All Roads Lead to Baxter
Mitchum, Anita Cunningham
Baxter Seminary existed for the purpose of offering a Christian education to the boys and girls of the Cumberland Plateau who needed to work their way in order to secure an education. It trained them in Christian citizenship for a life of usefulness. Its dedicated triumverate, Dr. and Mrs. Harry Lee Upperman, and Dean Ethelyn P. Hill, believed that "instruction was the least part of education." In 1923, the Uppermans arrived in the small town ...