September 30:Happy Birthday! Velma Preslar McGee
Velma Preslar McGee was born on this day in 1911, in Union County, to M. L. D. and Effie Jane Preslar. She was a graduate of Meredith College, and she was honored by her...
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September 30,1953: Visitors from Hollywood
Television was in its infancy in 1953 when Mary Pickford and her husband, Buddy Rogers, visited Winston-Salem as stockholders of WSJS Television. Mary Pickford, known as America’s first sweetheart of the movies, was enthusiastic...