Sorry you missed the Wake Forest Historical Association’s program about moonshine and bootlegging, The Bootleg Economy: Surviving the ‘50s, on Jan. 21? Well, you can enjoy it again and again because the video is now on YouTube.
Just go to https://youtu.be/zl69T_JbiOU. It was filmed by Ryan Keith, one of the association’s board members who also assisted with the program.
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This is Black History Month and listed below are the first seven days of the month with items of interest and history.
Feb. 1 – In 1902 the poet Langston Hughes was born.
Feb. 2 – In 1915 biologist Ernest E. Just was awarded the Spingarn Medal for his research in fertilization and cell division.
Feb. 3 – In 2009 Eric H. Holder Jr. was sworn in as the nation’s first African-American attorney general.
Feb. 4 – In 1913 Rosa Parks was born. She became a civil rights pioneer years before her refusal to give up her seat in a Montgomery, Alabama bus sparked the bus boycott.
Feb. 5 – In 1884 Willis Johnson patented the egg beater.
Feb. 6 – In 1993 Arthur Ashe Jr. died. He was a champion tennis player, civil rights activist and humanitarian.
Feb. 7 – In 1883 Ragtime pianist and composer Eubie Blake was born.
(Taken from a calendar advertising Chappell Funeral & Cremation Services in Garner.)
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We have mistakenly relied on receiving an email announcement of the programs and have probably missed more than this one.. We attend when we get those and paid our dues, but wonder what happened to the emails?