Sisters By Heart by Nickey Knighton

Author:Nickey Knighton [Knighton, Nickey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798885041720
Publisher: NewDegreePress
Published: 2022-04-23T14:33:10+00:00

The first day of our visit, my parents picked us up at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, and we went to Gladys and Ron’s Chicken and Waffles on Peachtree Avenue for dinner. We spent the rest of the evening playing board games and watching movies. The boys were so at home with their grandparents, and they still had their individual bedrooms complete with all their favorite things. We spent the next day hanging out at my parents’ pool. There was still snow in Denver, so it felt so good to be in the land of sunshine where it really felt like spring.

My parents had been married for thirty-five years and they were so loving and kind to each other. They made the institution of marriage look easy, but we all knew that it was not. It took hard work and resilience to merge lives for an eternity. I’d planned to have a conversation with Dad first. I knew when I shared with Dad that there was trouble in paradise, he’d tell Mom. He just would because they had no secrets between them, and I grew up in a family where I shared everything with my parents, but that was very hard.

The day after our arrival, I drove my dad’s red Corvette convertible to Macon to visit our friend and sorority sister, Meghan. She’d purchased a plantation farm outside of Macon in Warner Robins and turned the Antebellum home on the property into a bed and breakfast. Her strong family ties to the former plantation attracted her to want to change the course of history. Meghan was in the process of transforming the place into something spectacular that we could all be proud of despite the shameful history that lurks in and around its walls. In addition to the “big house,” there were remnants of slave quarters on the acreage. The land was covered by peach orchards and pecan trees, producing some of Georgia’s finest produce. In a few years, the property would pay for itself.

Washington Carver University had a rich history that dated to the 1890s. African Americans who were descendants of enslaved people founded the school to provide their children a college education that would allow them to thrive and contribute to America. To recognize the accomplishments of two great Americans who were model educators in the neighboring state of Alabama, they named the institution after Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. The campus of WCU was adorned with statues of several great Americans—the Healy Brothers of Macon, Washington, Carver, Mary McLeod Bethune, and most recently, President and Mrs. Obama.

The original home of the first president was on the campus and remained a grand tourist attraction. WCU was renowned for many great things—the band, the choir, the ROTC Programs, Engineers, and Scientists. One of the most popular campus programs was inspired by Washington’s oratorical abilities and began the WCU’s Speakers’ Series that has attracted such leaders over the years as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Maynard Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Andrew Young, John Lewis, Al Sharpton, Bernice King, and Stacey Abrams.

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