Governor Fortenberry?

Ken and Anna in a campaign photo. She has to be among the most patient women in history. Don't know
what's up with the log cabin in the background. Doubt that Ken was born there, but who knows.

Same old Ken.
Stan served in a U.S. Army Information Office in 1970 with an unforgettable character, Specialist Fourth Class Kenneth Fortenberry, a one-of-a-kind gadfly Southern boy who delighted in tweaking the son-of-a-bitch colonel who was the Brigade's chief of staff. Ken wasn't intimidated by anyone or anything.

Future N.C. Guv?

Stan lost track of him for a while, then spotted him on 60 Minutes in 1987. As publisher of a small-town newspaper he had taken on corruption and the local sheriff, and his house got bombed. Harry Reasoner interviewed him. A book he wrote about the experience, "Kill the Messenger," was published in 1989 and has been under option for a TV movie.
He received the Georgia Press Association’s Freedom of Information Award in 1993 for his courageous investigative reporting of a powerful public utility that was being mismanaged.
Ken re-established himself in North Carolina, raised a family, then lost a run for a congressional seat.
He's now retired, and obviously bored.
Last month he announced he was running to be the Governor of North Carolina in 2016. Libertarian Party. Good old anti-establishment Ken, Stan thought, no rocking chair for him.
Browsing through his campaign platform, Ken is correct on just about everything. So there is absolutely no chance he'll ever get elected. But he'll shake up the regulars, raise some hell, and maybe be a spoiler -- and garner lots of attention and have plenty of fun doing it.
Same old Ken. Good luck to this Great American -- who tried to get Stan to partner in a publishing venture somewhere in South Carolina after the Army. Come to God's Country, he said.
A road not taken.