Black Wide-Awake simmered on a back burner for years; my first post was titled “At last.” Ten years and almost 7000 posts later, among the greatest joys this blog has brought me are the people I’ve met and relationships I’ve built. I’m grateful for the ways you enrich my understanding of a place I love, and I’m honored to have brought gifts to you. Now more than ever, we have to teach ourselves, tell our own stories, save our own spaces, preserve our own past. Thank you for reading, for supporting, for commenting, for amplifying, for sharing photos and memories, for championing our dead. Black Wilson got something to say!
Congratulatuons! Thank you very much for your storytelling! Your mother always sent my mother, Esther Askew, the loveliest cards. She loved the cards and their relationship. When I last saw your Father and Mother at Jackson Chapel, your father smiled and asked if I remembered him. I am 4ft 10 in tall. How could I forget him, a very tall man with a rich history in basketball. Good people.
I’m blessed in so many ways. Thank you!
Congratulations on 10 years of human relations and community-building posts! I am proud to know you and I love and admire the work you do! Here’s to many more years of connecting people and events with love and respect for all. 🥂
Thank you!!
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Congrats to you! Your research is awesome. Many of my relatives have been featured and I am so appreciative. Thank you! Blessings.
Thanks so much!
Your expertise is Eternal … the Grande Curator of the Publics Knowledge 1
Thank you!
Thank you Lisa Henderson. You truly help to keep us informed about our hometown Wide Awake Wilson and so much more. Yes, to ten more years and even longer. God Bless.
Thanks for all your support!
Your website has been invaluable to me. It connected me to the Tart family, which I am a part of, but NEVER knew anything about. Olivia Tart, Frank Tart, Addie Tart, Henry Tart, John Tart and so many others.
Thank you, for all that you. I appreciate your research and the pictures are always BEAUTIFUL.
Sincerely,
Linda Tart
Thank you so much! You were an early supporter, and I appreciate that!