Saturday's Internet Edition, May 17, 2008.
Cooleemee 5th Graders Hear How Things Used To Be
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Peggy Hellard talks to Cooleemee Elementary fifth graders, telling them how things used to be in Cooleemee. - Photo by Mike Barnhardt
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Some 18 local residents, holding enlarged photographs of themselves or older relatives, sat under the trees in front of Legion Cemetery. Groups of students gathered around them as they told of how life used to be.
The event helped kick off the southeastern United States Textile Heritage Week, headquartered in Cooleemee and spreading to other cities in North and South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. Cooleemee’s Textile Heritage Center has contacts from 150 mill towns and villages.
James “Doll” Foster told the students listening to him about the old tradition of setting firecrackers off during the Christmas season.
“You could hear them all over town, bang, bang, bang,” Foster said. The tradition, he said, likely came from the country people who came to the town for jobs ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.