Stories by Bill Kirby

Monday, May 14, 2012

Give advice to area grads

Thou­sands of area high school students will be graduating in the weeks ahead. What would you like to tell them?
By Bill Kirby

Saturday, May 12, 2012

A fire forgotten by all

No one seems to remember the 1920 fire that almost destroyed Augusta's courthouse.
By Bill Kirby

Thursday, May 10, 2012

I get e-mail in every language

I don't know about you, but I am beginning to get computer e-mail "spam" in foreign languages. Some of it appears Arabic. Some Spanish. Even Chinese.
By Bill Kirby

Monday, May 7, 2012

History makes a point

I find it amazing to hold something in my hand that someone made thousands of years ago. Saturday I learned that anything that old is not an “arrowhead,” but some sort of spear point.
By Bill Kirby

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Marriage and baseball are alike

Marriage, it seems, is most like baseball because you find its sincerest satisfaction when you choose a team and stick with it.
By Bill Kirby

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Pet stories can aid conversation

So I was at the Augusta History Museum's Brown Bag lunch Wednesday and the people at my table were kind enough to ask about my two little terriers.
By Bill Kirby

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

TV newsman Tom Campbell dies

Tom Campbell, a longtime television newsman and anchor at WRDW-TV, died Wednesady after a yearlong battle with cancer.
By Bill Kirby

Monday, April 30, 2012

Kirby: History can be funny

History’s a funny thing. It’s also tragic, serious, sad and deadly. But I like the funny parts because the good guys win, nobody gets hurt and we all can laugh at someone else’s foolishness.
By Bill Kirby

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Tech offers trip down Memory Lane

Online maps and their street view features can provide a trip down Memory Lane.
By Bill Kirby

Friday, April 27, 2012

'Augusta Chronicle' names new executive editor

John Gogick has been named executive editor of The Augusta Chronicle, succeeding Alan English, who has been promoted to vice president of audience.
By Bill Kirby

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Texting stumps smart phone

Wife calls me at work. I can hear her shaking papers in background. It's the family phone bill, I am told.
By Bill Kirby

Monday, April 23, 2012

Augustas are easy to mix up

The Kennebec Journal reported that an effort to send petitions to Augusta National Golf Club over its membership policy got the wrong name, the wrong place and the wrong state.
By Bill Kirby

Saturday, April 21, 2012

America was founded on the need for stuff

Let me simplify American history. We are a nation, a society, an economic system founded on the acquisition of stuff.
By Bill Kirby

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Kirby: Prank sidesteps birthday song

If you're like me, you hate it when anyone at a restaurant plays or sings Happy Birthday for you.
By Bill Kirby

Monday, April 16, 2012

Baseball is relaxing at the ballpark

The GreenJackets opened at home this weekend and I was back in my Lake Olmstead Stadium element.
By Bill Kirby

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Think again about party plans

Many things divide the genders and cake-and-candle-day is one of them.
By Bill Kirby

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Old buildings plagued by more than leaks

I have long maintained that the Richmond County Jail be removed not because it encourages escape attempts, but because it justifies them.
By Bill Kirby

Monday, April 9, 2012

Hit-and-run driver strike again

As they say, yesterday is experience; tomorrow is hope; today is getting from one to the other.
By Bill Kirby

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Kirby: Augustan's muddy Madonna

A story for this morning. In 1909, an Augusta businessman opened an office in downtown Atlanta. His name was T. Harry Oates and, like his father before him, he dealt in musical equipment.
By Bill Kirby

Friday, April 6, 2012

Collection of golfers on stamps is small

A lot of stamp collectors focus on themes, but if yours is golf, you have a pretty small collection. The best I can tell, only three golfers have been honored with an image on a U.S. postage stamp.
By Bill Kirby
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Potential merger names could be revealed in July

Three potential names for the consolidated university that will replace ASU and GHSU might be revealed in mid-July, officials said Wednesday.
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