Welcome to 88.5 WFDD's presentation of Story Corps Door-To-Door, a collaborative project with Old Salem. In this collection of audio essays, residents across the Piedmont share personal experiences from days past. These stories were originally told and recorded at Old Salem, last fall. Today, 87-year-old Margaret Vardell Sandresky concludes this group of Piedmont essays. She takes us 70 years back in time to an intimate Old Salem community, where families enjoyed band music in the courtyard after dinner, ladies wore white gloves in public and no one locked their doors. Her husband, 92-year-old Clemens, interviews her.
Margaret and Clemens live in Winston-Salem. Old Salem Museums and Gardens brought StoryCorps Door-To-Door to Winston-Salem last October. The Salem Baking Company sponsored this project.
Welcome to 88.5 WFDD's presentation of Story Corps Door-To-Door, a collaborative project with Old Salem. In this collection of audio essays, residents across the Piedmont share personal experiences from days past. These stories were originally told and recorded at Old Salem, last fall. Today, 67-year-old Leland Ferguson peers through the lenses of an anthropologist as he looks back to when he was a young man remembers becoming personally aware of racial attitudes in Winston-Salem. He is interviewed by friend John Larson. Leland Ferguson lives in Blythewood South Carolina.Old Salem Museums and Gardens brought StoryCorps Door-To-Door to Winston-Salem last October. The Salem Baking Company sponsored this project.
Welcome to 88.5 WFDD's presentation of Story Corps--Door-To-Door, a collaborative project with Old Salem. In this collection of audio essays--residents across the Piedmont share personal experiences from days past. These stories were originally told and recorded at Old Salem, last fall.Rising to the top of one's career can be a difficult journey. Today, 52-year old Ronda Plummer re-traces her very personal winding path that led her from the north ultimately to Winston-Salem and into professional and personal success. Her eldest son, 25-year-old Justin, interviews her. Ronda Plummer lives in Winston-Salem with her husband David and their sons two younger sons, Eric (15) and Ross (17).Old Salem Museums and Gardens brought Door-To-Door to Winston-Salem last October. The Salem Baking Company sponsored this project.
Welcome to 88.5 WFDD's presentation of Story Corps--Door-To-Door. A collaborative project with Old Salem.
In this collection of audio essays--residents across the Piedmont share personal experiences from days past.
These stories were originally told and recorded at Old Salem, last fall.
76-year old Evva Foltz Hanes and her husband, Travis, are the founders of the Mrs. Hanes Moravian Cookie Factory in Clemmons,
www.hanescookies.com.
Today--Evva bakes up a delicious story about a lucrative family tradition. Her husband, Travis, also 76, leads the interview. They live in Clemmons.
Old Salem Museums and Gardens brought Door-To-Door to Winston-Salem last October. The Salem Baking Company sponsored this project.
Welcome to 88.5 WFDD's presentation of Story Corps--Door-To-Door. A collaborative project with Old Salem.
In this collection of audio essays--residents across the Piedmont share personal experiences from days past.
These stories were originally told and recorded at Old Salem, last fall.
Today, the dynamic duo of Max Howard and diane Bray share their love for the stage and for a magical, legendary Blue Ridge pair.
Max Howard and Diane Bray are both 66 and live in Roswell Georgia.
Old Salem Museums and Gardens brought Door-To-Door to Winston-Salem last October. The Salem Baking Company sponsored this project.
Welcome to 88.5 WFDD's presentation of Story Corps--Door-To-Door. A collaborative project with Old Salem.
In this collection of audio essays--residents across the Piedmont share personal experiences from days past.
These stories were originally told and recorded at Old Salem, last fall.
In today's segment, 67YEAR OLD SARA SEARS, JR. says she and her husband Thomas, were destined to be together.
Thomas, who's also 67, is interviewing her.
Sara and Thomas Sears, Jr. live in Greensboro.
Old Salem Museums and Gardens brought Door-To-Door to Winston-Salem last October. The Salem Baking Company sponsored this project.
Welcome to 88.5 WFDD's presentation of Story Corps--Door-To-Door. A collaborative project with Old Salem.
In this collection of audio essays--residents across the Piedmont share personal experiences from days past.
These stories were originally told and recorded at Old Salem, last fall.
Today 80-Year-old Stanley South who recalls the first scientist he ever met...his best friend and sister...Victoria.
His friend Michael Hartley is interviewing him.
Stanley South now lives Columbia, South Carolina.
Old Salem Museums and Gardens brought Door-To-Door to Winston-Salem last October. The Salem Baking Company sponsored this project.
Welcome to 88.5 WFDD's presentation of Story Corps--Door-To-Door. A collaborative project with Old Salem.
In this collection of audio essays--residents across the Piedmont share personal experiences from days past.
These stories were originally told and recorded at Old Salem, last fall.
Today we hear from 66 year old Evelyn Terry as she recalls her grandfather--a strong man who made bricks in Winston-Salem and who gently molded her spirit.
Interviewing her is friend, Brenda Hill.
Evelyn Terry lives in Winston-Salem.
Old Salem Museums and Gardens brought Door-To-Door to Winston-Salem last October. The Salem Baking Company sponsored this project.
Welcome to 88.5 WFDD's presentation of Story Corps--Door-To-Door. A collaborative project with Old Salem.
In this collection of audio essays--residents across the Piedmont share personal experiences from days past.
These stories were originally told and recorded at Old Salem, last fall.
Today we hear from 81 year old Wilburn Ernst, Jr. He takes us back to when he was 13, growing up in Old Salem. One of his more colorful memories is surviving the perils of being a paperboy.
Interviewing him is his friend Paula Locklair.
Wilburn Ernst Jr. lives in Winston-Salem.
Old Salem Museums and Gardens brought Door-To-Door to Winston-Salem last October. The Salem Baking Company sponsored this project.
On the first installment of 88.5 WFDD'S Storycorps - Door to Door: 89-year-old Ruth Horton recalls the early years of her marriage to Miles and her sometimes adversarial with his very domineering mother, Ms. Theo.
Ruth Horton currently lives in Blacksburg, VA.
Storycorps - Door to Door is a collaborative project with Old Salem. You'll hear audio essays by residents across the Piedmont, each sharing personal experiences from days past. These stories were originally told and recorded at Old Salem in Fall 2007.
Old Salem Museums and Gardens brought Door-To-Door to Winston-Salem last October. The Salem Baking Company sponsored this project.
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