Nestled between the Blue Ridge mountains and the nearby cities of Charlotte and Raleigh is Winston-Salem, NC. A vibrant city with a rich history, it offers the arts, cultural experiences, historical reenactments, fine dining, community events, and sports, and MyWinston-Salem.com is there to bring it all to you.
Meet Our Team
We’re a small team but we bring lots of enthusiasm and passion to the content and resources we cover and provide for residents, visitors, and anyone interested in our favorite city and hometown, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Alex Schenker, Co-Founder
Alex has lived in Winston-Salem since 2004. He has seen the city grow up from a time when almost no one gathered downtown, to today’s thriving and bustling city with great selections of restaurants, events, concerts, and more. He’s proud to be part of the Arts and Innovation movement. When he’s not sipping a draft at Foothills brewery, chowing down on a tomato pie at Mozelle’s for lunch, or dancing to bluegrass at the Ramkat, you’ll catch him hitting balls at Miller Park, or hiking Pilot Mountain with his wife and two pups.
You can check out Alex’s articles here.
Michelle Schenker, Co-Founder
Born right here in Winston-Salem, NC, at Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center, Michelle is a native. At age one she moved to Virginia but after spending 30+ years moving around Virginia, Tennessee, Massachusetts, California and even Paris, France, Michelle returned home to Winston-Salem in 2004. A job at Hanes brought her but the heart of the city has kept her here. Her favorite things about Winston-Salem are its welcoming people who call it home, its art-centric culture, and its perfect location at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains and a short drive to the beaches of the Atlantic. The lack of traffic is a pretty tremendous asset as well, especially since it gives her more free time to enjoy making art and playing with her dogs, Lily and Barley. Michelle is one of the many residents of this great city who are thrilled to call this “My Winston-Salem”!
Michelle manages and takes care of most of our social media. You can check out Michelle’s articles here.
Kathy Solarino, Content Manager
Kathy is originally from New Jersey but now call Winston-Salem home. She is blessed with 3 sons, their wives, and five grandchildren. Her husband is deceased, but she gained his two sons, their wives, and four additional grandchildren. She fell in love with Winston-Salem because of the beautiful area, the arts, the music, and the people. It’s a city with a heart and soul.
Highlights from our site include restaurant and business reviews, city services, parks and recreation, travel tips, local news, local celebrity profiles, history, neighborhoods, and more.
Most of the content on the site has Kathy’s name on it. You can check out all of her articles here.
Sadie Cornelius, Creative & Design
Sadie is a former Winston Salemite whose client and agency side experience includes travel, college athletics, apparel, specialty foods and beverages, fine dining restaurants, publishing and entertainment. She’s a vegetarian (who eats bacon), NPR and PBS junkie, photog, occasional jogger/tennis player and amateur yogi who loves to travel, drink wine and cook. She’s a true Southern girl at heart having lived in Texas or North Carolina (home of her Tarheel husband) for the past 12years. A proud graduate of the University of Texas Communications School Sadie bleeds burnt orange and no matter when she goes, is a Longhorn for life.
Sadie helps out with a lot of the photos, imagery, and design elements of the site. You can find Sadie’s articles here.
Your Go-To Local Resource
MyWinston-Salem.com (or MyW-S.com) is the place to go for all your information about Winston-Salem. If you are looking for an Italian restaurant, we list all the best so you can look through and compare menus. Or maybe an Indian Restaurant, search for that. Museums, art galleries, and movie theaters, we have everything listed concisely with addresses, phone numbers, and hours of operation. City services like bulk pick up, we have the information. What parks are nearby, and what do they offer? Check with us. Summer Movies in the Park? We will make sure you don’t miss them.
Photo by Kathy Solarino for MyWinston-Salem.com, © Cover Story Media, Inc. 2023
Something You Can’t Find?
MyWinston-Salem.com should be at the top of your search list. And if there is something you look for that you can’t find, we want to know! You, our readers, are the best source of keeping us informed. If we are missing a subject we should have, we will work on that. We will add your favorite restaurant if we don’t have it listed. Contact us or let us know in the comments on any page. We love to hear from you.
What’s So Great About Winston-Salem?
What’s so great about Winston-Salem? That’s what you’ll find out by browsing around the various pages of this website and visiting our Facebook page. You’ll learn that Winston-Salem is a green city and boasts one of the top Farmer’s Markets in the country. The low cost of living and high job growth make it an optimal place to live during these trying economic times. Each neighborhood has its unique qualities.
In 2024, Winston-Salem was listed on The Top 100 Best Places To Live by Livability.com for the second year in a row. The list is based on the best small and mid-sized places to live “…where most Americans are busy creating dream careers, building families, launching businesses, and leading meaningful lives,” according to Amanda Ellis, Livability.com editor-in-chief.
Winston-Salem was North Carolina’s primary city in its heyday, with booming textile industries and tobacco fields stretching as far as the eye could see. However, the Arts (think RiverRun International Film Festival and the famous NC School of the Arts) and the biotech and healthcare industries have taken center stage recently. Providing excellent medical care, great potential job opportunities, and phenomenal cultural experiences. We have all the pluses of a big city with a small-city feel.
History
Of course, the history remains. A visit to Old Salem or Bethabara will take you back to a time of horse-drawn carriages, cobblestone streets, wood-oven bakeries, and more. Don’t miss out on the famous Moravian cookies – baked by Dewey’s – the world’s thinnest (and we like to think tastiest) cookie! Take historical tours, along with people in period clothing, and witness how things were done before our modern conveniences. Learn and take part in old traditions, some still practiced today.
Photo by Kathy Solarino for MyWinston-Salem.com, © Cover Story Media, Inc 2023
Sports
Winston-Salem also has its sports scene with the Minor League Baseball team The Dash, a farm team of the Chicago White Sox playing in our own Truist Stadium, and the internationally known ATP tennis tournament, The Winston-Salem Open, being hosted each summer. The public courts are meticulously kept and frequently resurfaced. We also have our very own Demon Deacons; Wake Forest University’s men’s basketball team represents WFU in NCAA college basketball and competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
North Carolina Is Home Too!
Winstonites, as we like to call ourselves, love not only Winston-Salem – but the surrounding countryside as well. From the Yadkin Valley Wine Country – a growing and increasingly respected wine region – to the NASCAR events – to hiking in the Appalachians, biking along the Blue Ridge Parkway, and skiing or snowboarding in the winter, there is always something for everyone here.
If You’re Just Visiting
If you are visiting from somewhere else, you’ll be blown away by our Southern hospitality. The people of Winston-Salem are some of the best you will find. We know you will come to love it here as much as we do. And MyWinston-Salem.com can be a big help for you during your visit. If you are considering a move to the area, check out our Winston-Salem neighborhoods article.