Honoring the Past, Building a Future
Over the holiday this Main Street blog, metaphorically, had its tires aligned and air-filled. Therefore, I have stepped over the threshold into this new year, 2023, with a resolution to keep calling everyone to come downtown. I'm sure this question is universal. How do I want to spend the years I have left? For sure … Continue reading 2023: To Whom It May Concern From Stepheny – Rocky Mount, NC
Tuesday afternoon, wanting to finish David Habersham's book, The Powers That Be, I turned on my Kindle and snuggled back in bed. Between falling asleep and reading, it grew dark outside and there were no lights turned on in the 'cottage for two' either. From the interior of the house, a small light came from … Continue reading A Light Shines Within The Abandoned Bungalows of Rocky Mount
It is 1:30 AM, now the 26th of December. Garbage cans are bulging with torn wrapping paper, empty boxes, the packaging of Christmas toys. It is cold and quiet. This may have been one of my prettiest Christmas trees. In my Martha Stewart phase I began tying each ornament on the branches with small red … Continue reading Merry Christmas To All And To All a Goodnight – From Main Street Rocky Mount, NC
After watching TV episodes of a program called, Restoration Road with Clint Harp, the word restoration applies to more than saving buildings. Restoration applied to the country would expose the sacredness of this great country, the USA. The show Restoration Road tells you a short history of the locale of each episode. It details the … Continue reading A Reflection From Rocky Mount, NC: Restoration Also Reveals The American Spirit
Click on Slideshow to advance photo's I was born in Chicago and raised in Evanston, IL. Marshall Fields was a part of growing up. The downtown State Street store, featured in the slideshow, was a destination that took on particular significance at Christmas time. My mother,Madeline Forgue, never learned to drive so our traveling was … Continue reading A Reflection: Stepheny’s Marshall Fields Christmas Card for 2022
Hill Street - Rocky Mount, NC "The pleasure of restoring an historic home is reserved for those who see past the decaying structure and its weeds, overgrown brush, broken windows, and battered shutters. To see past the current state requires one to see the beauty of its bones and how it once was and could … Continue reading Seeing Past the State of Things: Rocky Mount, NC Housing
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