Post by Brian on Apr 24, 2009 21:21:57 GMT -5
12/20/06 at 07:06 AM
Maria
In the 1980's I was a volunteer with Project New-Start, a program under the umbrella of United Way. We were a group of volunteers who went into the Forsyth County Jail and Women's Prison in Raleigh each week and visited the female inmates and worked with them and their children to try and help them break the cycle of crime they were in, etc. One afternoon we had an appointment with a young woman in the program we were trying to help, but she never showed for her appointment which was unusual for her. The next morning we found out why. She had been brutally raped and murdered and left tied to a tree where she died. In fact she was being murdered at the moment she was suppose to be at the y for her appointement. We were going to give her some free bus tickets that day because she had no car and no way other than walking to get around. I attended this young woman's funeral several days later. Thanksgiving week-end of last month as one of the people we interviewed for our documentary and I were riding down Payne Road he said "Maria, you see that tree over tree there' as he pointed to the right, a woman from Winston-Salem was raped and stabbed there and left tied to that tree where she died sometime around 1985." He did not know at that time that I knew the woman he was talking about. Nor did I know anything about Payne Road at the time she was murdered when I knew her. A chill came over me as I realized that the woman he was talking about was the young woman who missed her appointment with us that day and whose funeral I had attended. I just sat and stared at that tree as I realized that Payne Road had just become personal to me. And I did not like that feeling. Maria Christina
MARIA
12/24/06 at 01:53 PM
Matt32
wow, even I didn't know That story, i remember back in those days though, and now when people ask where I got my strong social consience from, i think back to those project newstart days and remember how strong an advocate you were, how tirelessly you fought for the rights of those cast out by the community And for their families, often against overwhelmingly negative odds before i answer, i Think i even remember the case you're talking about from back when it happened by how broke up over it you were, although there were So many heartbreaking stories during that period and i was so young.
payne road has So many more stories attached to it than Any one of us could possibly know that I'd love to see this board used as a repository for everyone else's experiences on the road, the bridge, the house, and what you've heard lay behind the legends...
many can do what no One can-together, we Can beat domestic violence-
Maria
In the 1980's I was a volunteer with Project New-Start, a program under the umbrella of United Way. We were a group of volunteers who went into the Forsyth County Jail and Women's Prison in Raleigh each week and visited the female inmates and worked with them and their children to try and help them break the cycle of crime they were in, etc. One afternoon we had an appointment with a young woman in the program we were trying to help, but she never showed for her appointment which was unusual for her. The next morning we found out why. She had been brutally raped and murdered and left tied to a tree where she died. In fact she was being murdered at the moment she was suppose to be at the y for her appointement. We were going to give her some free bus tickets that day because she had no car and no way other than walking to get around. I attended this young woman's funeral several days later. Thanksgiving week-end of last month as one of the people we interviewed for our documentary and I were riding down Payne Road he said "Maria, you see that tree over tree there' as he pointed to the right, a woman from Winston-Salem was raped and stabbed there and left tied to that tree where she died sometime around 1985." He did not know at that time that I knew the woman he was talking about. Nor did I know anything about Payne Road at the time she was murdered when I knew her. A chill came over me as I realized that the woman he was talking about was the young woman who missed her appointment with us that day and whose funeral I had attended. I just sat and stared at that tree as I realized that Payne Road had just become personal to me. And I did not like that feeling. Maria Christina
MARIA
12/24/06 at 01:53 PM
Matt32
wow, even I didn't know That story, i remember back in those days though, and now when people ask where I got my strong social consience from, i think back to those project newstart days and remember how strong an advocate you were, how tirelessly you fought for the rights of those cast out by the community And for their families, often against overwhelmingly negative odds before i answer, i Think i even remember the case you're talking about from back when it happened by how broke up over it you were, although there were So many heartbreaking stories during that period and i was so young.
payne road has So many more stories attached to it than Any one of us could possibly know that I'd love to see this board used as a repository for everyone else's experiences on the road, the bridge, the house, and what you've heard lay behind the legends...
many can do what no One can-together, we Can beat domestic violence-