Category: People Making a Difference in Rocky Mount, NC

A Sunday Snow Day and a 100-Year Story on Main Street

I click my heels, pause, and salute the one hundred–year celebration of a historic Main Street building. As the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer says, “It is meet and right so to do.” Standing on a corner of Main Street with steadfastness, this commercial building has done its work faithfully for a century. It holds … Continue reading A Sunday Snow Day and a 100-Year Story on Main Street →

A Sunday Snow Day and a 100-Year Story on Main Street

Take time today while snowed in to read this new blog post published on a snow bound day at 6:30 AM A birthday worth celebrating. There is a silence in the air with the snow decorating the garden and the street with no tire tracks interrupting the beauty of it all. It's Sunday and people … Continue reading A Sunday Snow Day and a 100-Year Story on Main Street →

Rocky Mount’s Beautiful Lady: Yalem Kiros’s New Cook Book

I hope you’ve spent time with Yalem, either at The Prime Smokehouse or at NABS Deli and Coffee Shop. She has now released a new cookbook. Part of Yalem’s worldview is that we are all tied to something larger. Her culinary journey, from Ethiopia to everywhere life has taken her, has taught her that no … Continue reading Rocky Mount’s Beautiful Lady: Yalem Kiros’s New Cook Book →

The Rocks Under Our Feet – Guest Blogger: Rev. Peter H. Gilliland

Rocky Mount, NC, is fascinating in all sorts of ways, and its history offers us marvelous examples of why people do what they do. One of the great questions to start with is, “why is Rocky Mount HERE?” Most of us will have automatically answered: “Because of the Falls of the Tar River,” but that … Continue reading The Rocks Under Our Feet – Guest Blogger: Rev. Peter H. Gilliland →