Mrs. Carrie Fries Shaffner was an active voice in the community during the war years.. Her family is well known in the community. She is a woman of many talents, and is a woman of strength, of dignity and of resilience. In addition to teachign at teh Salem Girls School, Carrie was an outspoken supporter of the troops and of Salem's duty to suppor the war effort. Her late father, Francis L. Fries was a leading businessman in town, and Carrie seems to have inherited his spirit. For all of these reasons, we asked her to sit with Eliza Kremer and discuss a range of topics that center around the future of Salem and Forsyth County.
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Eliza: Freedom is a difficult topic. How do you define it for our towns?
Carrie: Freedom isn’t something that is concrete; it’s not something that’s the same for everyone. For some in Salem, freedom is something they have known their entire lives, while others are just experiencing it for the first time. For some, very little has changed except the mindset.