TRYON—The latest installment in the Tryon History Museum’s Tales of Tryon series, shared through the generosity of the Polk County Community Foundation, will be presented on Thursday, September 11, at Holy Cross Parish Hall.
Lawyer, scholar, raconteur, and font of local information, Andy Haynes, will hold forth on the legacy of his great-grandmother, Emma Payne Erskine, one of the first in a long line of women who have helped make Tryon history the unique and colorful mélange that it is.
Writer, painter, civic leader, and center of influence, Emma Payne Erskine was the daughter of an artist. Born in Racine, Wisconsin, in 1854, she married Charles Erskine, son of a partner in the J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company, in 1873…