Dream to save historic ‘eyesore’ became BBQ restaurant owner’s 10-year obsession

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…

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