Record #:

10646

Author(s):

Lancaster, Ralph

Abstract:

92-year-old George Black of Winston-Salem, recently featured on CBS television and now being sent by the U.S. State Department to Guyana to teach people how to make brick by hand has been at his craft for over 80 years. Brick made by hand with equipment that went out of style 50 years ago may seem out of place in North Carolina, the nation's leading brick producing state. Black's handmade brick factory, believed to be the only one the South, gets orders for handmade, colonial brick from many places, including restored historical sites such as Williamsburg, Va. and Old Salem, N.C., and modern commercial customers such as Wachovia Bank and Trust, Co., which builds many of its branches from Black's product.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 38 Issue 17, Feb 1971, p16-17, il, por

Subject(s):

Factories--Winston Salem; Brickwork