Adrian J. O'Connor
A native of Jersey City, New Jersey, Adrian O'Connor belatedly followed the advice of his dear mother--"Go to newspapers, young man"--and ended up spending forty years in the inky-wretch(ed) industry. First, though, there was extended pursuits of the history muse, as witnessed by his two degrees--BA, Randolph-Macon College (1976), and MA, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1979)--in that discipline. Over those forty years, his ports of journalistic call included Petersburg, Emporia,...
