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Home » Archives: Memories-Recollections
Bottom Drawer. For your browsing pleasure, an archive of links to featured articles from years past.

Archives: Memories-Recollections

“A Little Hill To Climb”

W. T. Tate was born near Cliffside before the town existed. As a small boy he went to the Simmons school on Ferry Road. He worked in the mills at Henrietta and Cliffside. He was destined to become a preacher, and he did, after graduating from Wake Forest in 1916. Then he wrote this compelling memoir, “A Little Hill To Climb,” about the first three decades of his life. Another valuable find by Don Bailey.

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Turn My Face Toward Cliffside

The late Jennie Hawkins Metcalfe (daughter of Plato C. Hawkins) grew up in Cliffside and wrote her memories down on bits of paper wherever she found them: receipts, blank forms, paper bags, etc. You’ll find them fascinating.

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“I remember…”

The memories of Mabel Bridges Cargill, her biography and pictures of the Boyce Bridges family.

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Memories of Cliffside

Peggy Blanton Hadden

Peggy Blanton Hadden has written and shared with us a poignant essay on the good times and the good people in her old home town in the 1940s. She went away to college at mid-century, and has lived in far off Tennessee ever since. But she has never forgotten.

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Daisy Wilson Reminisces

Daisy, now in her 90’s, tells about her life in a small town—ours. Dr. Shull delivered her in 1916. Few of us can claim that!

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Looking Back

Betty Houser on graduation day in 1950

Betty Houser Cromer, at a reunion of her 1950 Cliffside High graduating class, reminds us of how things were in that mid-century year.

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The Town That Was

Frances Houser

Frances McMurray Houser has written a charming essay on the Cliffside in her growing-up years and the way-of-life she remembers.

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The Cliffside Clock Tower

Our town clock was installed in 1920, and for over half a century tolled the quarter hours from atop the R. R. Haynes Memorial Building. When the building was razed in the late 1970s this new tower for the old timepiece was erected on the site of Mr. Haynes' original Cliffside home. Although the property of the county, the Cliffside Historical Society has assumed responsibility for maintaining this beloved antique.

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