A flurry of excitement hit town in the late 1930s when a Hollywood actress passed through on U.S. 1… and picked up a Wake Forest College boy! Dolores Del Rio […]
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Farm Life: Wake Forest in 1939
Nearly 80-years ago, a New Deal photographer traveled to Wake Forest to snap these indelible images of Depression Era farm life on a property just past the outskirts of town. The […]
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Wake Forest’s Saddest Ghost Story
If ghosts are real, then Wake Forest’s most tragic might be 16-year-old Octavia Seawell. Octavia lived in the big white house known as Oakforest Plantation just […]
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Old Campus Pranks, ca. 1935
In this 1-minute video, 101-year-old Willard Brown (WFC ’36) recalls a college prank that led to a stern, campus-wide reprimand from the Wake Forest College professors, […]
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A Russian in Wake Forest
In the 1930s, a Wake Forest College student from Russia studied to become a minister before his life was cut tragically short. In a 1-minute video, Willard Brown (WFC […]
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Wake Forest in 1939
In 1939, itinerant filmmaker H. Lee Waters arrived in Wake Forest to shoot film of local residents, edit the footage into a feature length movie, and […]
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