Public Education Partners/LMSAA: Flashback

flash·back
Pronunciation: 'flash-"bak
Function: noun
1 : a recession of flame to an unwanted position (as into a blowpipe)
2 a : interruption of chronological sequence (as in a film or literary work) by interjection of events of earlier occurrence; also : an instance of flashback b : a past incident recurring vividly in the mind

1952 Rock Log "Flashback"

Peggy Overstreet was the editor that year. Under her editorship, we won a ton of awards at the S. C. Scholastic Press Association convention...Gene Owens

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1962 Football
Denny Bennett #42, John Bush #25,
Martin Posey #13,Ray Boynton #14,
Richard Adams #27, Terry Bates #16,
Eddie Renew #18, Larry Taylor # 31,
Bobby Farnacci #26,Jim Knipher #44,
Jerry Clark #33, Joe Taylor #22,
Billy Seigler #10, Eddie Brantley #15,
Danny Taylor #23...from the 1962 Strata...
...names & source courtesy of Joe Taylor

WANTED!
GHS yearbooks
Wondering what to do with those GHS yearbooks lying around gathering dust? We would like to have one for each year, if possible. Excerpts will be shared on this site for all to enjoy.

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Bringing back the smell of lint and sweat

By Gene Owens

I wouldn't have known about the Textile Heritage Center in Cooleemee, N.C., had I not moseyed up to Spencer, N.C., last spring for the Rail Days observance at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.

Walter Turner, the transportation museum's historian, offered to take Miss Peggy and me on a short drive up U.S. Highway 601 from Salisbury to Cooleemee, a quiet little town where the Yadkin River stumbles across the Fall Line with enough force to drive a cotton mill.

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