Join us for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration. We will start with a walk leaving from the Randolph County Courthouse at 10am. We will walk to the Eddie Mae Herron Center where we will warm up with chili and birthday cake. Students will read poems and facts on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Come…
Christmas celebration and decorations at the Eddie Mae Herron Center. [photospace]
The Eddie Mae Herron Center Museum received a wonderful addition this week, though it’s certainly unusual. When the African American School in the Birdell Community closed many years ago, the old school building and its associated outdoor toilet were abandoned. A few years ago arsonists burned the old school building, but the outhouse (it looks…
John and Roberta Warner donated a barbecue grill to the Herron Center recently. The Warners designed and built the grill, which will be put to good use at the upcoming Randolph County Fair. The Center certainly appreciates this generous donation.
Imagine people sitting at a computer in their English cottage and reading about the Eddie Mae Herron Center. The first e-mail sent to the Center via the new herroncenter.org website was from a mother in the United Kingdom. The woman, whose last name is Herron, had typed her children’s names into the Internet’s Google search…