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More issues of the Highlands High School student newspaper, The Mountain Trail, are now online, adding issues from 1947, 1976, 1979 and 1982. These additions help fill in gaps in our already online coverage from 1938 to 1982. Three of the issues are specifically the graduation issues of the paper and focus on the senior graduating class. The June 1, 1976 issue devoted a full page to each senior.
Songs that fit each graduating senior from the June 1976 issue
The lower grades had news in the paper too. This is from the September 1979 issue.
To learn more about our partner Highlands Historical Society, visit their partner page. You can read previous posts on the Mountain Trail here and visit our North Carolina Newspapers page to view more papers from across the state.
Thanks to a new contributing partner of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, Highlands Historical Society, the Galax News, a local newspaper published for the summer residents of Highlands, and yearbooks and a student newspaper from Highlands High School are now available on DigitalNC.
The Love Bug played at the Galax Theater in the summer of 1970
The Galax News was published weekly by the Galax Theater in downtown Highlands with news about what was going on in the town for the summer. Listings of what movies were showing were naturally a regular feature in the paper, as well as information about what events were going on at the local churches, festivals in town, who was renting their house out for the summer to who, who was arriving or leaving town, and even the guest list of the local hotels for the week. Advertisements for local businesses are also a key component. The issues available online date from 1952 through 1971.
The title cover of the April 10, 1942 issue of The Mountain Trail, published by Highlands High School
Materials from Highlands High School are now online as well. Yearbooks dating from 1941 to 1964 are available as are issues of the student newspaper, The Mountain Trail, dating from 1938 to 1974.
