A century of memories

100 years.

That’s the amount of time your hometown newspaper, The Wake Weekly, is attempting to squeeze into 10 issues over the next 10 months, covering a decade at a time, leading up to the town of Wake Forest’s Centennial Celebration.

It is a lot of time, and a lot of ground to cover. There’s no way we’ll be able to get it all in, no way to run every interesting photograph, every fascinating memory, every startling occurrence.

That’s where this blog comes in. Alongside our once-a-month section coverage of the last 100 years in Wake Forest, we’ll be posting extras on this online journal, where space is less of a premium. We also encourage you to respond with your own memories (provided they aren’t libelous or hateful) and will welcome old photos with descriptions of what they represent, and suggestions for coverage as well.

Some we may post to this blog, some we may decide to include in the print edition and some may not run at all. But we’d certainly like to hear from you. Post your thoughts here, or feel free to contact Wake Weekly managing editor Marty Coward at Marty@wakeweekly.com or by calling 556-3182, ext. 132.

The town’s Centennial Celebration events begin in December and run all year in 2009. The birthday bash itself is in February. We hope to see you there!

David Leone,
Wake Weekly staff writer