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From out of the past comes two “new” films. First, from 1940, there’s an H. Lee Waters sequence of kids and their keepers at Tri-High and the elementary schools in Henrietta, Caroleen and Avondale. You’ll notice right off all the girls wore dresses (no slacks or shorts to be seen).

The second film, from 1948, is titled “This Is Progressive Rutherford County.” It’s professionally done, and provides a glimpse of how we lived in those simpler times.

More recently, on Nov. 14, 2011, Ben Humphries, Cliffside’s humorist-in-chief, regaled the Gathering for an hour with just some of the stories he’s tucked away in his prodigious memory.

Faded Clippings

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We’ve amassed a collection of  265 obituaries from the years 1903 to 2017, from various newspapers and clippings contributed by individuals. You can select names from an index, or browse through nine pages of images.  

Tacky Party 1955

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Four ladies in ridiculous garb.

The ladies of Cliffside would, from time to time, allow their imaginations to run amok and give birth to ideas like this one: to stage an event at which each of their bodies is adorned in unexpectedly gauche, Nike Pas Cher Homme,let alone unfashionable, ensembles and accessories. In a word, Tacky. Bottom of the trunk stuff, if you will.

Your Honor, there is evidence of such goings-on. Nike Pas Cher,We offer as Exhibit-12 these photos under Galleries->Events.

Big Completion

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Medallion with text "Cliffside in 1930."Did you have a relative living in Cliffside in 1930? Well, he or she can likely be found in our 1930 Federal Census for the Cliffside area. In addition, you can read about all the goings on in our our town in that long-ago year. It and much else is in the very large section called Cliffside in 1930. How many and whose homes had a radio? Who were the veterans were there? Which war? Who was the youngest person working in the mill? The oldest?

 

And we’ve brought back Don Bailey’s survey of the Haynes Grove Cemetery, which is located in a clearing on the wooded hill just beyond the Cliffside School ballground. He has diagramed and numbered all the grave sites and identified most of the deceased buried there.