TRYON—The Tryon History Museum’s Tales of Tryon series continues Thursday, June 13, with the ever-popular Dr. Warren Carson presenting “Personalities of the Eastside and Environs,” at Roseland Community Center. The presentation will focus on educators, entrepreneurs, and everyday people who built and sustained a vibrant community—one that has been integral to Tryon’s history.
Community—people bound together by common interests and values to achieve a common purpose—is a concept not to be taken for granted in today’s fast-changing world. As such, it deserves serious thought and attention. No one is better qualified to provide this—and do so in an entertaining fashion—than Carson, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina Upstate.
A product and lifelong resident of a closely-knit community, Tryon’s Eastside, he has devoted his life to community development and betterment as an educator, civic leader, and public servant. In his talk, Carson will tell how entrepreneurs such as James F. Bryan, whose general store on Markham Road was a community hub and gathering place for decades, provided a role model for individual initiative and self-reliance while furnishing basic community needs without the necessity of travel to obtain them.
He will also highlight the community service and involvement of educators like Helen Harris Hannon and Esther Wilkins Robinson, whose molding and shaping of generations of school children built charact.