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CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE: Updates, resources, and context

Words from the War

Commentator Nan Graham

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/national/local-national-690006.mp3

Some of the expressions we use today were born of war a hundred and fifty years ago. Commentator Nan Graham explores some language and idioms which survived not only the civil war but the century and a half since.

Nan Graham is the author of two collections of WHQR commentaries, "Turn South at the Next Magnolia," and "In a Magnolia Minute." Her website is nangraham.com.

Nan Graham has deep roots in Alabama and Carolina soil. She graduated from Tuscaloosa High School and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she graduated with an AB in English. She obtained her Masters degree from The Citadel in Charleston. In 1995 Nan began broadcasting her bi- weekly commentaries on WHQR Public Radio in Wilmington. She continues these bi-weekly broadcasts along with teaching at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in the Honors College. She has taught for thirty-eight years...everything from first grade to graduate level university courses...(the last is far easier than first grade!).