Forsyth County Public Library Welcomes New Photograph Collection Librarian

The Forsyth County Public Library’s North Carolina Collection welcomed a new staff member in October. Cade Carlson is the new photograph collection librarian in charge of caring for the library’s extensive photograph collections and responding to Digital Forsyth requests. Cade graduated from the UNC School of Information and Library Science where his focus was on…

House History Hunting.

Have you ever wondered about your home's history or the people who lived there before you? Ever caught yourself saying, "If these walls could talk"?  Perhaps we can help. The North Carolina Collection has some great resources for hunting down your home's history. First, begin with a deed search which you can do online at…

How to get to the new North Carolina Room…

As always, click the pictures for full size First, the parking plan. All parking is free, but the surface lot and under building area have no time limits, while the street parking has the usual two hour restriction: The surface parking lot is diagonally across the Fifth / Spring Street intersection from the Central Library...…

ID help needed…

Definitely a long shot, but no reason not to try. Someone dropped this photograph off at Malloy-Jordan Heritage Center the other day. They knew nothing about it. Nor do we. Take a look...if you see something you recognize, let us know...

Award Winning Molly

Congratulations to the North Carolina Room's own Molly Grogan Rawls for receiving this year's Archie K.Davis Award from the Wachovia Historical Society. Molly is the library's photograph librarian and author of several books on local history told largely through historic images. For more information on the award and a list of previous recipients go here.…

Emmy winner…

In an earlier life I wrote and/or directed and/or produced dozens of TV commercials and marketing films. In more recent times I have been in a number of documentary films. But I've never been in a film that won an Emmy until now. "Merger:  Making the Twin City" had its world premier at a/perture on…

R.J. Reynolds house, 666 West Fith Street…

This is an updated version of a post made on January 29, 2014, which was an update of an earlier post. In the very first post we were able to establish a correct date for the "R.J. Reynolds house", but were unable, until now, to say for certain who actually built the house. Yesterday, I…

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…

In de still of de night…

The original post here contained some errors, partly because of a vast repository of flawed information about John Casper, but mostly because of my failure to do a thorough job of double and triple checking sources. That has now been done. Mea culpa. The opening of Sutler's Spirit, the first legal distillery in the city…

A 1940ish group…updat 002…

A lot of very smart people visit our blog. Here is what one of them has to say about the "1940ish" picture: "Ten women,and twenty-seven men with no dogs or children, exceedingly odd for a church picture. It's cold and the site has been chosen, indeed well known for a group shot in bleacher style.…