Literary Corner: Renegade Writer’s Guild

Poplar Springs School By E. Bishop The leaves are turning the beautiful warm, rich and earthy colors of fall as I drive up to the small one room schoolhouse named Poplar Springs on Ijames Church Road in western Davie County. My time here this crisp morning is to observe my friend, Reba George McInnis, teach a group of women how to paint their very own barn quilt. Hopefully, in the near future, Reba will be my co-conspirator in bringing a barn quilt trail to our local community. But first, in her own words, she wanted to tell the story of this small wooden schoolhouse which she truly loves. “This is Poplar Springs School House. It was the one room school house serving the neighborhood’s Black students. It was a mile up the road and the folks that owned the property up there wanted to build a garage so they wanted to remove the building and they offered it to the citizens of the black community in the area.

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