Author Talk with Ricky Allred

Name: Author Talk with Ricky Allred
Start: 2026-04-30T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Randolph County Public Libraries

Schedule

Thu, 30 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Randolph County Public Libraries | Asheboro, NC

Local historian Ricky Allred discusses Randolph County’s role in caring for its neediest citizens in a talk at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 30, at the Asheboro library.
Allred is author of The Least of These: Caring for the Poor in Randolph County, N.C., 1794-1922, published in 2025. The book chronicles the provisions for caring for those who could not take care of themselves, from the parish-based system of colonial times through the post-independence shift to county responsibility and the creation of a county Poor House, to the beginnings of state supervision following the Civil War, and finally to the replacement of the Poor House with a modern County Home in 1922.
While legal and government structure frame the historical account, stories Allred has uncovered of individuals within the system — both care recipients and caregivers — give color to the statistics and vitality to the narrative. Allred’s interest in history springs from deep family roots in Randolph County, and has led to research into a variety of local history topics. He is known for his “Walk Through the Past” tours of the Old Asheboro Cemetery.