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Richard Petty and Me, Chapter 4″The Year of The Thumpers”

To begin this chapter, I need to point out that attendance and short track races with my Uncle Bobby and[…]

The news of the convertible division didn’t normally make out local newspaper, but we were able to find out Richard[…]

My memory of the Draft taking Bobby away is limited at best. I was just 8 years old when Bobby[…]

I considered, only for a moment, entitling this story “The King and I”. Unfortunately, that title had already been taken[…]

My mind can take me down some pretty twisty rabbit holes, given half the chance. Here’s how one of them[…]

I have often told the story of how my Grandfather Dewey, and my Uncle Bobby, 11 years older than I,[…]

(Eventually, I’m going to work some history in here. It’s way down below.) Now that we’re done with two consecutive[…]

We all know that institutional/corporate histories focus on the good stuff, maintaining/enhancing the “brand,” as it were. Most people who[…]

There are times in life that are frozen in your memory forever. The immensity of the moment etches its every[…]

I’m stepping way out of my comfort zone for this one. I grew up more than 500 miles from Atlanta,[…]