Boy Scouts can tackle much less intensive community service projects in hopes of earning the title of “Eagle Scout.” When I read about William Fitzgerald’s summer project, to convert an old caboose that’s been sitting in downtown Dunn, North Carolina for over a decade, I booked the story for UNC-TV and “North Carolina Now.”


Who would know, during this negative mud-slinging political season, that those powerful individual attributes and values that led to our nation’s initial success and subsequent survival still exist. Yet this story is proof that they do. Uplifting, enjoyable, hopeful.