Mercer County High School - Highlander Yearbook (Harrodsburg, KY)

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Moments The first snow of the season caught our school at its loveliest, but the snow disappeared from the school grounds before Christmas morning. Realizing that Christmas is a time for sharing, the Library Club visited a rest home, taking fruit and small gifts. During the visit, a Christmas program was pre- sented . The clock in the library was transformed into a plump-faced little man called Santa Claus by his faithful followers.

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Yuletide The Yule season calls for decoration. During December, students and teachers diligently carried out the Christmas theme. Displays included a tree made from Christmas cards. As an entry for the annual door decorating contest, Mrs. Hatcher's homeroom created the first-place display--a huge, smiling Santa. All were busy as the classes prepared floats for the Harrods- burg Christmas parade, in which the sophomores and seniors won third place. Most certainly, the boys' rest room choir reflected the spirit of the season.

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A Moment's Glance We of Mercer County have inherited a vast cultural and historical background. Here can be found the remains of ancient Indian villages, the cave where Daniel Boone spent one winter, the Old Mud Meeting House built by mem- bers of the Dutch Reformed Church, Salt River, Chaplin River, and Dix River which was named Dick’s River by the Long hunters for an old Indian called Captain Dick. All are important places in our early days. Harrodsburg, our county seat, is the oldest permanent settlement in Kentucky. Harrod's Fort was settled by Captain James Harrod, June 16, 1774. Though forced by Indian raids to leave, Harrod and his men returned the next spring, their women and children following in the fall. into Our History Here George Rogers Clark lived while planning his attacks on the British forts in the Old Northwest. Here Ben Logan brought his family one bad winter. Here the first white child was born in Kentucky, and here later Rachel Jackson, “The President's Lady, lived with her first husband, Louis Robards. Here the first court was held in Kentucky as well as the first school. The children used smooth boards for paper and the juice of ox galls for ink. Their only books were Bibles and hymnals. To the north, the adventuresome McAfee brothers settled McAfee Station and laid out the town of Salvis a. The age of the buffalo, the bear, and the Indian is past. However, the hardy spirit of the Long Hunters who roamed our land and the pioneers who settled it still sur- vives in their descendants in Mercer today.