Outdoor Meet and Greet with Mary Tribble | Pious Ambitions

4209-100 Lassiter Mill Road,Raleigh NC 27609

21 November, 2021

Description

Sally Merriam Wait's Mission South, 1813–1831 A chronicle of the wife of Wake Forest University founder Samuel Wait. In 1812 at the age of nineteen, Sally Merriam Wait experienced her conversion. For those raised in an evangelical church during the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, conversion represented a key moment in a young person’s life, marking the transition from childhood and frivolity to the duties of a pious life. Sally’s conversion also marked the beginning of her journal. Pious Ambitions establishes Sally Merriam Wait as a significant figure in North Carolina and Baptist history. Her ambition led her from young convert to devoted wife of Reverend Samuel Wait, the first president and founder of Wake Forest University. Her journal was passed down carefully from generation to generation until it found its way in 1993 to the Special Collections and Archives at Wake Forest University. In examining this trove and reconstructing the life of Wait, Mary Tribble provides a rare glimpse into the spiritual education of a young woman who nevertheless successfully navigated the rise of capitalism in the market economy of the early nineteenth century. Mary Tribble, graduated from Wake Forest University and is employed there as Senior Advisor for Engagement Strategies. ________________________________________ Please note all in-person events are subject to change. Quail Ridge Books is currently following the health and safety guidelines recommended by the CDC and state of North Carolina. Quail Ridge Books is an award-winning, independent bookstore serving Raleigh, North Carolina for 34 years. We love connecting readers with some of their favorite authors.