Every small town has at least one person who isn’t afraid of what the neighbors think and in Barco, North Carolina – population 759 – that guy is Paul Robinson, owner of the Currituck BBQ Company.
Robinson says he’s blessed and cursed with a belief that “everything is doable” and an example of this approach is behind his restaurant on Caratoke Highway.
It’s a 1920s school for Black children that Robinson bought and had moved because no one else would step up to save it…