I surely passed Clarence B. Best‘s house-cum-atelier thousands of times in my child- and young adulthood, but I have no memory of this display of his wares in his front yard as shown in this 1980 photograph. In this era, Nash Street cut right in front of his house.


Houses, 700-1407 E. Nash Street, East Wilson Historic District, Wilson, Wilson County, Survey and National Register Branch, State Historic Preservation Office, Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and Records, Raleigh.