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Mountaineer Days this weekend By Loretta Cozart Mountaineer Days Heritage Festival in downtown Kings Mountain is the place to be this weekend! This unique festival celebrates Kings Mountain’s heritage and all residents, and out of town guests are invited to spend the day! Highlights of the festival include a Heritage Village, live music, rides, contest, food, and a Homecoming Parade. Experience the Heritage Village at Patriots Park October 13th from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. to see “Ghosts of the Revolution” performances, blacksmith demonstrations, Revolutionary War reenactors, molasses making demonstrations, goat milking demonstrations, horse and buggy rides, a petting zoo, and more. Discovery Channel’s “Hillbilly Blood” co-host, Spencer 2 Dogs Bolejack will teach survival skills. Bolejack was an apprentice of Eustace Conway’s Turtle Island. After moving into the woods and living off the grid for about three years, he survived on little and accumulated many of the survival skills he now demonstrates and teaches. If you have ever thought about “living off the grid” here is an excellent opportunity to learn survival skills. Friendly, feisty neighbor-
PATRIOTS PARK 420 Railroad Ave., Kings Mountain,NC See Page 10A for full details of Friday & Saturday events hood competitions have been planned during the festival. First, second, and third Place Prizes will be awarded for the best homemade sweet potato recipe, pet Halloween costume, and “Best of the Best” beard, mustache, and goatee. That’s right, it’s time to get those beards and mustaches ready, because the city brings back some old-time fun to the Mountaineer Days Heritage Festival! Remembered most fondly from the Centennial Celebra-
tion of 1974, the Jail-A-Thon makes a triumphant return! You have the chance to jail some of Kings Mountain’s most notable and “notorious.” For the fee of $25, citizens will be able to throw selected members of the community into jail. After being scrutinized by the Magistrate and given an appropriate bond amount, they will have two hours to call and raise the money before being set free. All proceeds will go towards
The crowds enjoyed last year’s Mountaineer Days celebration. This year is expected to be an even bigger success. File photos by Gary Smart
See MOUNTAINEER, Page 6A
The Homecoming Parade starts at 3:30pm on Friday, October 12. Come line the streets to cheer on the Mounties! Inflatables and a DJ will be in Patriots Park from 2 pm to 5 pm. Everything is free for all to enjoy. Patriots Park closes at 5pm so everyone can to go to the homecoming game.
KMLT “Blythe Spirit” Fall Festival Woman’s Club carries on final performance Final performances of “Blithe Spirit” will be at 7:30 PM on Friday and Saturday, October 12-13 at Kings Mountain Little Theatre. Tickets at the door are $15 for adults and $10 for students and senior citizens. KMLT season members may reserve seats by calling the Joy box office at 704-7309408 or can email us at tickets@kmlt.org. Tickets are also available online by visiting www. kmlt.org The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from Noel Coward offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condo-
a tradition of service By Loretta Cozart
Blythe Spirit final perforamnat the Kings Mountain Little Theatre at 7:30 PM on Fridays and Saturdays, October 5, 6, 12, and 13 and a Sunday matinee at 3:00 PM on October 7. mine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called
up by a visiting “happy medium,” one Madame Arcati. As the (worldly and un-) See KMLT, Page 6A
Mountaineer Days road closures The City of Kings Mountain is looking forward to this year’s Mountaineer Day Heritage Festival located at Patriots Park. In order to prepare for the event, certain roads will
be closed or barricaded. On Friday, Oct 12, 2018 a Homecoming Parade will impact various roads along W. Mountain Street and S. Railroad Avenue. A portion of Railroad Avenue and West Gold Street surrounding Patriots Park will be closed beginning at midnight, Friday, October 12, 2018
and remain closed or barricaded until 8pm, Saturday, October 13, 2018. Please use extreme caution when traveling on Cansler street due to the increase in motor vehicles and pedestrians walking. Please plan to travel different roads if you are impacted by this change. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
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The Kings Mountain Woman’s Club has been a staple of our city since 1905 and has become the catalyst for many other groups to organize and succeed during the last century. We think of Fall Festival at this time of year, but many civic groups owe a debt of gratitude to the clubwomen who had the foresight to build a meeting place and encourage its use by others who needed a space to germinate, grow, and thrive. The Kings Mountain Woman’s Club formed just two years after the North Carolina Federation of Woman’s Clubs was organized and was initially known as the Civic League. It was created by a group of ladies who were concerned about the Kings Mountain Cemetery being in such disarray, so they formed a committee to rectify the situation. The cemetery Committee realized that other civic items needed attention and became a Civic League in 1905. In 1923, the Civic League joined the N.C. Federation of Women’s Clubs and became the Kings Mountain Woman’s Club. Starting with the Cemetery Committee, the group needed funds to accomplish their goals. For their very first fundraising project, the ladies decided to hold “A Flower Show.” Since that first Flower Show up to the one scheduled on October 17th, the Woman’s Club has sponsored a “Fall Show.” It is the longest running annual event of any Woman’s Club in the entire state of North Carolina. Today the Fall Festival is a one-day event that includes a horticulture exhibit, two home cooked meals, a bazaar, and arts and crafts exhibit. The first festivals were held in the Pythian Hall, Caveney’s Ice Cream, and or in
Clubwomen serving up dinner.
Members having fun while they work. a tent where the Chevrolet building used to be on Railroad Avenue and Mountain Street. The Fall Festival and the Neisler Foundation are still two primary sources of funding for club See FESTIVAL, Page 6A
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