![]() ![]() Posted in Slavery and tagged Eastern Carolina Village and Farm Museum, enslaved people, genealogy, research on Augby Lisa Y. Shout out to Regina Carter-Garcia, a local professor/poet/genealogist, who hyped the event beforehand and showed up to share insightful experience, and to my mama Meike Darville of Scarborough House (which has become an amazing partner to Lane Street Project) and Castonoble Hooks, who traveled from Wilson County to support their homegirl! ![]() ECVFM is only 45 minutes down the road from Wilson, and I strongly recommend a visit. The museum has recently partnered with East Carolina University’s Joyner Library on an oral history project to conduct interviews with under-represented eastern North Carolina farm families. to the site, and two 1890s-era farm buildings donated by a local African American family. The County Home’s original barn is still standing, and the museum relocated other buildings, including a one-room school house, a general store, etc. The museum is on the former site of the Pitt County Home for the Aged and Infirm, whose residents residents farmed the land. ![]()
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