Goodnight Raleigh - a look at the art, architecture, history, and people of the city at night
This week we feature a beautifully tinted early postcard depicting the Baptist University for Women, now known as Meredith College. Our card shows its original building on Blount Street.
And the brief, hand-written message on the back says it all.
The Bell Tower and Learning Resources Center with a couple of uprooted trees
Shaw University was one of the places to be hit by the series of storms which rained down tornadoes upon North Carolina. While the devastation is still being assessed across the city and state, Shaw was one of the places in Raleigh hit pretty hard. There are several large and old uprooted trees nears the Bell Tower, sections of the roof of Estey Hall were blown off, and the Student Center sustained a great deal of damage.
Although classes were cancelled for the remainder of the semester, efforts are underway for students across NC college campuses to come together to clean up the damage.
Words and pictures don’t describe the devastation in SE Raleigh. I spent the past couple of days walking around the area and listening to incredible stories of people who were in the center of the storm. There are still a lot of roads that are impassable and areas that still have no power. This is a poorer section of Raleigh and I don’t think the local media has focused on the area very well.
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