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SPRING 2023 EXHIBTION | 1969: Reflection & Reimagination

We are thrilled to announce that the Wake Forest Historical Museum will host a selection of works from Wake Forest University’s Mark H. Reece Collection of Student-Acquired Contemporary Art. The exhibition will run through June 2022.

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Doug Buttram’s Legacy

March 6, 2019November 12, 2020 wakeforestmuseum 1 comment

(By Beverly Whisnant, retired SEBTS library) I was an interested observer in 1991 when Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Vice President Paul Fletcher asked my young friend […]

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  • Old Campus History
  • Wake Forest History

I’ll Find a Way or Make It

February 12, 2019November 12, 2020 wakeforestmuseum No comments

One thing about inspirational people is that they’re nearly always engaged in a quest. They’re searching for something big and the journey drives them forward. That’s […]

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  • Northeast Community
  • Oral Histories

White Father, Black History

February 5, 2019November 12, 2020 wakeforestmuseum 21 comments

When you discover a white Baptist is the father of an early civil rights activist… It all started when I stumbled across a book with the […]

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  • Old Campus History
  • Wake Forest History

Of Iron Boxes, Fire Bells, and Burning Buggies

January 11, 2019November 12, 2020 wakeforestmuseum No comments

The burning buggy was a mishap that struck a farmer driving his team along the road to Wake Forest from Franklinton in 1916. He was delivering […]

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  • Northeast Community
  • Wake Forest History

A Very Basketball Christmas

December 6, 2018November 11, 2020 wakeforestmuseum 2 comments

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 […]

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  • Old Campus History
  • Wake Forest History

Thanksgiving Day Tragedy: Professor W. A. Johnson

November 13, 2018January 11, 2019 wakeforestmuseum No comments

Occasionally a museum visitor will mention an adored grandfather (or great-grandfather) and ask which of the Old Campus buildings were here in the 1930s? It’s a […]

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  • Old Campus History

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