Column: Nina Simone was special at a young age while growing up in Tryon
Column: Nina Simone was special at a young age while growing up in Tryon Rob Neufeld Author Rob Neufeld wrote a weekly "Visiting Our Past" column for the Asheville Citizen Times until his death in 2019. This column originally was published March 1, 2010 in the Citizen Times. Davan Waymon, an African-American entrepreneur advertised "Dry Cleaning and Pressing — Called for and Delivered" in a March 1929 issue of the Tryon Daily Bulletin. Waymon had just moved to town from the Greenville-Spartanburg area, sensing that Tryon's two grand hotels and four gas stations boded well for business. Whe...
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