Lynchburg nonprofit reimagines grocery store as community hub in Black historic district

Lynchburg nonprofit reimagines grocery store as community hub in Black historic district

When Geraldine Wood looks out the window of her Pierce Street home today, she can still picture the bustling neighborhood of her childhood: the Baptist church where she went to Sunday school, the beauty shop tucked in the basement of a home next door, the corner grocery store where she would pick up the “best meat you can think of” for family dinner. She can point to where everyone lived: the tax preparer, the principal, the pastor.  She can rat…