HIGH POINT
Vivian Moser Washingtonâs house on E. Commerce Avenue looks pretty much the same as it did when she was growing up there. Same small, two-story frame. Same front porch. Same two upstairs windows that open out onto the roof of the porch.
Whatâs missing are the front-porch columns that once supported the roof. Washington, now 70, says theyâve long since been replaced, but those columns were not insignificant â one morning more than half a century ago, they helped save five childrenâs lives.
Even more significant than those columns was the bravery of Washingtonâs uncle, Robert Cartwright. Sadly, heâs gone now, too, but heâll never be forgotten.