May Feast: Strawberry Gelato
The bounty of fresh local strawberries naturally leads to discovering new recipes for this delicious fruit. Gelato is a refreshing, cool treat for warm spring and summer days, and is not difficult to make with...
Monthly Archive: May 2016
Do you Know? Answers to quiz on Winston-Salem’s Historic Salem Cemetery book
Here are the answers to the quiz posted on May 18th. How did you do? Winston-Salem’s only claim to a NC Governor. Robert B. Glenn The man who had careers in whiskey distribution and...
Do You Know? 20 questions based on Winston-Salem’s Historic Salem Cemetery book
Here’s a quiz for Winston-Salem history buffs, based on my new book, Winston-Salem’s Historic Salem Cemetery. See how well you know the people who lived and worked in Winston-Salem. I’ll post the answers on...
Then & Now: Brookberry Farm
Bowman Gray Jr. (1907-1969) and his wife, Elizabeth Palmer Christian Gray (1915-1974), began buying land for Brookberry Farm in 1946. They built a home on the farm, which consisted of 795 acres on the outskirts...
Advertising for Women in the Early 1900s
Early 1900s newspaper advertisements often focused on modern appliances that were developed to make household chores easier on women. Here are a few of the advertisements that I’ve come across in the local newspapers...