A Very Basketball Christmas
Before multi-million dollar contracts, top basketball coaches were rewarded with… kitchen appliances? It was December 1952 and Wake Forest College Basketball Coach Murray Greason had just led the Demon Deacons … Continue reading
Against All Odds
“Win or lose, Wake brought out the best in people. Its athletes performed better than their best.” That quote from Cameron Yow’s new book on Wake Forest University Athletics sums … Continue reading
Celebrate Our History on Museum Day Live! 9/23/2017
We’re proud to join Smithsonian magazine’s thirteenth annual Museum Day Live!, in which participating museums across the United States emulate the spirit of the Smithsonian Institution by opening their doors … Continue reading
Oldest Student in Wake Forest History
While thumbing through the 1949 Howler, we noticed 75-year-old Eustace Norfleet, who had returned to Wake Forest College more than 50 years after he left. This original story written for a 1947 … Continue reading
Wake Forest: The Country of My Heart
The Wake Forest Historical Museum is proud to announce a new exhibit dedicated to life as experienced by students of Wake Forest College during the school’s final years on the … Continue reading
It’s July Fourth, 1970s Style!
There’s nothing like the Fourth of July… and no one’s done more to document its place in our local history than The Wake Weekly! The annual celebration got its start in … Continue reading
Trek to the Old Campus: April 25, 2015
This year’s Old Campus Trek, scheduled for Saturday April 25th, occurs at a time of unprecedented excitement for the Wake Forest Historical Museum. The museum will have just launched the … Continue reading
The 1949 Dixie Bowl
Some amazing artifacts that just arrived at the museum seem to have virtually time-traveled straight from a mid-century Dixie Bowl match-up between the Demon Deacons and the Baylor Bears! The … Continue reading
“The Has-Beens”
They’ve done so much for us, and now it’s time for the Wake Forest Historical Museum to formally thank that wonderful group of supporters known as “The Has-Beens.” Led by … Continue reading
Old Campus Trek
The Wake Forest Historical Museum hosted the Second Annual Old Campus Trek, presented by the Wake Forest University Office of Alumni Services, the Half-Century Club, the Wake Forest College Birthplace … Continue reading
The Wake Forest Spirit
Even during its first year on the Jones plantation when the students were living in the cabins of former enslaved workers and attending classes in the carriage house, qualities of … Continue reading
