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For The Love Of Movies... Can We Talk?Birthplace Homes Of Nina Simone, Jimi Hendrix, Rosa Parks To Be Restored On Reality TV Show
For the last 10 years, since her death in 2003, a plan to preserve the house where she was born in Tryon, at 30 E. Livingston St, has been in the works, which will make the home a lasting memorial, in honor of Simone, her talent and accomplishments. And that effort will apparently be documented in a new reality TV series, which will see home restoration company Nineteenth Century Restorations, restore houses that were the birthplaces and childhood homes of celebrities.
Other birthplace homes that are on the list for possible restoration on this reality TV show, include the birth homes of Rosa Parks, Jimi Hendrix, Woodie Guthrie, and others.
Those involved in the project envision kind of niche series where "reality TV and documentaries come together."
PBS and the History Channel are seen as potential homes for the series.
There's a lengthier version of the story which you're encouraged to read via Blue Ridge Now, the Hendersonville, NC news site, HERE.
4 Comments
ALM | February 12, 2013 10:11 PM
Nice
urbanauteur | February 11, 2013 7:02 PM
How about Cosmopolitan Eartha Kitt?, Columbia,South Carolina. John Coltrane? High Point, North Carolina. Richard Wright? Roxie, Mississippi. Garrett A. Morgan? Cleveland, Ohio(invention years).
Ava | February 11, 2013 6:22 PM
I hope this will air on PBS, in the way This Old House is available, so people can also go online as well.
lilkunta | February 11, 2013 5:55 PM
this is great! are all these homes not being lived in now?