Ron Morris retired in 2006 after 32 years as a zoo curator, the last 24 years at the NC Zoological Park in Asheboro, NC. He has led eco-safaris to many countries and traveled extensively in Africa, Australia, Europe, Latin America, the US, and Caribbean. Ron is past-president of Audubon Society of Forsyth County. He co-authors the Winston-Salem Journal column Bird’s Eye View with Phil Dickinson.
Cynthia Bradger d.b.a. Big Mama’s Southern Cooking with Soul learned to stretch a dollar and a meal as an 11 year-old when she cooked for her family in Ft. Worth, Texas. “It is just the way we had to do things back then in order to get by.” In high school, she was a flute player; but because there was not a uniform big enough to fit her, she was awarded the position of “band…
I would have probably never articulated this on my own except for an occasion of heightened awareness by photographing a recent performance by David Holt, Bryan Sutton, and T. Michael Coleman. They have started a band called "Deep River Rising" to perpetuate the musical traditions of Doc Watson, so they are still in the "getting acquainted with each other" phase of discovery to determine if they have a future together. My wife and I have known David for years but never played…
