Happy New Year! We created Story of America two years ago understand why we are so divided as a nation, and seek solutions for how we may become more united. Since November 2012, we have released four web series on: voting rights, Moral Monday movement, fight to save Pungo District Hospital in

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A federal complaint has been filed by Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) citing events that I witnessed and documented for Story of America. On June 20, 2014, I traveled to Lawrenceville, Virginia to film an emergency town hall meeting about the possibility of putting an Unaccompanied

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On Sept. 16 we learned from WNCT reporter Josh Birch that Vidant Health and its LLC have changed the locks to they hospital they closed down in Belhaven, NC hoping that no more images reach the public. At issue are claims that the hospital smells of mold and is falling apart from the inside —

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People in Belhaven have been asking themselves: what would our parents, grandparents and great grandparents do in the conflict over Pungo District Hospital? What would they think of it? How would they have resolved it? I think I found an answer in the Registry of Deeds in the Beaufort County

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“Walking Mayor” Adam O’Neal (R) will complete his 273-mile march from his home town of Belhaven, NC to the U.S. Capitol Building in the name of Medicaid expansion, endangered rural hospitals, and the Pungo District Hospital, which closed on July 1 endangering his community.  

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Just a few days after the death of Portia Gibbs, 48, her husband, Barry, and her children Justin and Ashely shared with us that they were wounded by two assertions that had reached them about Portia’s death. They said that these assertions may have originated with Hyde County emergency

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This was one of the most disturbing nights of filming I have experienced in America since Oct. 16, 2007 in Prince William County, VA (when, after 12 hours of heated public testimony, the Board of County Supervisors voted to fund a law requiring police to check immigration status based on a

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NOTE: Vidant Health declined to be interviewed for this web series, and declined our offer to submit a statement on this issue. In September 2013, Vidant Health, a system of hospitals serving 29 counties in eastern North Carolina, that it would be closing the Vidant Pungo Hospital in Belhaven,

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In 1985, at the age of 13, I was offered my first job as a babysitter.  For four hours on a Friday night, I would be responsible for 9-year-old Brian Robertson. I tried the toy cars and other games that had entertained me when my parents had hired sitters for me. But Brian soon got […]

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Today I received a message from a TEA Party friend named David. I know him only through Facebook, but our conversations have been deep. The first message I received from him was in October 2011. He noticed that I was going through a rough spell, and he wrote me this: Eric, I have always admired

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