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Lindy Pierce is one of the countless volunteers who helped rebuild eastern North Carolina after Floyd. Traveling with her church group from Dover, Delaware, Lindy made her first trip to Tarboro in June 2000 when she was only fifteen. Among her projects was the repair of the Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church in Princeville. She was interviewed by phone in May 2002.

"... we repaired a historically black church. It was the first black church in North Carolina, I believe, and it had been completely covered in water--the only thing that had been left exposed was the steeple. Everything had to be repaired. The entire inside had to be gutted out and redone. You could see the waterlines all the way up to the top of the church. We had to redo probably twelve of the thirty stained-glass windows. My best friend and I worked on the belltower, which had to be completely refinished. There were no steps anymore, and everything was torn down or washed away."