Museum free on heritage day
By Julie Chautin CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Once again the Cherokee County Historical Museum is celebrating Heritage Day with free admission all day long. There will also be a Silent Auction and Bake Sale and donations for these events are welcome.

To help ease appetite pangs, the Civitan Club will be selling hot dogs from their cart in front of the museum in downtown Murphy.

Museum director Wanda Stalcup is hoping the museum will be filled with visitors on August 30 since many new items have been added to the collection.

Martha Palmer, Museum Council Secretary recently donated an old-fashioned toaster to the museum that her mother had used at home to make Palmer toast when she was little. Thelma Axley was a first grade teacher at Peachtree School for over twenty years. Her daughter Martha wasn't the only child having toast in the morning back then.

Every day when she came to school Axley made sure her class had toast and milk to start off the day. She instructed the cafeteria workers to make toast for her class, and the children paid 2 pennies for a carton of milk.

CCHM's director Wanda Stalcup remembers having toast in "Mrs. Axley's" class. Axley not only taught Stalcup, she taught Stalcup's father when he was in first grade, and he had toast too. It was a simple act that made a huge difference in the life of a poor child.

Although Thelma Axley passed away in 2000 at the age of 94, there are still teachers performing small miracles in Cherokee County classrooms every day. The museum recognizes the importance education has always had in Cherokee County with its schoolroom replica in one corner. Visitors on Heritage Day are encouraged to visit every corner of the museum. Call 837-6792 for details.

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