Esthetic, maybe amendment hesic, maybe a better word would be snobbery. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Welcome to lynchburg, virginia, on booktv. Located in the foothills of the blue Ridge Mountains along the james river, it has a population of about 80,000 people. Founded in 1757, lynchburg was named more its founder for its founder, john lynch. The city is home to poplar forest, Thomas Jeffersons private retreat. And with the help of our Comcast Cable partners, for the next 90 minutes well feature the citys Literary History beginning with poet ann spencer. Ann spencer was a poet, an american poet mostly associated with the harlem renaissance period in 19241945. How she becomes part of the harlem renaissance is how harlem comes to lynchburg. Unfortunately, theres a whole group of people who are associated with that period of time like ann spencer that people dont know about. Ann spencer was born in 1882 in henry county, virginia, which is southwestern vir
This house has now been changed a lot. We only had four rooms in it and no Running Water. We had a faucet on the outside. Theres a couple who lives here now, they allowed me to come into this house when i was writing my book, because i wanted to see what it looked like on the inside. And nick, and i forgot his wifes name, they said its the best of all possible worlds. And i said the same thing when we lived here. My brother said this was the best years of his life he spent here on 10 mckinley street. We knew that we were poor. I grew up in poverty. I knew i was poor, there was no doubt about that. When we lived on mckinley on polk street, at 76 polk street, we had Running Water inside, but we didnt have any electricity. And i was standing, i would sit on our front porch and look across the street to the patricks house, and they had electricity because they had a light, a porch light. And i said, well, we dont have a porch light. Why dont we have is electricity . We just cant afford tha