Rev. Hiram Earl Myers, pastor of the City Road Methodist Church and President of the Elizabeth City Kiwanis Club, will hardly recognize himself in the above pen and ink sketch, but he will have to stand for it because every embryo artist has to begin on somebody. The sketch is by Wilborne Harrell, a Senior in the Elizabeth City High School. Young Mr. Harrell has developed remarkable ability as an illustrator, but has never tried portrait work. This newspaper has set him about the experiment of developing his talents by making pen and ink sketches of local celebrities. Parson Myers is the first sufferer. Others will follow. Now watch Wilborne Harrell improve in his work and develop the technique of a real artist.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Sept. 29, 1922
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