March 2: Happy Birthday! John Wesley Clay
John Wesley Clay was born in Caldwell County in 1880. He began his working career at age 11 as a printer’s devil on the Hickory Press and Carolinian. After his marriage to Myrtle...
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March 2, 1981: Soup Kitchen Opens
Winston-Salem’s first free soup kitchen in more than 50 years opened on this day in 1981. The city had a soup kitchen at the start of the Great Depression in 1930, but it was...