Gloucester residents may be familiar with T.C. Walker only from his portrait on the Main Street mural. Or maybe they’ve heard his name if they’ve ever gone to a meeting at the county’s Thomas Calhoun Walker Education Center.
The Gloucester Museum of History is working to make sure Walker’s life and legacy are remembered beyond those fleeting and superficial mentions … and in his own words.
The Gloucester Museum Foundation has just published a book called “Lawyer Walker of Gloucester.” This book is Florence Lattimore’s manuscript, which was the basis for “The Honey-Pod Tree: The Life Story of Thomas Calhoun Walker.”
Gloucester Museum of History interns Trina Dugan and Tori Bridges committed hundreds of hours to the yearlong project of editing the manuscript. This was done under the help and direction of the Gloucester Museums Coordinator Robert Kelly with the main goal to enhance the accessibility of the manuscript to the public.
In the editor’s note of the book, there were three main g...