Tributes to David Poole, our archives and more
Monday, May. 04, 2009
ROBERT LAHSER - rlahser@charlott
4/29/09 Family members of Observer motorsports reporter David Poole comfort each other after the funeral service on Thursday at Parkwood Baptist Church in Gastonia. ROBERT LAHSER - rlahser@charlotteobserver.com
ROBERT LAHSER - rlahser@charlott
4/29/09 Humpy Wheeler enters Parkwood Baptist Church in Gastonia to attend the funeral of Observer motorsports reporter David Poole on Thursday. ROBERT LAHSER - rlahser@charlotteobserver.com
ROBERT LAHSER - rlahser@charlott
4/29/09 Rev. John Bridges a friend and pastor to David Poole officates the funeral service of Observer motorsports reporter David Poole on Thursday at Parkwood Baptist Church in Gastonia. ROBERT LAHSER - rlahser@charlotteobserver.com
Posting live content and commentary from a good race weekend without the contributions of our colleague and friend David Poole doesn't feel at all right. We all miss him and our hearts will continue to be with his family and many, many friends.
We've posted a lot of the tributes written in recent days, audio files and slideshows, along with information about and links to his favorite charities.
We've also put up examples Poole's best work in a section we've named In Memory of David Poole. No, not all of his fine columns and articles appear there. (We'd like to see the server that can handle all of that!)
If there's something you'd really like to see that you can't find there, please drop us a line by way of the site's feedback link. Poole would have insisted we try to find it and, with that in mind, we'll make every effort to help get it for you.
In some cases, what you're after will be in our database and we can add it to the tribute section. Other pieces could be in the Observer's archives and would involve some digging. For those, there would be a small fee.
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