""This whole neighborhood was full of Black luminaries. We had salons on the weekends. We'd meet in someone's apartment, and there would be music and people would bring food.""
""The thick of it went on for two years. Every Sunday afternoon.""
""I may have been the first person to see the hamburgers. I came home from school, and he was out on the street ready to ambush me so I'd check out his latest stuff.""
""Every surface of the four floors in the 1896 He...""
George Nelson Preston grew up in Sugar Hill during the 1940s, surrounded by Harlem Renaissance icons. His parents nurtured his artistic interests, leading him to the High School of Music & Art and later City College. He hosted poetry readings at his loft, frequented by Beat poets. Preston became a scholar in African art, earning a Ph.D. from Columbia. Now 87, he resides in the Jumel Terrace Historic District, close to his childhood home, which his mother purchased to keep him nearby.
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