Charles Chesnutt

From Dr. Kelley Griffith of Greensboro, NC: "Many works of fiction are by African Americans. One of them, Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition, is about the race "riot" of 1898 or so. Do you know this work? Although it's a work of fiction, the events really took place. Chesnutt does an excellent job of representing the various groups of people, black and white, involved. I wouldn't claim that this is a great novel, like Moby Dick, but it's engaging and thoughtful. The conflict marked the beginning of heavy-handed Jim Crow in N.C. A place worth visiting--far from you but fairly close to me--is the Booker T. Washington National Monument. It's a small national park in a beautiful rural setting in southern Virginia (near Smith Mountain Lake, on the way to Roanoke), a working farm where Washington lived until he was 6. He writes about it in Up from Slavery."

Charles Chesnutt

From Dr. Kelley Griffith of Greensboro, NC: "Many works of fiction are by African Americans. One of them, Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition, is about the race "riot" of 1898 or so. Do you know this work? Although it's a work of fiction, the events really took place. Chesnutt does an excellent job of representing the various groups of people, black and white, involved. I wouldn't claim that this is a great novel, like Moby Dick, but it's engaging and thoughtful. The conflict marked the beginning of heavy-handed Jim Crow in N.C. A place worth visiting--far from you but fairly close to me--is the Booker T. Washington National Monument. It's a small national park in a beautiful rural setting in southern Virginia (near Smith Mountain Lake, on the way to Roanoke), a working farm where Washington lived until he was 6. He writes about it in Up from Slavery."

New Bern Clergyman shows what's in a name

Drury Lacy The clerical family man.

Bill Hand wrote: "Drury Lacy is my favorite name in all of New Bern history. It suggests a character of dry wit and sophistication, while in slant-rhyme with 'Drury Lane' oozes a fine irony: Drury Lane being, in that day, the very soul of carnality as London's Broadway; Drury Lacy being the very soul of spirituality as an educated and dedicated man of God." Bill notices "his deep devotion to his family." "Drury was one of those Virginia boys, born in 1802 to a prominent clergyman and professor of the same name in Prince Edward County." (He went to) Union Theological Seminar- Presbyterian (In) Sept., 1833 (he went) to New Bern. (He) brought (his) wife and child; (A) second child James Horace, (was born in)
1835.