Brief Bits

A Smithsonian traveling exhibit, “Hometown Teams,” will be at the Wake Forest Historical Museum next spring from May 16 to June 30, the museum’s director, Ed Morris, has announced.

This is a tremendous coup for the museum, which opened in 2010, and is expected to draw a large number of visitors. To accommodate them, the museum will be open seven days a week for the run of the exhibit.

There will be a number of special events during the exhibit, but the plans for those are incomplete.

This year’s special exhibit will be locally produced, “Wake Forest in World War II,” in the lobby from June 22 through Oct. 5. Morris plans to show at least two films, “Patton” and “Twelve O’clock High” during that time, and the Wake Forest Historical Association will hold a program about the experiences of two local men, Willis H. Winston and Elrie Walton, during that war. There may be a third panelist, and the forum will be moderated by former N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice I. Beverly Lake Jr., a Wake Forest native.

Go to http://www.museumonmainstreet.org/hometownTeams to learn more.

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A logging company is clearing the 4-acre tract at the corner of Rogers Road and Heritage Branch Road that is owned by Andy and Jan Ammons.

A new business? No, Andy Ammons said this week. He is having it cleared for a fruit stand someone wants to put there.

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On the other side of town another logging operation is just a routine thinning of the pine trees on the 52-acre kudzu and pine tract on the south side of Jenkins Road that was once a cow pasture. It is owned by a Holding family trust and is listed as agricultural for tax purposes with a county approved forestry management plan, Emily Andrews explained this week.