The Rose

The Rose is a narrative journey covering four generations of the Baylord Family from rural North Carolina to Harlem New York in the early 1940s. A journey filled with visions and dreams of bright lights, fortune, and new beginnings in the fast-paced streets of the new promise land; Harlem, New York. As the elder of his two younger siblings, David Baylord takes you on a thirty-year journey filled with love, excitement, raw emotion, drama, intrigue, and mystery.

Travel with him as he takes you through the swinging era of the 40s, the growing pains of the 50s, and the turbulent and volatile years of the 1960s. David's narrative closely follows the intriguing and provocative life of his headstrong baby sister Rose after she decides to follow him and his younger brother, Lil Will, to Harlem to fulfill her dream of becoming a dancer.

Rose quickly learns the paths she'll travel are not always straight, but filled with winding roads and sometimes, dead-end streets. Frankie David Rawlerson displays an amazing gift of historical insight as he takes you back into a bygone era and explores the detailed lives and events of exciting people and places, as though he were personally an eyewitness of a time preceding his years.