The great Mel Tomlinson, Raleigh’s finest home-grown dancer, a man who battled the Grim Reaper in the late ’90s and lived to tell the tale, has died.

The News & Record article is here: https://www.greensboro.com/life/mel-tomlinson-pioneering-ballet-star-with-winston-salem-uncsa-ties/article_8a0fb67c-0e39-5332-bf9e-b39e28d0c14e.html

For more information, see https://ncheritagecalendar.com/honorees/mel-tomlinson/ and https://www.ncpedia.org/tomlinson-mel.