Sketchbook Legacy 2023

While this year's group of artists may be smaller, they have definitely put their heart and soul into their work. Sketchbook Legacy - a project in collaboration with Art for Art's Sake - began in 2020 at Meadowlark Middle School. Ms. Miller offers her 8th grade art students the opportunity to create a sketchbook, (altered…

Sketchbook Legacy 2021

We're back with a whole new group of talented young artists. Sketchbook Legacy - a project in collaboration with Art for Art's Sake - started last year at Meadowlark Middle School. The spring project asked Mrs. Miller's 8th graders to create a sketchbook or altered book. "Stay Positive & Covid Negative" - Kayla Harris Some…

Sketchbook Legacy

Sketchbook Legacy - a project in collaboration with Art of Art's Sake, began at Meadowlark Middle School in Mrs. Miller's art room. The spring project asked her 8th graders to complete a sketchbook or altered book. Some books are based on songs. "Rolling in the Deep" (by Adele) - Emma Hanes "Desperado" (by the Eagles)…

Collection Spotlight

This past week the Forsyth County Central Library was thrilled to partner with The University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Library and Information Studies program to host three graduate students for their Alternative Spring Break program.  The students worked the entire week to inventory and process a new collection the library has received from the…

More City Directories Available

Fresh from the Digital North Carolina Blog  World War II era Winston-Salem city directories now online   Forsyth County Public Library has provided four more city directories documenting Winston Salem and the surrounding area. These directories cover 1940-1945, adding to the set that was previously available. The large volumes can be extremely useful for many types…

A Happy 40 Year Anniversary Celebration

The North Carolina Room turned 40 last week on Monday, June 15th and we had a wonderful celebration. The Friends of the Central Library sponsored our event. Lots of people stopped by to say thanks and to enjoy birthday cake, shortcake, fresh strawberries & blueberries, and lemonade. Balloons and flowers really made the affair festive.…

Collection Spotlight

Our first Collection Spotlight of 2015 features two books from our North Carolina monograph collection.  These books have come to our collection by way of a generous donation of the Bethabara Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. The first, The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook edited by Frances H. Kennedy is a historical account…

70,459 is a lot more than 59,999…

On August 27, 2013 we posted a thank you to our loyal friends for having reached a total of 60,000 hits on our blog. See it here: 60,000 is one more than 59,999… A couple of weeks ago, we hit 70,000, and now the total is 70,459...we've averaged almost 2,500 hits per month since August and…

New Resources for Genealogists

Thanks to the generosity of the Colonel Joseph Winston Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, we're pleased to announce that we now have South Carolina in the American Revolution and New York in the American Revolution by Eric G. Grundset, the first two volumes of the new DAR Source Guides on…

New old maps…

A couple of days ago, while looking for something else, as is often the case, I found a couple of maps that we did not know we had. Both were produced in 1930 by the Winston-Salem Industrial Commission. One shows the rail connections from the Twin City to other destinations in the the Carolinas / Virginia…