User:Jcbarr/Connections

Person connections to articles on WP

• J. D. Gibbs was in my freshman dorm at College of William and Mary
• Curtis Pride was my suitemate Junior year at W&M
• I volunteered for John Edwards in 2004 primaries - you could have seen me open the door for him at the Virgian J-J dinner (where Elizabeth touched the arm of my coat!)
• I live about a mile away from Fred Brooks
• I once worked on the plumbing of James Taylor's mothers house
• I have a friend who was babysat by B.J. Surhoff while he was at UNC
• Wyatt Earp is a great-great-whatever uncle of mine.
• One of my great-great-whatever grandfathers was the doctor to Lord Baltimore
• I attended Chapel Hill High School
• I coached Bill Cobey's son in pee-wee baseball
• Eric Montross's son played in my son's basketball league
• A friend of mine is the father-in-law to Terry of Carbon Leaf
• I watched Bill Clinton, Hillary, Al, Tipper, and Jimmy Carter build a Habitat house in Atlanta during the Republican National Convention of 1992 (and got autographs from the middle 3).
• Howard Lee's wife Lillian spoke to my high school Government class about their struggles for racial equality in Chapel Hill in the 60s.
• Met Stevie Wonder at the 1999 Special Olympics opening ceremony
• Antonio Pettigrew came to a party at our house for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony
• Worked with Mike Cross at First Night Raleigh events.
• A friend of mine's son-in-law is Terry from Carbon Leaf
• At the 1996 Olympic Summer Games opening ceremony in Atlanta, I (literally) ran into Evander Holyfield in the tunnel underneath the stadium prior to his coming in with the torch (I was working as a security volunteer).
• My wife was editor-in-chief of the The Daily Tar Heel over James Surowiecki
• She also interned under Mark Bittman at Cook's Illustrated, where she wrote several articles in the mid-90s.