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Scenes from Holly Springs Homecoming 2025
By Karen Brewer, Publisher & Editor
Holly Springs Center was the setting for a reunion of former students, faculty, and staff of the former Holly Springs Elementary School, as well as members of the Holly Springs community, north of Pickens off Highway 178. The Saturday, May 3, 2025 reunion, celebrating seven decades of the current building, included many activities and the sharing of memories.
The building that is now home to the Holly Springs Center opened in 1954 as the third building that was Holly Springs Elementary School. (The first Holly Springs Elementary School opened in 1881.) The school closed in 2016 due to consolidation but reopened as the Holly Springs Center, a School of Mountain Arts and Heritage, offering classes in pottery making, woodworking, music, ceramics, weaving, beekeeping, painting, stained glass, and much more. Holly Springs Center also offers a preschool.
Below, view 31 photos from the Holly Springs Homecoming.
Principals and staff from the former Holly Springs Elementary School gathered for a reunion on Saturday, May 3, 2025 at the Holly Springs Center. Pictured are Pam Gravely, Kay Cooper, Doug Limbaugh, Kim Kellett, Jane Chastain, Michelle Durham, Lynn Townes, Ann Bowen, Carol Ayers, Donna Harden, Betty McDaniel, Cathy Frierson, and Michael Searcy. (Photo by Karen Brewer, The Pickens County Chronicle)
Former students of Holly Springs Elementary School Jerry Couch and his wife, Beth, with Lynn Townes at the Holly Springs Reunion on Saturday, May 3, 2025. (Photo by Karen Brewer, The Pickens County Chronicle)
Pictured clockwise from left to right are Betty McDaniel (Chair of the Holly Springs Center Board of Directors), Connie Hardin, Jennie Sue Cassell, and Leshia Bentley Jennings enjoying the Holly Springs Reunion. (Photo by Karen Brewer, The Pickens County Chronicle)
Bluegrass and Company sang and played for the audience at the Holly Springs Reunion on Saturday, May 3, 2025. (Photos by Karen Brewer, The Pickens County Chronicle)
(Photos by Karen Brewer, The Pickens County Chronicle)
(Photos by Karen Brewer, The Pickens County Chronicle)
