Paulina Campbell, 8th grade, Woodlawn School

For me, the Iredell County experience consists mainly of my school day, on the campus of Woodlawn School. I wake up and spend my day, from 8:20 to 3:15 (and sometimes longer) in school, in Iredell County. Through school, I spend time with the residents at the Brain Center, learning to appreciate the older generation. I run on the school’s cross country course. Within the county limits, one can find many of the courses where the opposing teams host meets. I spend numerous summer evenings at the Lake Campus, Davidson College’s property on Lake Norman, as the sun sets, of course, to avoid the use of sunscreen.
   
Iredell’s definition predominantly includes its history. The Woodlawn campus encompasses the land that its owners formerly ran as a plantation, so its history as part of the old back-woods plantations of North Carolina helps define it. Towns, the roads connecting them, and the deserted train tracks that run beside them shape this county. While in Iredell, I constantly notice the trash fringing these roads, and the empty buildings, usually broken-down factories or stores, and some of the houses that experienced better days. In terms of outdoors, the county supports lots of red clay “dirt” found frequently in the Carolinas, and an abundant amount of kudzu growing over anything it grabs. For the future, I hope Iredell retains the cows and trees that feel at home there, but also manages to clean up its roadsides and utilize the empty buildings.

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