Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, and Home
The first thing I noticed about the small house was the front screen door. It was crudely made, painted white with real screen. It reminded me of the old basement screen door I’m about to…
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, Home, and Unusual
The outhouse was the first thing I spotted when I turned the corner on the ramp overlooking the back lot at the auction house. There it stood without leaning, with its gray weather-beaten boards and…
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, collectibles, and Guess what it is
The coin bank was different from most I’d seen at auction. Usually, they were metal figural banks in the shape of a book with the name of an actual bank. They were likely given out to…
The church building was an anachronism, from its white shingled exterior to its red splintered and weather-beaten main door. Sure, it fitted in well with the rowhouses that surrounded it, but it was no match…
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, Black history, Music, and Performers
The real one’s on the stage, the young man behind the podium in the lobby of Harlem’s Apollo Theater was saying to me. I was enchanted with the figures carved into the slick surface of…
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, furniture, and Home
From where I stood on the ramp, the line of doors seemed endless. The workers had laid them out side to side, flat on the ground at the back of the auction house so we auction-goers could…
Posted in Architecture/Buildings, Black history, and slavery
I almost stepped foot on a cotton plantation last week. I was headed to a bookstore in my hometown of Macon, GA, when at the foot of the exit off I-75, I spotted the sign…
