Many of us are aware of the famous sit-in at the FW Woolworth’s in Greensboro, NC. It rocked the world. Not so many were aware of the Friendship Nine who staged a similar protest at the McCrory’s lunch counter in my mother’s hometown of Rock Hill, SC. Now considered a suburb of Charlotte, Rock Hill…
Author: Curtis Hertwig
Bookends in Birmingham
If you ever want to see a lot of Civil Rights landmarks, just go to Alabama. Not sure if they’re the worst at Civil Rights or if they’re just willing to own up to their failures, but they sure have lots of memorials, museums and other sites. Still, considering the support for Roy Moore, they…
Back to the Beginning to Understand the End
This trip began with one plan; morphed into another plan; but then has come full circle back to the original plan. Of course, life will do that to ya, just before it goes off in another direction. Nonetheless, when you travel you must be open to whatever comes at you and I didn’t appreciate my…
For My Designer Friends
The Bobby Hotel in Nashville is a boutique hotel with a very interesting look. The halls have maintained some minimalist/industrial (aka cheap) look but with enough added to hold down ambient noise. Very important in a hotel in my egotistic opinion. In fact, I think it’s important in more places than it is applied. /
The Incredible Morphing Road Trip
Or how I went from hunting Civil Rights Landmarks to State Capitols. So, I started this trip with the best of intentions, to view Civil Rights Landmarks and then, somewhere along the line it switched. I was all about it through Georgia and into SC… Charleston, but then I got upstate and many of the…
Happy New Year 2019!
Happy 2019 and welcome to v2.0 of my blog. Today I switched from WebsiteBuilder to WordPress and I am still learning how to use the various features, but I hope to better integrate pictures with my text as well as allow interactions with you, dear reader, via comments. Despite the popularity and efforts of the…
Of Scooters & Bikes
As many of you know, I am “into” bike/ped issues and I am following the evolution of dockless bike share and scooter sharing with great interest. In that vein, this trip has turned into more of a pursuit of state capitols and governor’s mansions than visiting Civil Rights landmarks, so I have seen, first hand,…