I love finding art made by local people about local places in North Carolina – it goes back to that old mystery for me personally – I’ve never understood why this southern area resonates so hard in my soul but it does. I’ve felt like this is my HOME more years than I ever did anywhere else.
And sometimes the emotions are just really unexpectedly strong at times – like with this situation.
We found this at an estate sale, pretty much forgotten, just hanging on a wall, dusty – no price tag. It appeared nobody was interested but I think it’s beautifully done – pencil drawing of a small town grocery store: Brown Summit Grocery.
I’ve been excitedly looking for any information on the artist and the place and today, I found the location where it used to be on Google Maps. And ya’ll.
My heart is literally a little broken from what it showed.
May 2015 is the last time in Google that it had activity – looks like a local salvage kind of sale.
The first pic I found (below) just broke my heart. 
Gets even worse the more I looked – I found this article
STORE’S PART-OWNER CRITICALLY WOUNDED / SHOOTING STUNS COMMUNITY
They had this follow up article.
I still haven’t found any information about the artist but seems good that this little place is remembered in a good way for people like me to find years later.