WILSON, N.C. — December 14, 2021 — Filled with wit and wisdom, his short columns focus on timely topics, colorful community characters, the art of making a home and raising a family, and above all, a love for Eastern North Carolina. Southern author and Barton College professor Michael K. Brantley’s newest book, titled “It’s a Time in the Land: Best of The Soapbox,” offers a compilation of the best of his award-winning weekly opinion columns published in “The Nashville Graphic.”   “There is a lot of humor in everyday life if you can embrace and look for it,” Brantley shares. For a quarter century, he has written some 1,200 columns for […]