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Happy National Apple Month! It’s October and we’re digging into our closets for chunky sweaters, sliding into comfy slippers, and flipping through recipe books for comforting stews, soups, and baked goodies.
Halifax, North Carolina, was an important part of the Underground Railroad in North Carolina. With the largest free Black population of any county in the state in the antebellum period, the community provided a network to help freedom seekers as well as a place to blend in.
Keith Price does not wear academic robes — a 1954 graduate of what was then called Wake Forest College, he was in a variety of business ventures through his long working life — but if Forest City in Rutherford County had a historian-in-residence, Price would be it.