February 11: Happy Birthday! Ruth Crist Blackwell
Ruth Estelle Crist was born in Salem on this date in 1887. She was the daughter of Harvey S. and Christina Jones Crist, and she was descended from some of the early Moravian settlers...
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February 11, 1956: Ernie Shore Field Named
The new baseball field on the corner of Shorefair Drive and Thirtieth Street was named in honor of Ernie Shore, former Forsyth County Sheriff and Boston Red Sox pitcher. The first baseball game was...