Blackmons enjoy trip to Highlands, N.C.

Steve and Eleanor Blackmon have returned from Highlands, N.C., where they attended an Elder Hostel at "The Mountain".

The subject of the event was the culture of Scott settlers in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. It was presented in three lectures: Appalachain culture through character portrayals by Pat Greenwald; The People's Songs and organization of the Labor Union Movement by Balladeer Lee Knight; and, Voices in the Plough by Flora Macdonald Gammon. All three were illustrated with songs and ballads.

The Blackmons joined ten of her classmates who graduated from Flora Macdonald College.

The College in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina was named for the Scots heroine, Flora Macdonald, who saved "Bonnie" Prince Charles during the Jacobites Revolution after 1746. She also became a heroine in North Carolina during the colony's War of Independence.

This event was especially exciting for Mrs. Blackmon, a Flora Macdonald alumna, because she is seventh cousin to the original Flora Macdonald.

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