On April 23, 2024, Verna Laboy will bring to life renowned African-American millionaire Annie Fisher, highlighting the importance of historic preservation.
Laboy will impersonate Fisher in a performance at the 6 p.m. CoMo Preservation meeting in the Friends Room at the Columbia Public Library. This meeting is free and open to the public.
What? Don’t know who Annie Fisher is? That may be because both of her mansions, one a 14-room brick house at 608 Park Avenue and the other a restaurant/mansion known as the Wayside Inn or as Fair Oaks at 2911 Old Highway 63, were demolished, erasing reminders of her as a historical figure and an against-all-odds successful entrepreneur.