![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
At my request, Good Sister repeated her invitation to Evil Sister to come to the scattering of our parents' ashes. No, said ES, her daughter E is coming that weekend. GS asked if she'd come if it were a different weekend. Still no. Uh huh.
Also, I'm going to have two days in Roanoke to bum around with no sisters, not just one. So, I guess I'll have time to look up ancestors; I already know that I'll be staying a few blocks from an old cemetery. If I'm feeling particularly bold I could go to the places where Mom lived, but as I said, that's about a hundred miles each way. It's also not necessarily as friendly to people like me out there as Roanoke apparently is.
Did I ever mention that the town my mother was born in was a sundown town? She didn't use that expression, but she described the signs that were on the edge of town. I can't help but wonder if it or other towns in the Blue Ridge are still sundown towns. I've seen Black people say that east Tennessee, just over the state line, has plenty.
Also, I'm going to have two days in Roanoke to bum around with no sisters, not just one. So, I guess I'll have time to look up ancestors; I already know that I'll be staying a few blocks from an old cemetery. If I'm feeling particularly bold I could go to the places where Mom lived, but as I said, that's about a hundred miles each way. It's also not necessarily as friendly to people like me out there as Roanoke apparently is.
Did I ever mention that the town my mother was born in was a sundown town? She didn't use that expression, but she described the signs that were on the edge of town. I can't help but wonder if it or other towns in the Blue Ridge are still sundown towns. I've seen Black people say that east Tennessee, just over the state line, has plenty.
