This week I have been remembering the summer day last year when I finally got to meet Willa Cofield. She was 96 then, and though she seemed and still seems far, far younger, I think that she would be the first to understand that I was beginning to wonder if we would ever meet face to face.
African American history
A Beautiful Day in Piney Grove
At first light we gathered at the Friendship Holiness Church in Piney Grove, a community in the far southeastern part of the North Carolina coast. The descendants of Caesar Evans were going searching for the community's past in the local woods and swamps, and they had invited me to go with them.
