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BOONS, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2S, 1954. SECOND SECTION
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High School Students Take
Trip Over Daniel Boone Trail
(Note: Classes at Appalachian
High School often supplement their
book studying with field trips to
points of interest, mnay times to
the exact, places they are studying
about, or to see the things they
are studying. The story below was
written from notes taken on one
of these trips by a class taught by
Miss Melicent Huneycutt.)
Into the crisp sunshine of an
October afternoon erupted thirty
teen-age youngsters, agog -with the
excitement of the trip ahead. From
the grey stone building of Appala
chian High School toward the shin
ing new blue .and grey activities
bus, Freddie Reese and Ronder
Main gave their favorite imitations
of jet-propelled motion. Ladylike
Frankie Teague and Betty McNeill
walked more sedately behind.
"I'll bet we're the first people
around here to follow the Boone
Trail all the way across Watauga
County," bragged Bobby Norris,
an alert, blue-eyed youngster from
Boone.
"Where are we going first. Miss
Huneycutt?" urged fed-haired Lar
ry Winebarger, scrambling for a
seat beside petite Peggy Jones.
Before the teacher could answer,
Jody Shackford, the two-headed
trip captain, spoke. "Boone enter*
ed the county at Cook's Gap. The
first marker put up by the D. A.
R. is supposed to be at the head
of the gap."
"But we're stopping first at the
old muster-field," put in Loreen
Greene, adjusting a cocky denim
cap atop her brief bob.
"Muster-field? Wha.t's that?"
The Hollingsworth twins. Patsy
and Nancy, were volubly puzzled.
"It's where the county militia
used to drill," explained Billy Joe
Williams as the bus drew to a
stop.
This trek in the footsteps of
Daniel Boone was one of several
to grow out of a study undertaken
by the members of an English-So
cial Studies course taught by Miss
Melicent Huneycutt. Appalachian
High School, the laboratory school
for Appalachian State Teachers
College, is located in Boone, North
Carolina, in the heart of Watauga
County and in the frontier country
of pre-Rcvolutionary days. The
classes had decided to build their
study for some weeks around their
own communities ? history, geogra
phy, industry, culture, and dozens
of other phases of local life. Al
ready the class had undertaken
trips to such places of varied in
terest as the large root-and-herb
warehouse of Wilcox Drug Com
pany, the county hospital, the col
lege campus, the Negro school, and
the nearby resort town of Blowing
Rock.
But this trip along the Boona
Trail was the most extensive and
exciting of all. Standing by the
mutilated marker at Cooke's Gap,
seeing the county from the point
where Daniel Boone must first
have surveyed its rolling, forest
covered hills, a new sort of awe
was in the aye* even of such na
tive-born, life-long residents of this
very neighborhood as Mary . Ellen
Harrison and Jeannette Hollars.
From Cook's Gap the trail led to
the site of the first church in the
county, the old Three-Forks Bap
tist Church. Here the marker was
well-preserved, and the class eag
erly read: '
DANIEL BOONE TRAIL
FROM NORTH CAROLINA TO
KENTUCKY
176#
MARKED BY
NORTH CAROLINA DAUGHTERS
OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION.
After an incidental cave-explor
ation led by Grant Greer, the ex
pedition passed the most familiar
of the trail-markers: that on the
lawn of the county courthouse in
Boone: The taller, more impressive
monument on the Appalachian
State Teachers College campus
was new to several. It marked the
exact spot of the old Daniel Boone
cabin, the chimney of which had
stood until early in this century.
The trail seemed to grow pro
gressively harder to find north of
Boone. Research had turned up
? rofarnn/>a ?/? a marlrar at UnXnnc
? iv*c> vuvv w ? mib> nci ?av
G?p, but no one in the community
hid heard of it. Exploration prov
ed fruitiest, and the rather crest
fallen young Boones passed on to
look for a Straddle Gap and the
marker which should be there.
This time Lady Luck had a double
blessing in store for them. Mr. Li
onel Watson, driver of the bus, in
inquiring for Straddle Gap was
given bonus information: the miss
ing marker was not at Hodgea Gap,
but at Hodgetown.
The hike to Straddle Gap called
for the endurance of a Boone ?
more than a mile almost straight
UB the mountain. Gary Hartley,
Grant Greer, and photographer
Richard Hunt firat found the mark
er, and their yeH of victory gave
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new heart to the stragglers It
wu nearing sunset, and the view
down the gap to majestic Grand
father Mountain was breathtaking.
Boone, said tradition, following
an old buffalo trail, had crossed
by Silverstone to Tennessee, leav
ing Watauga County and this state
at Zionville. It was dusk when the
search for the Zionville marker
began. Finally keeneyed Frankie
Hamilton and Claude Miller shout
ed the discovery, and there stood
the marked in the midst of a fence
corner thicket. The trip was com
plete.
Tired but triumphant, the young
sters unloaded back at the high
school. The exciting past of their
county had come to life for them
this day.
As each paid his fifty-cent fee
toward trip expenses, one fellow
grinningly planted an extra quar
ter in the teacher's hand.
"It was worth a lot more than
fifty cents to me," he said.
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the crop is plowed under accord
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He explained that for minerals
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Cove Creek School
Tne Junior class ot Cove Cre?K
High School is sponsoring ? Hal
loween Carnlfcl Friday, October
29 at 7:00 p. m. in the high school
building.
Come in costume. There will be
prizes given for the best costume.
There will contest and fun for all.
The final decision will me made*
for queen and king.
Refreshments consisting of hot
dogs, doughnuts, drinks and coffee
will be for sale.
We hope you will come and
bring your friends with you. We
are sure you will enjoy every mom
ent. The proceeds will go for the
Junior-Senior banquet.
Open House
Open House will be held Nov
ember 10 during American Educa
tion Week. Mrs. Mast is planning
a special program for chapel which
will be held at 11 o'clock. The
Cove Creek Chapter of the Nation
al Honor Society will be in charge
of the program. Parents and
friends of the school are invited to
visit the school all day and attend
the classes if they wish.
Tea will be served after school
in the teachers lounge by the home
economics girls.
National Honor Society
"Hie Cove Creek Chapter of the
National Honor Society will hold
it's induction service on Wednes
day morning, November 10, at 11
o'clock. Parents and friends of the
school are ipvited to attend.
Present members ? who were
chosen from the junior class last
year include: Ann Wilson, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Argus Wilson
of Trade, Tennessee; Joaan Tho
mas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don
Thomas, of Trade, Tennessee;
Johnny Fletcher, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Fletcher, Zionville; and
June Knipl, granddaughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Martin Herman, Vilas.
New members are selected by
?he faculty from the members of
the junior and senior classes who
are outstanding, in character, ser
vice, leadership, and scholarship.
From the number in the junior
and senior classes qualifying in
these traits only 15% of the total
number of seniors and 10% of the
junior class may be chosen as
members of the National Honor
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President, Carolyn Lookalilll;
vice-president, Louise Henson; sec
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committee, Mary Hodges, Larry
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called the meeting to order. We
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Ann Campboll leading.
The meeting was then turned
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us about "Ironing the Easy Way."
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