My Dry January Was Off to a Rough Start. Could Creative, Boozeless Concoctions Serve Up Some Redemption?
Illustration by Jon Fuller
As the days shortened and darkened with 2020âs final act, I found my nightly glass of wine coming earlier and becoming two, or three, sometimes chased by shame the next morning.
A disclaimer: I donât see drinking as a black-and-white divide between good, self-controlled, responsible drinkers and bad, gluttonous alcoholics. Everyone who chooses to imbibe exists on a spectrum of risk, and where you fall depends on your relationship with alcohol.
Iâve always liked to drink, although since college, my relationship with alcohol has mellowed. Pre-pandemic, Iâd go out and throw a few back once a week with pals, but for the most part, I felt in control. Until I didnât.
It’s probably no surprise that Person Street in Fayetteville was named for a person.
But it wasn’t just any person. It was a person named Person who served as a brigadier general in the Revolutionary War and as a member of the state legislature for 30 years.
He also was a member of the committee that named streets in Fayetteville.
Four prominent streets in the city Hay, Gillespie, Person and Ramsey are named for the four members of that committee, according to the Fayetteville Observer archives.
The North Carolina General Assembly appointed the committee in 1783 to name the most important downtown roads as the former village of Cross Creek transitioned to Fayetteville.
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36. 27 of those fatalities coming in north carolina. eight in south carolina. one in virginia, a tornado-related death. more from miguel marquez. reporter: we re on the person street bridge in fayetteville. they had to shut it down because engineers are concerned about the debris moving underneath the bridge. we re on the bridge, that s the grove street bridge. that bridge nmay have to be shu down because of the cape fear river. the water is still rising, has a foot to go in the next 12 hours or so. they think that it will actually crest. the bigger concern is this rail bridge just below us, the csx rail bridge. you see the amount of the waters hitting the bridge and the debris in the center putting stress on it. we have a drone up overhead. person street. it can move over to the train bridge to show you exactly how much debris is gathered and how
this rail bridge just below us, the csx rail bridge. you see the amount of the waters hitting the bridge, the amount of debris that s gathering in the center of the bridge putting a lot of stress on it. we have a drone up overhead. person street. it can move over to the train bridge to show exactly how much debris there is gathered around that bridge and how much pressure there is on that bridge. i want to point out one other thing for you here. there s a street light over here. this is kind of amazing. that is normally where the end of a boat ramp is. it is clearly 20 or 30 feet below that now. one other picture, this is a picture of near downtown fayetteville. that s about a half mile from where we are right now. that river is moving up toward the downtown area. they ve not seen anything like this since 1945. they believe downtown will be