About the Author

Don Bolden is a native of Burlington, North Carolina, and has lived his entire life there, except for the four years he spent at the University of North Carolina. He is editor emeritus of the Times-News in Burlington where he spent his entire career of fifty-one years. For many of those years he wrote items related to the history of Burlington and Alamance County and has authored four previous books on the history of the area. In retirement, he continues to write a weekly column for the Times-News.