NewsSportsEntertainmentLifestyleOpinionUSA TODAYObituariesE-EditionLegals Davidson County native reflects on more than a decade of parks and recreation advocacy Stepping down from TRIP does not mean stepping back from advocating for progress for Davidson County, said Edgar Miller The Dispatch Abbotts Creek, High Rock Lake and Boone's Cave Park called out to Edgar Miller when he was a young boy looking for adventures and recreation in Davidson County. The Eagle Scout swam and waterskied at High Rock Lake and camped with his Boy Scout Troop at the little forested knoll in the median strip south of Old Highway 64. Its destruction years later to make way for Interstate 85 transformed Miller's mindset, making him into the environmental activist he became as an adult when he saw how quickly the beauty of nature can be mowed over and wiped out in the name of progress.