August is the month for picnics and Home Comings in this section of the country, and our congregation Good Shepherd, Cooleemee has participated in several of them… . August in Davie and Rowan impresses one that life is just one picnic after another. And the cookery is excellent. The fame of these tables has gone out far and wide. The women in these counties have graduated in highest schools of culinary art, and the amount of provision at these picnics attests to the fact that the men are good providers. Prosperity, generous hospitality, fine citizenship, characterize this section of country.

(Source: The Carolina Churchman, October 1928, 7)