Vick Cemetery: Remembered & Restored is a city-sponsored event. If you’d have told me in the dark days at the beginning of this year that this is where we would be come fall, I would have scoffed. Come celebrate progress at Vick Cemetery!
Civic Life
Alfred Boisey Robinson is still active.
Lane Street Project: buy a white rose.
Even if you can’t make the ceremony, you can celebrate the occasion and honor the ancestors with flowers. Each white rose will be placed alongside a large floral arrangement at Vick Cemetery.
Please place your order — early and often — with Braswell’s Flower Shop at (252) 218-4265 or (252) 903-7241 or via CashApp $gr480. Thank you!
Lane Street Project: Vick Cemetery — Remembered and Restored!
Good things have been happening at Vick Cemetery, and the Vick Cemetery Advisory Committee and the City of Wilson invite you to celebrate!
Lane Street Project: trespass.
Yeah. That’s exactly what you think it is. A car … all the way at the back fence of Vick Cemetery. This kind of trespass — and disrespect — continues to happen, though every vehicle that enters has to pass at least one granite pillar emblazoned with the cemetery’s name and climb a curb out of the paved parking lot.
Vick Cemetery is a sacred space. Lane Street Project — and now the City’s Vick Cemetery Advisory Committee — are working hard to restore dignity to this place and raise awareness of its significance and history. We need the community’s help.
Update on Park-Mercer Wetland.
Two years in, the Park-Mercer Wetland Project has reshaped a scarred floodplain to clean waterflow moving downstream from downtown Wilson. North Carolina State University’s Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering designed the project, which pumps water out of a tributary of Hominy Swamp and allows gravity to move it through a channel with five deep ponds.
Pond at the corner of Banks and Mercer Streets. As I approached, a muffled plink revealed a frog diving underwater.
When this project began, large signboards onsite educated the community about the wetland’s function and purpose. I hope permanent replacements are in the works.
Photo by Lisa Y. Henderson, September 2026.
Lane Street Project: prepping for Season 7.
Lane Street Project’s Season 7 is right around the corner, and we’re super excited about our plans for the next six to nine months. With the establishment of 501(c)(3) organization Friends of Lane Street Project to oversee fundraising and projects, we look forward to increased sustainability of our work. If you’ve driven past Odd Fellows Cemetery this summer, you will have noticed that we’ve been able to secure regular mowing of the front section and cleared the fence of tattered signage. (It’ll be updated and replaced!)
We recently posted a weather-resistant folder with information for volunteers working our cleanups, as well as signs affirming the liability waivers that all volunteers sign.
The Season 7 schedule will be released in October, and we’ll be reaching out schools, churches, and other organizations with information about ways to support the ongoing reclamation of this historic cemetery. Stay tuned for more information and, in the meantime, feel free to Zelle us a donation — friendsoflsp. Thank you!
Mass meeting held to organize help for the needy.
Four Minute Men.
Wilson Daily Times, 12 June 1918.
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- Globe Theatre
- S.H. Vick — Samuel H. Vick.
- Rev. H.B. Taylor — Halley B. Taylor.
Reflections on Samuel Vick’s “unquiet life” in politics.
William T. Bost was the influential political correspondent and columnist for the Greensboro Daily News. Just a few days after Samuel H. Vick died, Bost wrote an editorial about Vick’s “unquiet” political life, reflecting on the aftermath of Vick’s removal from his postmaster position.
Greensboro Daily News, 13 July 1946.