February 28, 2010
Grady Bowden, the long-time agriculture teacher at Summerfield High School, was better known as “Pop” Bowden.
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September 6, 2009
Years ago, we always had a cow, and “Bossy” is the only name I remember the cows being called. Daddy and the boys always did the milking. Mama and Lucille, my oldest sister, could milk, but I guess it was considered a man’s job. Most of...
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July 12, 2009
Although Summerfield was just a small community in 1917 during World War I, the people worked together for the American Red Cross. The Greensboro chapter of the Red Cross was organized April 11, 1917, with 14 charter members. Five months later, the Summer...
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April 12, 2009
Back in the 1940s and ’50s, there were no plastic Easter eggs. Most people in Summerfield just went to the chicken house to get eggs to dye. You hoped there wouldn’t be any hens in the nests to peck your hands when you reached for the eggs. Th...
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February 22, 2009
They got married where? When Ruby Morton and Robert Williams got married in 1937 at the Carolina Theatre in Greensboro, it must have been big news in the Summerfield area. My oldest sister, Lucille Angel Pope, included in her diary, "Iver (Angel), Lib......
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December 21, 2008
During his senior year at Oak Ridge Institute, T.E. Whitaker was asked to teach at Ridgefield School in 1885. He needed the extra money and the school term only lasted three months -- four weeks before Christmas and eight weeks after Christmas. For a youn...
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November 2, 2008
The Summerfield gym is a real gem. Completed by Sept. 29, 1939, it was originally called the Summerfield recreation park. Plans included a lake, bathhouses and a community clubhouse. This was a Works Progress Administration project in Guilford County; ano...
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October 12, 2008
Several things about Case's Store are uncertain, such as when the store was built and when T. E. "Ed" Case started operating the store. Herbert Scarlette remembered hearing the store was formerly a livery stable and when it was made into a store, a floor...
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August 10, 2008
Florence Shelton was born in Patrick County, Va., in 1875. She married Andrew Jackson Ayers and they moved to Summerfield about 1916. Their family grew to include 10 children, six boys and four girls. Some of the children had unusual nicknames: "Goat......
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July 13, 2008
Our national symbol is the bald eagle and around July 4th we usually think more about the flag and other patriotic symbols. Buddy Isley does more than just think about them. He didn't set out to carve an eagle like the national symbol. His interpretation...
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June 29, 2008
Years ago, before Great Clips, Leon's and so many other beauty salons came on the scene, people had shops in their homes. One of the earliest home beauty shops in Summerfield was opened by Helen Ayers in 1936. It was upstairs in the Ayers' brick home, nea...
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Years ago, before Great Clips, Leon's and so many other beauty salons came on the scene, people had shops in their homes. One of the earliest home beauty shops in Summerfield was opened by Helen Ayers in 1936. It was upstairs in the Ayers' brick home, nea...
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June 1, 2008
Stokesdale has Countryside Manor, a nursing home that was opened in 1977 by Dr. Mervin and Virginia King and Sonny and Phyllis Harris. Although Summerfield never had a nursing home, we did have at least three rest homes. The first was Hood's Rest Home, op...
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April 6, 2008
William E. Shields, better known as Bill or Billy, was born in Summerfield in 1919. His father died when he was less than a year old, leaving his mother with a small boy to bring up alone.
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March 9, 2008
Stafford Brothers Store was opened May 1922 and owned and operated by Buck and Lee Stafford. It was located next to the mill on Summerfield Road. In November 1926, robbers were caught red-handed inside the store. Frank West and Jack Hardin, who said they...
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January 27, 2008
The Grange, organized Feb. 19, 1930, wasn't the first club or civic organization in Summerfield, but it has survived longer than any of the others. The Grange was first started in the 1870s as a national organization to improve the lives of farmers and th...
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December 23, 2007
As most everything else, church Christmas programs have changed over time. Years ago, said Margaret Metz, when most people in Summerfield didn't have Christmas trees at home, the Methodist and Baptist churches had trees decorated with real candles. The ca...
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November 4, 2007
Was Joseph Hoskins the first Guilford County sheriff from the Summerfield area? It's possible that some of the earlier sheriffs were from this area. One possibility was William Moore, who was sheriff in 1771. Was he the Col. William Moore who was fined 50...
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September 19, 2007
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without." We didn't hear those words quoted when we were growing up, but our parents, and most everybody in Summerfield, lived by that philosophy. We'd never heard of recycling but we did plenty of it. O...
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