Dick Pointer monument and grave
Carnegie Hall
Mt. Tabor Baptist Church
Lewisburg, WV was an unexpected pleasure on my trip. It is just down the road from the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs. I first stopped in Lewisburg for lunch before exploring the Lost World Caverns. I liked it so much I changed my trip so I could make another visit.
Lewisburg has an active downtown, complete with several good restaurants, coffeehouses, art galleries and bakeries. I ate twice at the Stardust Cafe and twice bought various baked goods at the Greenbrier Valley Baking Co. (definitely stock up on their granola).
One of the world's three Carnegie Halls is in Lewisburg. The other two being here in New York and in Dunfermline, Scotland.
Lewisburg was the home of Dick Pointer, a slave who was a hero in the battle against the Indians at nearby Fort Donnally in 1778. For his heroics Pointer was made a free man in 1801.
Pointer died a few years before the Mt. Tabor Baptist Church building was constructed in 1836. The church was originally a white congregation but was given to African-American Baptists after the Civil War. I took the picture from the cemetery across the street. I think I could have spent all afternoon looking at that shade of green.
Something else I could spend all afternoon looking at: THE BEST MUSIC VIDEO EVER MADE.
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Eduard now has a facebook fan page.
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