Volume 3, number 1 of The Iredell Historian arrived in my inbox last week, focusing largely on their Black History Month 2024 offerings. Iredell County Public Library’s programming is top-notch, and my long-time admiration has been solidified by their leading role in the study and reclamation of Statesville’s Green Street Cemetery.

As I’ve talked about here, my maternal grandmother was from Statesville, and we have innumerable relatives buried in Green Street. I’m super-excited, then, to have been invited by the library to talk about my family’s links to this sacred space.  (And hopeful that, one day, a member of the Lane Street Project’s descendant diaspora will return to Wilson with stories of their kin.)