Hymns for Salted Bones: A Re-membering of Hayti Walking Tour

Preservation Durham and Hayti Promise CDC are excited to partner with Whistle Stop Tours to put on a theatrical tour of six homes along the historic Fayetteville Street Corridor, funded through the ARPA grant as part of the Fayetteville Street Corridor Project. The Fayetteville Street Corridor was a crucial part of the Hayti Community, home to many movers and shakers in Durham. Featured along this tour are the Dr. Leroy Swift Office and Residence, the Harriet Tubman YWCA, the Dr. Joseph N. Mills House, the F.K. "Movie King" and Parepa Watkins House, the Page and Sons Grocery Store, and the Scarborough House. Prepare for an immersive storytelling experience centering community testimonies brought to life through performance art. A funeral and a revival, a ritual and a living procession, the tour gathers witnesses to honor Black spaces as sites of care, achievement, displacement, and resilience.

Please park along Simmons and Umstead Street instead of the library parking lot to ensure plenty of parking is available for library patrons. The tour ends at 1406 Fayetteville Street, right beside W.D. Hill Recreation Center. If you would rather park at the ending spot, there is plenty of parking available at the back of W.D. Hill.