Article: CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH STOMPIN' AT THE SAVOY THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE VISITS NORFOLK.(LOCAL)

Byline: DENISE WATSON, staff writer

NORFOLK -- Lakeshia Moton finally got a taste of what her great-grandmother used to call ``those good ol' days for black folks.''

Moton, 16, strolled Thursday along Ruffner Middle School's version of 1920s Lenox Avenue, a recreation of the heyday of the Harlem Renaissance.

She had just missed the children selling paper fish and newspapers outside the Renaissance Casino and Ballroom.

Moton tapped her toes in the ``Home of the Happy Feet,'' a science room transformed into the Savoy Ballroom, before passing a group of young boys shooting marbles outside The Cotton Club.

``My great-grandmother ...

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