Sign Recognizes Historic New Garden – Guilford College Community / July 12, 2022

It was a nice evening stroll with Jane and the mutt on July 12 to the Heritage Community sign dedication on West Friendly Avenue. The one-mile walk from our house to the sign on the western edge of the Guilford College/New Garden community had us walking through land once inhabited by the Occoneechee, Saura, and Keowah; farms settled by Pennsylvania and Nantucket Quakers; fields where soldiers fell during the Revolutionary War; areas where “free Blacks”…

Vote … and remember that the privilege is a hard-won right / July 20, 2022

It is time to VOTE in our local elections – for mayor, city council and five bond issues. Election Day is July 26; early voting ends July 23. Hopefully all readers will exercise that right and privilege, and in doing so, think about African Americans like Henry Frye, who was denied the right to vote upon returning from military service, due to a failure to pass the “literacy test” (given to Black citizens only) prior…