Dick Hughes

After teaching high school English for four years, two in the bush of Nigeria with the Peace Corps, Dick Hughes resolved never again to do Macbeth and joined UPI in Chicago to spend the next 45 years doing tragedy, comedy and first drafts of history, though hardly through poetry. UPI sent him from Chicago to Pierre, S.D., Lansing, Mich., Paris, Detroit and New York. Hughes joined the daily Home News Tribune in Central New Jersey, where the hubris of tragedy reaches Shakespearean proportions and where he gleefully became editor. It stopped being a lot of fun when the family owners consulted inheritance tax tables and sold to Gannett, leaving Hughes to answer each quarter to millions of shareholders, or so the expectation seemed to him. He retired after five years and with his bemused wife Kathy built a home in the mountains of West Virginia.

He then spent five years as managing editor/reporter chasing meth heads through the hollers and good ol' boys through the courthouse for the weekly Moorefield Examiner.

Hughes, born, bred, educated and cultured on the plains of North Dakota, is now bemused to find himself in the Old South.

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