
Sanders recalls telling stories at a place known as the ‘storytelling rock.’ Dori and her sisters and brothers would gather there for hours sharing all sorts of stories. In addition to the farm, Sanders credits the farm’s location as an early inspiration for her writing.

The farm produces fruits and vegetables and specializes in growing Georgia Bells and Elberta peaches which are sold at an old fashioned roadside stand.” Her family operates one of the oldest African-American farms in the region (her father, a former sharecropper, bought the land around 1915.). Īccording to the author’s website, “Dori Sanders is from Filbert, SC, a tiny community in York County, near Rock Hill, SC, and Charlotte, NC. In search of the very-hard-to-find rain crow.” –Dori Sanders, CloverĪn Author Adventures reader brought to our attention an unusual and flavorful literary landmark near Rock Hill, South Carolina, the roadside farm-to-table peach stand of author Dori Sanders, a best-selling novelist, cookbook author, and granddaughter of a freed enslaved person.


In the evening twilight we walked hand in hand Clovers ©Author Adventures Rock Hill Literary Landmark #1: Sanders Peaches
