Category: Editorials
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Finding Strength in Song: Alyssa Cashwell’s Music Journey
By: Lauren Hutchens At Salem College, creativity takes many forms, but for 20-year-old student Alyssa Cashwell, music has become both a passion and a source of healing. As an interior design major with a business minor, Cashwell balances her artistic eye for spaces with her love for writing and performing songs. Her journey with music…
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Traveling Troubadours: “When Dawn Breaks In Dublin.”
Words and Photographs By: Clare Buchanan “I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin, I can get to the heart of all the cities in the world. In the particular is contained the universal.” – James Joyce I arrived in Dublin off a train from Belfast. I’ve wanted…
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Traveling Troubadours: “Tiocfaidh ár lá!”
Words and Photographs By: Clare Buchanan Tiocfaidh ár lá. Our day will come. … March came suddenly. After two months of feeling like I was in a standstill, trapped in the East Midlands of England, nursing the sores of my past in the empty, grandiose halls of a Jacobean manor, I found myself clinging onto…
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Traveling Troubadours: “The Seedy Underbelly of St. Ives.”
By: Clare Buchanan St. Ives is a charming port town nestled on a small peninsula overlooking the sea in Cornwall. Named after Saint Ia, an Irish princess and missionary who arrived on the peninsula on a giant leaf in the 5th century, St. Ives exists today as a celebration of nautical tradition and offers some…
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Are You on the Right Side of History?: A Commentary on Gender and Sexuality
By Sophie Kazmierczak Historically, those in power who have strongly opposed the queer community, have never been and never will be the good guys. It is no mystery that people with differing sexual identities have existed since the dawn of time. The spectrum of sexuality will continue to grow and evolve along with the people it…
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Traveling Troubadours: “London Calling”
By: Clare Buchanan I’ve dreamt of London my whole life. I don’t know which Hugh Grant rom-com was my first introduction to the city. Was it Bridget Jones’ Diary? Maybe it was About A Boy, or it could have been Notting Hill. My mom showed me all of the classics. I might have fallen in…
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Traveling Troubadours: “Sign of a Salemite”
By: Clare Buchanan I left Los Angeles in a hurry. I usually leave Los Angeles in a hurry, for various personal reasons, but this time, on January 7th, I was actually fleeing from something tangible. The Palisades fire seemed to watch me with disdain as I lifted into the sky, towards a new country and…
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Hometown Highlights: Summerfield, NC
By Samantha Hogsett Summerfield Town Hall Photo By: Samantha Hogsett Winter break in Summerfield, NC is the same as during any other break. Not much changes with the seasons besides the grass turning brown and the trees becoming bare. One would think Summerfield would be most beautiful during North Carolina’s summer days because of its…
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The Resurrected Sport: Running
The 2024 Running Resurgence, the 1970s Running Boom, and Jimmy Carter as an O.G. Running Influencer By Chloe Snow Running is both a sport and an economy: there are booms and there are busts. What we are seeing now is a running boom. Across social media platforms in 2024, running content soared. Everywhere I looked,…
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Hometown Highlights: Lewisville, NC
By Chloe Snow There is a wonderful scene from Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird that replays in my mind. The scene goes like this: “It is clear you love Sacramento,” the nun says. To this comment, Lady Bird is surprised. Lady Bird says “I guess I pay attention.” The nun, reflectively, says not only to Lady…
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