Hilltop Neighborhood History Walking Tour

Leafleting for Red Elm Cafe

Today I attended the Hilltop Neighborhood History Walking Tour in cool morning weather that began to warm as we finished.  It was nearly eleven o'clock, and Council Member Keith Blocker, one of the guides, was to appear at the start of the Hilltop Street Fair.  During the walk we saw the Street Fair begin to set up, a perfect plan for a Walking Tour - we could walk in the street.

At the Allen AME we visited the foyer art that memorializes the deaths in Charleston.  From the foyer we could view the AME Stage as it set up,  across the street is the Valhalla Hall.

1995 or 1996 Grill

Plans at the building (The Kellogg-Sicker Building) that had been the Economy Drug, where my father worked as a pharmacist, and had been the Browne's Star Grill, appear to be steadily moving forward.  A representative of a cafe that will open there in the autumn handed out leaflets for the Red Elm Cafe.  At an earlier (1995 or 1996) History Walk I took a picture of the Star Grill.

Kellogg-Sicker Building

The History Guide for the Walk was the guide who led the tour in 1995 (or 1996).  It was great to hear his presentation and to go along with a History Walk with the city again.