Summertime Memories – Part 2
August and heat are synonymous in the South. Sometimes, you just have to cool off, so the old water hole is a great place to meet your buddies and take a dip. Not everyone...
Tagged: Tanglewood Park
December 12, 1954: Tanglewood’s Book of Remembrance
The Garden Council members announced on this day in 1954 that they have given “The Book of Remembrance” to the Tanglewood Arboretum fund. It was given in honor of the late Miss Edna Maslin....
September 26:Happy Birthday! Frank Lustig
Frank Lustig was born on this day as “Franz Josef” in 1905, in Germany, to Karl and Helen Lustig. He had studied and worked with master gardeners, and came to Winston-Salem in 1928. He was...
June 25,1958: Opening Night for Tanglewood Theatre
A new theatre opened on this evening in 1958. The new Tanglewood Theatre presented “The Tender Trap,” the first play for the first season of professional summer stock. The location for the theatre was...
March 22: Happy Birthday! William Neal Reynolds
William Neal Reynolds was born in Patrick County, Virginia, in 1863 to Hardin and Nancy Reynolds. He attended Trinity College (later Duke University), and joined his brother, Richard J. Reynolds, in the tobacco business...
March 10,1963: Steeplechase in Tanglewood Park’s Future
The Winston-Salem Journal announced on this date that a Tanglewood Hunt Racing Committee has been formed for the Steeplechase races that will take place on April 27th, 1963, at Tanglewood Park. This date marked...
January 21: Happy Birthday! William Reynolds Lybrook
William “Bill” Reynolds Lybrook was born in Forsyth County in 1912. Bill’s great uncle was William Neal Reynolds, and Bill spent a lot of his childhood at his uncle’s home, Tanglewood. He also lived there...