Paxton Street

This is a book of short vignettes written by Leontyne Clay Peck about her memories of growing up in the African American Community of Piedmont, West Virginia. Piedmont, West Virginia is the hometown of the Jazz musician Don Redman, U.S. Senator Henry Gassaway Davis, War Hero Aubrey Stewart and Harvard University scholar, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. It is also the home of the West Virginia State Champion Basketball Team-The Piedmont Lions!