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A Celebration of Furniture & Music

More than 200 furniture companies in North Carolina have closed over the past decade. This weekend in High Point – there is a festival to celebrate the region’s unique history. 

The High Point Theatre is hosting the first annual – “Carolina Crossroads – A Celebration of Music and Furniture.”  Tonight the theatre will show the film – “With These Hands.”  It captures the last days of the Hooker Furniture Plant in Martinsville, Virginia.

Clyde Hooker Jr.:  "Really, there’s no satisfaction in doing a sorry job. If you look at somebody and you’re painting a portrait, or you’re polishing a piece of furniture.  There’s no satisfaction in doing it poorly, the satisfaction comes from doing it well."

Tomorrow night will feature musicians known to draw from North Carolina’s long history in furniture and manufacturing, including The Harris Brothers and Wayne Henderson. 

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
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