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.