Durham Man Makes 300-Mile “Democracy Walk” to D.C.

Bruce Bair, 73, was just a few miles outside of Charlottesville, Virginia, when I called him up on a recent Tuesday.

“Is now a good time to talk?” I asked. “Well, I’m just walking,” he said happily.

Bair was about a week into his roughly 300-mile trek from Durham to Washington, D.C., to deliver dozens of letters to North Carolina’s congressional representatives. From Charlottesville, he still had over a week of walking more than 100 remaining miles…

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