Tim Bullard was born in 1955 in Laurinburg, North Carolina. His magazine work includes articles and photographs in Planning magazine, Army magazine, Sandlapper and Our State North Carolina, as well as on the John Blue Cotton Festival and others. Bullard's website can be found at www.timbullard.com. He has worked as a reporter and columnist for the North Myrtle Beach Times and also for the Hickory Daily Record, the Myrtle Beach Herald and the Watauga Democrat. He has won writing awards from the South Carolina Press Association and the North Carolina Press Association. The South Carolina Senate