“I am a poor Colored Woman trying to have a home for living in my old age My husband and I have put all our life earnings in this place and now it is taken…
Tag: Asheville
Discovering grits, black history & the ‘big house’ in NC
Posted in Black history, Culture, slavery, and travel
Before we had even reached Asheville, NC, I had read on the web that the locals considered Tupelo Honey Café as one of the best in the city. So when a worker at our hotel…
It was raining buckets outside but inside was as dry as cornstalks in an autumn field. I was at Heritage Weekend at the Folk Art Center, milepost 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville,…