[Granny Bear]

Well there were committees for EVERYTHING when HC started up. The school colors were chosen by committee as well as the mascot. Well, the first mascot was a Knight! LOL The Harlan County Knights!!! After one year of protests, another meeting was called and this old gentlemen addressed the crowd by saying that he had lived in these mountains for 73 years and had never seen the first "knight" roaming around. LOL He suggested we change the mascot to the coal miners, the rattlesnakes or the black bears!

The rest is history.

Oh, and there's history with each of the mascots that he suggested, too. Coal Miners is obvious and the holler where the school was built used to be called rattlesnake holler. Black bears just live there!