by Mark Pinsky | Mar 1, 2022 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain
For more than three decades in the latter part of the 20th century, the Democratic political machine led by Zeno and E. Y. Ponder wrested control from Republicans and thereafter controlled pretty much everything in Madison County. Zeno was the Democratic Party...
by Mark Pinsky | Feb 25, 2022 | Excerpts, Met Her on the Mountain
The first reports of the murder were vague. A young antipoverty worker had been kidnapped, raped, and murdered in the mountains of North Carolina, her body discovered on an abandoned logging road almost within sight of the Appalachian Trail. Although the brutal and...
by Mark Pinsky | Feb 25, 2022 | Drifting into Darkness, Excerpts
The Weston County courthouse, in Newcastle, Wyoming, is a majestic, three-story, sandstone and brick building. Four tall pillars support the front portico and a copper-plated, octagonal dome. It was built in 1911, two decades after Weston was carved out of neighboring...
by Mark Pinsky | Feb 22, 2022 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain
Not to be outdone by Marshall, the hilltop college town of Mars Hill has become part of the Madison County boomlet, according to a Dec. 2, 2021 article by Linda Ray in the Asheville alternative weekly, The Mountain Xpress. She writes, “Mars Hill’s Main Street has...
by Mark Pinsky | Feb 15, 2022 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain
Met Her on the Mountain is, as my evangelical friends like to say, “the book of my heart,” a work of decades. This new edition is in hard cover, Kindle, and, for the first time, trade paper. The first thing you may notice is that there is a new cover and a shortened...
