We just want to keep it this way so that people can see how they lived in this community in those days. This is a way to honor my grandparents.

Grandma was a Grogan and had come from a section of Dobson known as Freetown. Grandma's father had earned his freedom by working nights and weekends.

All we could think about was our grandparents and how they worked too hard to let it just fall down.

Grandpa was such a phenomenal person when I think about it. When he was 9, he served a family for six months so that his family could have a cow, and they were good to him. On Saturdays, his mother would walk to see him.... It didn't kill their spirit. They weren't bitter.

I think this is wonderful for the city that the community center is here to help people.

I have known the family for 40 years. They are an asset to the community.