We started our day with a drive to Greensboro were we visited the International Civic Rights Museum in the original Woolworth store where 4 black youths sat at the counter to be served in 1963.
Next was Guildford Courthouse Battlefield from the Revolutionary War. We did not win this battle but tired the Redcoats out enabling us to win at Yorktown. It's an interesting story surrounding how this national park came to be. Some guy bought the land because he knew it was near a battlefield but then he didn't have all his facts right so the battle lines and other facts had to be revised. At least he had the good sense to preserve it.
Next we drove to Winston-Salem to visit Reynolda, the home of RJ Reynolds & his wife. We wanted to tour the house but it was be renovated so we just viewed the art. Not that much art so kind of boring. In between rain storm we toured the gardens so that rescued our visit. Then it was off to dinner and hotel.
Our hotel was the original HQ for the RJ Reynolds company. It is an art decor building supposedly an inspiration for NYC Chrysler Building. It's a great looking building that is part hotel and part apartments with a great basement with awesome workout room, slide, bowling lanes and basketball court. Sounds amazing but true, we saw it with our own eyes. The slide was not that much fun.
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