Daylight Savings Time begins Sunday, March 10. Time to spring ahead: Set all the clocks an hour earlier Saturday night or Sunday morning and prepare to “lose” an hour’s sleep. Why do we do this?
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The Wake Forest Historical Museum will host Water/Way, a traveling exhibit organized by the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution with support from the North Carolina Humanities Council. The exhibit will arrive in August of 2020.
The museum’s proposal, “Water, Falls of Neuse and the history of Wake Forest,” will highlight our community’s diverse and unique local stories as they relate to water.
This is the second Smithsonian traveling exhibit at the museum. Hometown Teams was in Wake Forest for six weeks in 2015.
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The Mangum Cemetery lies on the east side of North Taylor Street next to the Alston-Massenburg Center and north of East Walnut Street. It has to date back to the early 1900s or before.
The Wake Forest Public Works Department led by Director Magda Holloway is trying to gain legal title to the cemetery and bring it under town care. The public works department is responsible for the care of the Wake Forest Cemetery.
Holloway wrote recently that they are going through the statutory process required by the state to assume title to and begin maintenance of an abandoned cemetery.
“The process includes trying to find the owners of Mangum cemetery by reaching out to the public, sending out letters, holding meetings, and advertising in the local paper on 5 different occasions. To date, no one has come forward. We are under way of acquiring the property so we can maintain the Mangum Cemetery as part of the town cemetery.” Wake County says the 2.5 acres belong to the heirs of William Mangum.
Holloway said that once the town has the title it will build a plan to maintain the cemetery as part of the larger Wake Forest Cemetery which stretches from North White Street to North Allen Road across from the center and the Mangum Cemetery.
Is there anyone who knows something about this cemetery, the people buried there, William Mangum or his heirs? Please tell either Holloway or the editor.
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The 2019 Old Campus Trek when students from Wake Forest University along with alumni and friends of the university gather in the town of Wake Forest will be held on Saturday, April 6. There will be coffee and a social time at 10 a.m. at the Wake Forest Historical Museum on North White Street followed by two programs. There will be guided tours of the old campus and a picnic lunch with an afternoon multigenerational discussion about the Wake Forest Legacy.
“The Trek is geared toward what is called ‘Half Century’ alumni which now goes up to 1969 grads and current students,” Ed Morris, the executive director of the Wake Forest Museum, said. “Any WFU student can sign up to ride a bus down for the day or come on their own. It is free. We just need to know how many plan to come so we can provide food. Over the past few years we have averaged about 50 to 60 current students and about 200 alumni.”
Advance registration is required. Call the Alumni Office at 1-336-758-4278. You can also call Morris at 919-556-2911.
