The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, celebrated on July 16, was first instituted in the late 14th century in commemoration of the approval of the rule of the Carmelite Order a hundred years earlier.

The largest fires in Western North Carolina were the Deep Woods and Black Cove fires in Polk County, not far from the S.C.

So it’s unlikely any alumni base in the state celebrated earning a trip to Champaign as long or as hard as St. Patrick’s community did after the Shamrocks upset Mount Carmel 49-48 in the Class ...