On my way to visit family, I stopped in Historic Halifax, North Carolina, which houses a Visitor Center and several restored buildings dating from the town’s long-gone prosperous heyday. The Visitor Center houses a small museum and theater, where a 13-minute film is shown explaining the significance of the town from its beginning as a river port in the colonial era to its participation in the Revolutionary War to its business and cultural decline in the 1830s. The museum features colonial lifestyle, clothing, ships, and artifact exhibits (with the seemingly obligatory questions pasted onto boards that can be lifted for the answers) along with exhibits on the underground railroad and the nation’s first black southern published poet George Moses Horton.