Local organizations give back
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On Monday, Nov. 23, recording artist and Winston-Salem native, Young Fletcher assisted Neighborhood’s Hands and Urban Strategies, Inc. with distributing 1200 boxes
of food in the Cleveland Avenue area, where Fletcher grew up. “It was pleasure to give back to the community I grew up in. It was good just to be a blessing, ” said Fletcher.
City legend has book dedication at alma mater
BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY
THE CHRONICLE
Winston-Salem legend
and 32nd degree Prince
Hall Mason, Ben Piggott,
donated autographed cop
ies of his book, “The Life
and Times of Four Grand
Masters: James W. Hood,
George W. White, James
H. Young and James E.
Shepard of the Most Wor
shipful Prince Hall Grand
Lodge Free and Accepted
Masons of North Carolina
and Jurisdiction, Inc.,” to
his alma mater, Living
stone College, earlier this
month.
Piggott co-wrote the
book with Lenwood G.
Davis, who is now de
ceased, in 2016. Piggott is
a graduate of Livingstone
College where he received
a B.S. in physical educa
tion and health science. He
was made a Master Mason
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in May of 1992 in Salem
Lodge #139 in Winston-
Salem.
The book centers on the
major contributions that
the four men made to the
community and beyond.
The fruits of their labor can
still be seen to this day.
“The book is about four
Grand Master Masons that
did a lot for the commu
nity,” said Piggott. “The
book ties in a lot of his
tory from a lot of areas and
it makes you feel good to
make reference to it.”
There was a ceremony
held earlier this month to
commemorate the donat-
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Ben Piggott donated signed copies of his book to his
alma mater, Livingstone College.
ing of the books to Living
stone College. Piggott was
honored to have his book
celebrated by his alma ma
ter.
“Some people think
that just graduating from a
college was a great thing,
but the greatest thing is
not to graduate, it’s to give
back,” he said. “It made
me feel good to bring back
a manifested truth that
was there, but was never
printed. This is very, very
humbling for me and I take
none of this for granted.
“When you go to an
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