'This is Black American history': Hungerford heir visits Eatonville amid school land fight
Since she was a child in the 1950s and 60s, Bea Leach Hatler had always heard stories of “the land in Eatonville” that was an important part of her family’s legacy. On Thursday, for the first time, she saw what was left of the property that once housed the Robert Hungerford Normal and Industrial School, her great-grandfather’s namesake. “It’s like, God, they were here. They were here,” said ...