The New South.

Boyfriend and I love museums and history as well, so we have a long list of local sites we want to visit.  Sunday, we crossed one off when we visited the Levine Museum of the New South.  It's an interactive museum that offers a comprehensive interpretation of the South after the Civil War.  They have a permanent exhibit called Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers, as well as a temporary exhibit about the segregation and de-segregation of schools.  They have a vintage dress-up area, cotton you can turn from bushel to fluff, an antique barber shop, and even discussion areas where you can leave a Post-It with your thoughts.  It was incredible!

[The Lance snack company started in North Carolina with his roasted peanuts!]


[There was also a vintage Belk selection.  It was hard to keep myself from drooling at those darling hats and shoes.]
[Sitting in the barber shop with antique LIFE magazines.]

[Just a few representations of the oppression African-Americans (and other minorities) have suffered through and overcome. So inspiring.]

[A telegram explaining that Dr. King was held up in Memphis, and would miss a meeting in Charlotte.  He was assassinated in Memphis two days later.  Surreal.]



[Wise words.]