Nina Simone Project - Tryon, NC

07/26/2024

So moving to hear, after so long a silence, the bells of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, in tge opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic 2024 Live.

07/13/2024

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The Saluda Grade Trail was awarded a $450,000 grant; it is one of four projects throughout Appalachia to be selected for one.

06/28/2024

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NC Arts Council features Tryon's NINA SIMONE mural in the June newsletter, "Art Matters."

https://mailchi.mp/dncr/art-matters-june-13424809

(Mural of Nina Simone painted and photographed by Scott Nurkin for the North Carolina Musician Murals Project)

05/02/2024

“O Happy Day”—as the official announcement was made today that the final phase of rehabilitation to the Nina Simone Childhood Home will begin in less than a month!

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The childhood home of Nina Simone is set to undergo major repairs and rehabilitation in June.

05/01/2024

Two of my favorite male actors, along with one of my favorite female singers, in an excerpt from SHERLOCK.

This is from season 2, episode 3. The song is "Nina Simone - Sinnerman" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtHyBABbtL4)I liked it so much I had to cut it and p...

04/24/2024

04/21/2024

I am delighted to relay on this Gospel day that the final engraved bricks for the Nina Simone Project’s Nina Simone Plaza have been acquitted—which, in effect, closes out this large-scale phase element of the NSP.
Thank you Audrey Horton Shifflett and Kathryn Williams!
My last brick donation contains an unreferenced Alfred Lord Tennyson quote which has long served as a guiding principle in most all of my life endeavors—TO STRIVE, TO SEEK, TO FIND, AND NOT TO YEILD.
“Consummatum est”
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04/18/2024

I account myself a most fortunate man to have been principally associated—in private and public life—with four noble legacy projects: and each and all with notable, and even distinguished, end results.
And Preston Residential College is one of those projects, in its earliest founding years, as Assistant Principal & Business Manager, with both Kevin and Becky Lewis, as founding Principals and Ken and Margaret Perkins, as the subsequent, next Principals—all, of course, under Don Greiner’s tenure as Provost and Palms tenure as President of the University of South Carolina.
Modeled on Oxbridge, Preston was constitutes with 242 hand-selected students from all majors, half male, half female, half regular track, half honors track, and including 30 faculty professors, with an Assistant Principal/Business Manager and a faculty Principal the College.
Without a doubt, eight of the most phenomenally compelling and ideologically dynamic years of my entire existence.

Preston Residential College houses the Preston Residential Learning Community. In this video, University Housing will walk you through their community as wel...

02/21/2024

Today would have been Eunice Kathleen Waymon’s (ama Nina Simone’s) 91st birthday.
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Still photography video of Nina Simone sculpture model preview in Tryon, NC on Sunday, 11 October 2009 in Nina Simone Plaza. Sculpture commissioned by Nina ...

02/19/2024

From the BBC

In these exclusive BBC archive clips, Nina Simone describes how she used her remarkable voice to demand equality for black Americans in the 1960s.

01/20/2024

Very pleased to learn and relay that my a ca****la Latin choral anthem “Vidit Jesus” is being performed tomorrow during the 11:00 service at St John's In The Village.
If you fancy a listen, tune into the 11:00 am webcast at: https://www.stjvny.org/sunday-21-january-third-sunday-after-epiphany. Or, the Youtube archive of the service afterwards at your convenient.