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 Feature writing is one of the great joys of a writer's life. The chance to explain important issues, help employees' learn company values from retiring executives -- and, best of all, meet interesting people. Through the years, I've met had the opportunity to interview authors, artists, heroes, scholars, scientists, carnies, beauty queens, a preacher predicting the imminent end of the world, a man who claimed he had aliens growing in his backyard, a former professional wrestler who fought as the Mr. Wrestling #2 impostor and a six-year-old who was building his own electrical transmission line. I've written everything from a series on child abuse credited with helping change Tennessee policy to the history of kudzu in Georgia. In the process, I've gotten to ride on an experimental aircraft called the "Breezy" (basically a bicycle with a propeller), be locked in a room by the Secret Service, eat breakfast with the cast of "Smoky and the Bandit" (Paul Williams' request for a breakfast of Heineken and aspirin conflicted with Georgia's liquor laws) and shut down a (simulated) nuclear reactor. Not to mention spending so much time writing about Georgia Power's history that I served as a consultant on a historical exhibit on Atlanta's trolley system. |
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Examples: The Scherer Years The Littlest
Lineman Out of
Control -- Problem Drinkers Kudzu The Power
Company Next Door |
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