Annual Meeting: Using Detective Work to Connect Past to Present

Name: Annual Meeting: Using Detective Work to Connect Past to Present
Start: 2025-06-02T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-02T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Mordecai Historic Park Classroom in the Visitors Center

Schedule

Mon Jun 02 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Mordecai Historic Park Classroom in the Visitors Center | Raleigh, NC

Connecting Raleigh residents to the words and lives of formerly enslaved relatives interviewed by the WPA in the 1930s
About this Event

Join the Wake County Historical Society for our Annual Business Meeting and Program on Monday, 2 June 2025 at 7.00 PM, in the classroom at the Mordecai Park Visitors Center, 1101 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh. After a brief business meeting including a summation of our programs and activities for the 2024-2025 year, we will have a dessert reception and then our featured program.

We are very excited to present a program by Ashley Talley, Enterprise Executive Producer at WRAL TV. Ashley will be presenting on the WPA Slave Narrative program from the 1930s and how she and a team of journalists at WRAL used Ancestry.com, public records, and modern people-finding tools to connect with descendants in Wake County and brought them stories and information about their ancestors, some of which had not been shared before.