Turn My Face Toward Cliffside

The late Jennie Hawkins Metcalfe (daughter of Plato C. Hawkins) grew up in Cliffside and wrote her memories down on bits of paper wherever she found them: receipts, blank forms, paper bags, etc. You'll find them fascinating.

Daisy Wilson Reminisces

Daisy, now in her 90's, tells about her life in a small town—ours. Dr. Shull delivered her in 1916. Few of us can claim that!

"I remember..."

The memories of Mabel Bridges Cargill, her biography and pictures of the Boyce Bridges family.

 

Memories of Cliffside

Peggy Blanton Hadden has written and shared with us a poignant essay on the good times and the good people in her old home town in the 1940s. She went away to college at mid-century, and has lived in far off Tennessee ever since. But she has never forgotten.

Looking Back

Betty Houser Cromer, at a reunion of her 1950 Cliffside High graduating class, reminds us of how things were in that mid-century year.

 

The Town That Was

Frances McMurray Houser has written a charming essay on the Cliffside in her growing-up and the way-of-life she remembers. It's in the Memories, Original Articles section.