As Nina Simone enters Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, NC hometown keeps her memory alive
TRYON, N.C. — Humble beginnings don’t get much humbler than where Nina Simone grew up.It’s in east Tryon, a neighborhood of low rolling hills and hollers, where the homes look like they’re being swallowed by the landscape. The modest three-room structure is more cabin than a house, a 660-square-foot structure that looks much the same as it must have when Simone was born here as Eunice Waymon in 1933.But it’s still where a musical legacy began, one that has belatedly […]
