Eatonville: The historic town of Zora Neale Hurston

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Growing up, I learned a lot about Black history. Of course, I learned some things about Zora Neale Hurston, but nothing about Eatonville, Florida – her hometown. It was not until I began visiting Bus Boys and Poets Restaurant in Washington, D.C. that I learned about Eatonville. I met the owner Andy Shallal. He named rooms in his restaurant for historic places and figures, and I became curious about the town. Later I became a member of the Board of the World Conference of Mayors and learned about Historic Black Towns and Settlements. The organization holds its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida a few miles from Eatonville, and we always attend the Zora Festival after our conference. This year we held our meetings in Eatonville and learned so much history! Related Stories Zora Neale Hurston. If you don’t know Hurston, let me introduce her. She is the sister who said “I think that you will discover that my viewpoint is that I do not consider Negroes as special additives among humanity. I see us as people, subject to the same desires and emotions as others…That is the way I see Negroes, and that is the way I write...