conflicted loyalties

Bolin: Conflicted loyalties

March 6, 2014

It is that time of year for me to be conflicted again, and it looks as if I had better get used to it. Yes, every time the OVC men’s basketball tournament...

Bolin: In awe of the ordinary

Bolin: In awe of the ordinary

February 26, 2014

Do you always get caught up in “the next big thing”? I know I do. The danger for me is that while I am always on the lookout for whatever that “next...

Bolin: Tragic Premonition

Bolin: Tragic Premonition

February 23, 2014

And so on or near April 4th of this Spring semester, I will try to do what I have done in my history classes to commemorate a turning point event in my...

Book signing for Sid Easley and “A Courthouse Tragedy”

Book signing for Sid Easley and “A Courthouse Tragedy”

February 12, 2014

With this column I want to tell Murray State students, faculty and staff about an opportunity to meet and hear a local writer and friend of the University....

Reminiscing on the many joys of winter

Reminiscing on the many joys of winter

February 7, 2014

A good, deep snow purifies the air, clears the mind and beautifies the landscape. I tell people how I yearn for snow, and they look at me as they often...

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Wesley Bolin announced he is running against Ed Whitfield for a seat in congress.

Student runs for Congress: 25-year-old Wesley Bolin faces incumbent

February 7, 2014

Murray State student Wesley Bolin announced his candidacy for Congress from Kentucky's First District. Bolin, 25-year-old Democrat and history major...

A Kentuckian in the city of dreaming spires

A Kentuckian in the city of dreaming spires

January 31, 2014

In the days approaching my second trip to England, I thought about how out-of-place I would be, a middle-aged man from a small town in western Kentucky...

Bolin: Two Jacks gone, but neither forgotten

Bolin: Two Jacks gone, but neither forgotten

November 22, 2013

The final bell sounded at Oaklawn Elementary School in Fort Worth, Texas, that Friday afternoon, Nov. 22, 1963, 50 years ago. I ran out to the curb where...

Remembering Murray State’s own Arlie Scott

Remembering Murray State’s own Arlie Scott

November 15, 2013

Because Arlie Scott taught 35 years as a professor of agriculture here at Murray State and because he served his country in such an extraordinary fashion,...

Bolin: Living life to the fullest requires knowledge of our past

Bolin: Living life to the fullest requires knowledge of our past

November 8, 2013

There he stood. Under a basket at Princeton University’s Dillon Gymnasium, in his basketball practice uniform. Still sweating from a demanding workout....

Bolin: Students must follow their bliss, live as they are meant to live

Bolin: Students must follow their bliss, live as they are meant to live

November 1, 2013

I always wondered if my father would have wished that my brother and I would follow him in his twin callings of pharmacist and minister. We both, my...

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