I know around 6 p.m. on Thursday, December 1, 1955, the world changed.  When a department store seamstress named Rosa Parks simply refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, the world changed. I know at 1:25 p.m. on Thursday, March 25, 1965, the world changed.  When 25,000 people gathered at […]

As a former local chamber of commerce executive I was often asked, “what is it exactly that you do?”  My response was that our chamber is in the “community building” business.  In short, “community building” was my elevator speech/pitch. The concept of an elevator speech/pitch is the idea that your explanation of who you are […]

Everyone loves a good story.  And, we “Southerners” sure do love to tell a story.  Stories convey the fabric of who we really are, what we are like, how we see things and our perspectives.  And, in the South, we never let the truth get in the way of a good story.  Story-telling is serious […]