Lisa Clements • Boone NC

This is “the peanut man” of Downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. One Autumn day, back in the early 1970’s, a bus left Western North Carolina to take a group of grade schoolers to the Capitol City. I was excited to be on this trip, and fell in love with Downtown Raleigh, largely due to the “Peanut Man”. You could buy a bag of peanuts from him for 25 cents. The pigeons were happy to land on your hand and eat a few – which I, having never seen a city this big, or pigeons, found absolutely fascinating.