You can now learn lots of intimate details about the lives of those in the Boiling Springs area in the early 1980s in The Foothills View, a community newspaper digitized by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, courtesy of our partner Gardner Webb University.  Issues from the 1981 to 1984 are now online.  The paper, which was published weekly, included national and local news sections, as well as detailed community comings and goings for each of the local communities around Boiling Springs, such as Lavonia, Trinity, and Mt. Pleasant.

A tongue in cheek look at some of the letters to the editor The Foothills View got in their mailbag.

News about Earl Scruggs, a Boiling Springs native, visiting home in 1984

News out of Mt. Pleasant on March 19, 1981

To view more materials from our partner, Gardner Webb University, visit their partner page here.  And to view more newspapers from across North Carolina, visit our North Carolina Newspapers Collection.