by paracletepress | Jun 23, 2026 | Met Her on the Mountain
After too long away, I recently returned to Madison County for the first time since Hurricane Helene devastated parts of the area, inundating the county seat of Marshall, on the banks of the French Broad River. (Yes, I should have come up much sooner to volunteer for...
by paracletepress | Mar 30, 2026 | Events
Tired of polarizing rancor, food-fight media, and constant “gotcha” bickering? Try befriending someone from the “other side” whose views differ greatly from your own. You might learn lots. We did. SPEAKERS: Mark Pinsky (’70): leftist social critic, Jewish, career...
by paracletepress | Jan 29, 2026 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain
Richard Lewis Johnson, the Madison County, N.C., man who confessed to me twice that he was part of a group of five local men who kidnapped, raped and murdered federal anti-poverty worker Nancy Dean Morgan in 1970, is dead. He died Jan. 24 of what are believed to be...
by paracletepress | Dec 24, 2025 | Met Her on the Mountain
For some time, Richard Johnson’s estranged son, Chris, who appears in several sections in Met Her on the Mountain, has been working on a memoir, How I Survived the Man Who Met Her on the Mountain. The book, a searing account of life with Richard Johnson, is now out...
by paracletepress | Jun 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Over the past month I have made two visits to St. Simons Island in hopes of completing research for our next cold case project, Murder in the Rectory, the 1938 shooting of the Rev. Charles Lee, of Christ Church Frederica (see my previous blog item, below, “New Murder,...
