Goldsboro

Spent the week in Goldsboro. Mostly at the O’Berry Center which is a residential campus for folks with serious mental retardation. While you feel a bit down at the disability that these people contend with, at the same time, O’Berry Center is a cheerful and happy place where there’s lots of TLC.

While we were there, the annual fund raising cookout was held. Day staff arrived early around 4 AM to start cooking the chicken and preparing slaw, potato salad and tea. Lunch starts at 1100 and goes till about 1500. Lot’s of people drive out to pick up the $6 lunch. Proceeds go to funding resident programs.

Also had some work at the Cherry Farm nearby. Cherry as in name, not the crop. Cheery Farm does research with crops and livestock. There’s an old family cemetery on the farm which is kept up by the farm employees. It's a very nice setting.

When in Goldsboro, it’s required that you eat at Wilbur’s Bar-b-Que out on Highway 70 East. I think it's a State Law or something. Most people would get a post card or photo of the restaurant. I think it's cooler to get a photo of the cooking shed out back. This is where the hogs are slow cooked over hickory. Since it's live coals and open fire, the cooking shed is in a building separate from the main restaurant.