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The North Carolina Collection of the Forsyth County Public Library houses a broad range of non-circulating resources to suit your research needs. The room contains a wealth of local, state and federal information as well as archived issues of newspapers and magazines. Our knowledgeable staff will be happy to assist you with your project, whether you are an experienced researcher or just getting started. For help with questions about North Carolina, local history, or genealogy, please come visit us on the second floor of the Central Library in Winston-Salem, NC or call 336-703-3070 during regular business hours. |
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Old Southern Apples by Creighton Lee CalhounOld Southern Apples is a delightful review of the history and uses of apples in the South. For three hundred years southern farm families grew apples as an important, year-round food source. Through the selection and grafting of wild seedlings, Southerners developed unique apple varieties adapted to the climate and soils of the South and suited to specific uses such as drying, cider, apple butter and winter keeping. |
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The Foxfire book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South by Kami AhrensPulled from the vast Foxfire archive are 21 oral histories from southern Appalachian women whose remarkable narratives illuminate a diverse regional culture held together by the threads that are woven between women and place, and through generations. These stories, told sometimes with humor, sometimes with sadness, but always with a gripping rawness and honesty, recount women's lived experiences from 1967 to the present, from Georgia and Alabama into Tennessee and the Carolinas. |
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Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer James Mooney interviewed him extensively about Cherokee lifeways. The true story of Wil Usdi’s life forms the basis for this historical novella, the final published work of fiction by the late award-winning Cherokee author Robert J. Conley. |
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Mayflower Families Silver Books Complete Set
The North Carolina Collection is pleased to announce we now have a complete set of the Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Sometimes called the Silver Books, this set traced descendants of pilgrims from the Mayflower through five generations. Now, with the newest volumes that has increased to eight generations! We would like to acknowledge and thank The Piedmont Colony of the Mayflower Descendants of the State of North Carolina. They donated some of the volumes for this set as well as the newest additions to the collection. Thank you to the Piedmont Colony and Piedmont Colony Governor Bill Ewalt for their donation. It is much appreciated.
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Ready to unlock your family's history? NC Collection Special Collections Librarian Grace May will guide you through essential research techniques and demonstrate how to use Ancestry.com and other valuable library databases. Whether you're starting your family history journey or need a refresher, this program will help you discover your roots. Free and open to all adults; please register here. |
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Digging up the history of ancestors may reveal information that some would prefer to stay buried, but genealogists have ways to tackle sensitive information when they find it. Learn how to avoid hurt feelings and family tension when you find “skeletons” in your family closet. Space is limited. Check out our calendar for more information. |
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Forsyth County Public Library
660 W. Fifth St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101
336-703-2665forsythlibrary.org |
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