The Chester County Historical Society met on August 5 at the Senior Center. A large crowd heard Al Price present a history from slavery to the Civil Rights era. His focus was Fayette County’s Tent City, some of whose occupants later settled in Chester County. In the audience were several including the Earlie Williams family, who had made this county transition along with others who had assisted in this journey. “Mary and Earlie Williams, their children, and all the others who came here from Tent City escaped their bondage and found their freedom on a parcel of Canaan while they still lived. Even though they bear on their bodies the marks of the Civil Rights struggle, to paraphrase the words of William Faulkner, they ‘endured and they prevailed.’”
