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Mildred Moore is busy with her favorite activity: making houses from clothespins during arts and crafts time. At 80 years old, this spirited woman has raised up two generations of Scotland Neck youth – whom she fondly calls “her babies” – at the Scotland Neck Recreation and Education Foundation, otherwise known as “SNERF,” the afterschool program she founded. A Scotland Neck native, Moore and her six siblings grew up on the sharecropping farm that her father tended. Although she spent most of her adult life in Washington D.C., Moore returned to her hometown in 1997 with a vision to create “a clean, safe haven” for the community’s youth. She raised money, gathered volunteers, and even whipped out her own handsaw to cut down the trees that were standing in the way. Nearly 20 years later, different names and faces fill the brick building on East 11th Street, but Moore can still be seen there on weekday afternoons, shaping Scotland Neck children into future leaders, day by day and stick by stick.

Photographed, Wednesday, November 8, 2017, in Scotland Neck, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD / Perfecta Visuals
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Mildred Moore is busy with her favorite activity: making houses from clothespins during arts and crafts time. At 80 years old, this spirited woman has raised up two generations of Scotland Neck youth – whom she fondly calls “her babies” – at the Scotland Neck Recreation and Education Foundation, otherwise known as “SNERF,” the afterschool program she founded. A Scotland Neck native, Moore and her six siblings grew up on the sharecropping farm that her father tended. Although she spent most of her adult life in Washington D.C., Moore returned to her hometown in 1997 with a vision to create “a clean, safe haven” for the community’s youth. She raised money, gathered volunteers, and even whipped out her own handsaw to cut down the trees that were standing in the way. Nearly 20 years later, different names and faces fill the brick building on East 11th Street, but Moore can still be seen there on weekday afternoons, shaping Scotland Neck children into future leaders, day by day and stick by stick.<br /> <br /> Photographed, Wednesday, November 8, 2017, in Scotland Neck, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD / Perfecta Visuals