Title: Gwendolyn Holman

Identifier: DAO50500   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/50500)

Description: Photographs of Gwendolyn Holman taken at the Town Common, Greenville, N.C., accompanied by an oral history interview, for the Beyond Bricks and Mortar project. Gwendolyn Holman is a former resident of the Shore Drive neighborhood, that was destroyed in the 1960's to make room for the Town Common Park. Holman lived in the downtown area for the first ten years of her life. She attended the Sycamore Hill Missionary Baptist Church with her family, and has fond memories of the surrounding neighborhood. She says that the community felt like a big family. She recalls walking on the banks of the Tar River with her grandmother, and spending her summers at the playground supervised by Eleanor Hagans. Her grandfather John Mitchell owned a store on Reade and First Street. She remembers that he would run tabs for people who couldn't afford to pay for their groceries. Interviewer: Heather White.