Flowers for Windsor, NC

Before the highway maps, Windsor was a river town, and it still behaves like one. The blackwater Cashie curls right through the middle of Bertie County's seat, past the old brick storefronts downtown and the boardwalk at the Roanoke-Cashie River Center, and just up the road stands Historic Hope Plantation, the Federal-era home that draws visitors and events year-round. Flowers here move at a small-town pace and along familiar lines: sympathy arrangements to the churches and funeral homes near the courthouse, birthdays and anniversaries to the frame houses on King and Granville, and the occasional wedding or reunion tied to Hope Plantation or a church fellowship hall. There is no hospital in town, so get-well orders tend to route out toward the larger campuses in Williamston or Greenville, but the everyday work stays close and personal.

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