1930-1954
Longtime residents can recall today the Depression-era hardships, wartime rationing, civil-defense blackouts and other roller-coaster experiences of a time when the world nearly blew itself apart. It was the same story here as elsewhere in the United States.
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Picture of farmers helping a neighbor
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'He snorted like a bull and threw his head back when he ran. You'd see him pointing out blocks going down the field. The boy could fly.'
-- Howard Cheshire, recalling the running style of his teammate William E. 'Nub' Smith (pictured), who led Fayetteville High School to the first of its back-to-back state football championships in 1947
'The winds blew, power lines broke, and trees crashed about us, but nobody was hurt. The students -- seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders -- came through with flying colors.'
-- Bert Ishee, recalling the destruction caused by Hurricane Hazel in October 1954, when Ishee was the principal of Alexander Graham Junior High School
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'We rocked Fayetteville for one solid week.'
-- Pinkie Jackson, who served as a committee chairman for the production of a historical drama to commemorate Cumberland County's bicentennial in 1954
'Plenty of hard work, seasoned with a reasonable amount of wholesome recreation, and frosted with a keen sense of humor will make us an Army that cannot be beaten. You have a big part to play in such a product.'
-- Letter by Col. E.T. Parker, to be given to all recruits when they arrived at the Fort Bragg Field Artillery Replacement Training Center in 1941
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