With the help of our partners at Blowing Rock Historical Society we are excited to announce that the 1965 volume of Blowing Rock High School’s yearbook, The Breezes, is now available on DigitalNC. This new addition joins DigitalNC’s pre-existing collection of the The Breezes, which goes back to 1949. Most significantly, The Breezes [1965] represents the memories, goodbyes, and reflections from Blowing Rock High School’s last graduating class.

Although sea motifs are common across yearbooks from North Carolina’s coast, seeing images of ships and anchors is far more unexpected when opening a yearbook from a mountain town. The final students of Blowing Rock High School, however, brought the beach to mountains to pay homage to the beloved school that provided them a safe harbor as they prepared to embark on their own voyages across the seas of learning and life. Scattered amongst the illustrations of anchors and ships in The Breezes [1965] are sentiments on new beginnings, old friends, and bittersweet goodbyes.

More information about our partner, Blowing Rock Historical Society, can be found on their website here. 

More materials, including more yearbook titles, ledgers, voting lists, and two newspaper titles, can be found on Blowing Rock Historical Society’s contributor page, which is linked here.