If family trees are credible sources, Peter Allison Lewis, who lived in Spartanburg, SC, from 1725 until 1801 (give or take), is a direct ancestor. It’s hard for me NOT to have some skepticism over family trees: how many of us truly understood, when we first learned about Sarah and Abraham in Sunday School, what lifestyle they lived that gave birth to Ishmael? Go back far enough, I have little doubt that baby Daddy secrets have happened at least once in every family.
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Purportedly, Spartanburg is a bike-friendly city.
The first bike lane I found was on a street that paralleled a major road. That seemed useful, although the patches of grass growing in the lane signaled two things: 1) no one used it and 2) no one maintained it. Then, I got a flat.
Searching for bike racks has…
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The first official day of my fellowship in Spartanburg. The name sounds formal and official: the Southern Studies Fellowship in Arts & Letters. I’m a Watson Brown fellow. Or something like that. Several organizations and people got involved to make this possible.
THAT doesn’t feel daunting.
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