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onb 1\/T aifik dierl troi of my I e? ; sei LUStJ pro^ wl 'age ckol ■ee-l ) [illJ C(j ;r. Dc [eii lVI ue\ or skj mfl rej e re; s e,| n| rl u\ taught For the month of Ma yyy -Art Deoartment is sho^'^'^'^ TLeC ascades Unique among places of interest on the Mars Hill College campus, though little is actually known about it by the present generation at the college, is the Cascades, which exists as a highly interesting place to one who knows of its past. Appearing today to the passer-by or casual ob server as a small water-shoot, which pours into an undersized pond, and, joined by another small creek, makes its way out of sight through a rocky creek bed, the Cascades in no way indicates its eventful past. At this place once stood a grist mill, a stone from which can be found today in the college auad- rangle in front of the music build ing supporting the flag pole which rises through it. In the search for a more nlenteous supply of water for the mill in op eration at the Cascades manv years ago, Gabriel’s Creek, which now flows under High School Road and beside the athletic fields of the col lege w^s dammed up. Soon this creeek diminished in size, and it was discovered that the water supplv was insufficient. An undertaking, recognized today as an engineering feat, was proposed — that of an aqueduct to divert the water from Banjo Branch, another small nearby stream, into the original stream above the undershot mill wheel, thus supplementing the water already in use from Gabriel’s Creek. This proiect was begun, computed, and used: and today there still r'^m'^itis the flat and gently sloning b°d of the aqueduct as it runs from the old Carter home east of the athletic field to the north hillside over looking the Cascades. The water which backed up from the dam created a lake covering the area now drained, graded, and used as the lower athletic field of the college. In 1934 the present-day baseball field was graded, but only recently, in 1953, was the lower part of the work completed. Tradition held for manv years that before the days of the Cascade’s lake and the grist mill this lower part of what is now the athletic field was used by the Indians as a camping ground. This legend was Tom Fryer Moon M agtc Illumined orb Floating in the infinite ring Of timeless space. Casting enchanted shadows upon an earth drenched with tears Raining from the hand of Venus Nectar upon young lovers, Magic beams of Entrancing grandeur Transform The sensual world Into blissful reverie of joy And gladness of being. -Lamar Robinson HILLTOP—PAGE EIGHT You bring um, I am your Church. Pe( to visit me on Sundays ^inl substantiated when, as excavation was begun, great quantities of In dian arrowheads were found litter ing parts of the area. In the earlier days of the college the Cascades became a favorite trysting place of young lovers who would group there on Sunday after noons and chip their names into the rock beside the stream, engaging in, one would suppose, those pleasures enjoyed by only the young who are in love. Mars Hill Baptist Church also made use of the Cascades as the place where its baptisms were held before the days of sanctuary pools, but the stream became contaminat ed and this practice had to be dis continued. In 1954 a $70,000 plant was con structed at the Cascades for the pur pose of sewage disposal from the college, and this installation serious ly marred the beauty of the place although the surrounding area has since been landscaped and beauti fied. Remaining in spite of this, however, as a favorite spot for out ings by groups from the church and college, the Cascades seems to be re living today at least a part of its eventful past. day nights, and through dress in me I am composed of stoniii summer. ment. My interior and eXie little w beautiful, but this is only d on a bad cal appearance. In reality budlike mat( up of a group of people that tne bi^ bound together by a comt Lossum 1 and faith in Jesus Christ, ag Zora Be' T , r wanted tc 1 present a plan or sta , . , , . 'ly trom that which to live. As an challenge men, women, to live on a higher platf y;®, ■ When they beconae a pa„ed as thou their ideals, morals, and i,i ,„as day er chores w I help to train young Ih lom, her ; way they should go. I strivE*^’^® do tt and direct their footstens'^^^ I trv to offer them at all very finest and best that offer. I stand as a beacofl^^^ wasn t beckon men from darkness®^^*^^.!- from despair to hope. ^ tora Belle w Through my doors Jng up the learned, unlearned, poor, e door, her people from all classes o( fresh watt They come to me seekialt Zora Bel] and peace from the pressfer fek the dens of life. They wait i^he was yoi reverence, and expectatiothat dress, I mv doors. Manv of them ft Brooks g they have faithfully and ‘ sought, bur others leave juStie days pass came. nore and n r, , r ■ 1 . . 1 ^ for the me People find inside tf, p the l^mg Lord of mankii. reel His presence, real • ■ in their souls. They find^^^ ^ p, Place to*- their talents, don, snd mon«. Workin(,,„ mv walls, they find a chal)tjolla„ mo; brings our their best selvc^ my pulpit the word of vealed and made clear. A choir loft reverent voi^d her Pa praises to God. Within Htg^g 04 tl thev find the answ-^r to the* pp problems of everyday livin2.j^j. ® :h. 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