Cameryn Hunter, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/cameryn-hunter/ A Home for Black Women Writers Wed, 23 Apr 2025 01:10:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Cameryn Hunter, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/cameryn-hunter/ 32 32 153713158 The Last Historian in Winston-Salem https://www.midnightandindigo.com/last-historian-in-winston-salem/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 04:00:51 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=79722 Visiting my grandfather in North Carolina was nothing short of a civic wonderland. Before my feet had even crossed the flaxen welcome mat, I was being ordered, per our routine, to list each U.S. state and capital in alphabetical order. “Let’s hear it, Cheyenne…” he would govern. And, like a soldier appeasing her Lieutenant, I began to rattle names off. “Alabama, Montgomery. Alaska, Juneau. Arizona…Phoenix.” “Go on…” “Arkansas, Little Rock. California, Sacramento. Colorado…Denver.” “Good.” Though granddad’s figure was long and weathered, his mind was unrivaled. To me, he stood something like the old redwood trees in Downtown Cary, tall and

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