Sylvia Gray had a shop that sold everything. Schoolbooks. Hats. Handbags. Board games. Dresses. Skirts. Shoes. Toys. Teddy bears. Suits. Radios. Records. Cameras. Pianos. Hammers. Clocks. Lamps. Desks. Chairs. Super bounce balls. Bookends. Linens. Buttons. Models. Backpacks. Denim. Guitars. Globes. Maps. Luggage. Saucers. Glasses. Ice skates. Rackets. Golf clubs. Tables. Tape decks. Recliners. Posters. Cross stitch. Footstools. Typewriters. Bottles. Puzzles. Baskets. Televisions. Wheelchairs. Etc.

At any given time — except summer — more than 50,000 college students roam the streets and bars of the Triad, a sizable demographic that affects our culture and economy.

And there are as many kinds of beer as there are beer drinkers: American style, light and yellow, sucked from icy cans; crisp Mexican beers that work with chunks of lime; Englsh ales; Irish stouts; Belgian whites; African black beer and Asian beer made from rice.

A list of the brewers and products represented at the Summertime Brews Festival this Saturday, August 24.

You ll forgive Rocky Brooks if he feels like he’s living a charmed existence these days. First there was that head pro job at Sedgefield Country Club — not bad work if you can get it — but then along came the goose that laid the golden egg in the form of a PGA Tour event at his home course.

Mark Brazil may or may not be familiar with theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, but chances are he’s familiar with the famous saying attributed to him: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference.”