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January 1971 3 haven't forgotten them. I'm grate­ yearly issues into a single volume, READERS' ful for the article. as we did in the volume entitled "Sandlapper 1968." COMMENTS Anna Ruth Kietzman We do not plan to publish an­ (Mrs. Carl W. Kietzman) other such volume. The 1968 book Milford, Ohio Sandlapper welcomes letters to was published because we sold out the editor on matters of general in­ We are the proud owners of of the first three months' issues and terest. We ask that the letters be "Sandlapper 1968" and we are dis­ knew there would be a number of held to 150 words or less. Excerpts appointed to find out that there is new subscribers who would wish to from this month's letters are pre­ no "Sandlapper 1969" or "Sand­ have all the articles, beginning with sented below. lapper 1970." the very first issue of the magazine. All the back issues except I'd like to make a comment on Anne Cunningham January-March 1968 and January the article in the November issue on (Mrs. W.C. Cunningham) 1969 are still in print. Thus, by the Alamo. As a Texan born and Aiken, South Carolina ordering "Sandlapper 1968" and bred, I'd like to let the author available back issues, a subscriber know that though movie people We have had a number of in­ can obtain all articles ever printed and novelists may forget Travis and quiries concerning whether or not in "Sandlapper" except those in the Bonham, the people of Texas we would bind the articles from the January 196 9 issue. Ed.

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amount needed is not known. Sup­ porters of the building project are seeking to allay opposition to the To Move move from the old location. "Either way we go, our potential is tremendous," Morris says. "If we can't have the new building, then we must get the money to air­ condition our present home, con­ or Not to Move tinue with its restoration and ren­ ovation and plan some kind of expansion." henomenal growth in the !)ast growth was measured by years. The museum is presently housed Pdecade, a present brimming with A $750,000 gift from philanthro­ about two miles from the center of excitement and a future of pist Arthur Magill to form a nucleus the city in the fascinating old Gass­ almost unlimited potential char­ building fund for a new museum at away Mansion, one of Greenville's acterize the Greenville County Greenville's downtown civic center most spectacular architectural feats. Museum of Art. was announced in February 1969. The 61h-acre site also contains the "Late starters don't always finish The site is already graced by the $100,000 Museum School of Art, last," says Jack A. Morris Jr., mu­ Greenville County Library and the completed in the fall of 1969. seum director. He explains: "The Greenville Little Theatre, which The air-conditioned two-story Charleston Museum was the first in also houses the Magill Music Hall. brick school building is said to be the nation, but its art collection has Magill's munificent gift came one of the finest museum schools been housed for many years in the only five days after the Greenville of its size in the nation. Seven Gibbes Gallery. The Columbia County Foundation had presented studio areas share a common floor, Museum of Art has dominated the the museum with the civic center a feature that unites the various South Carolina art world in the site, worth an estimated $300,000. disciplines-painting, sculpture and '60s, but I honestly believe the Museum commission members have ceramics. The north-northeast ex­ Greenville museum will be South projected a 52,000-square-foot terior wall of 10-foot-high ther­ Carolina's outstanding museum in structure that should be one of the mopane glass provides fine lighting the '70s." finest museum facilities in the for daytime classes, while a care­ Morris bases his prediction upon Southeast. fully balanced system of fluores­ the city's rate of expansion. Com­ Since the gifts are contingent on cent and incandescent lights pro­ munity acceptance and support of the commencement of construction vides illumination for night work. the museum are spiralling. Program­ within two years, a fund drive to But it is the mansion itself and ming and patronage expand from realize the balance of building costs the splendid and spacious site that month to month-where once must be conducted. At present the some museum supporters demur

The Greenville County Museum of Art is now housed in the old Gassaway Mansion on DuPont Avenue. In the past decade it has outgrown its quarters and a nucleus building fund for a new structure in Greenville's downtown civic center has been announced. Supporters of the project are seeking to allay opposition to the move from the present location.

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January 1971 9 over abandoning. The unique struc­ ture, five years in the building, was completed in 1924. The stone used as the major building material came from the old Richard Pearis Mill, one of Greenville's first permanent structures, erected in 1776. The Walter Gassaways acquired the stone in 1919 when the old mill was dismantled. They supple­ mented it with similar stone, artifi­ cially aged to correspond with that from the mill. The extensive grounds then included 100 acres. A dairy, a farm, stables and various outbuild­ ings rendered the estate, Isaqueena, virtually self-sustaining. Mrs. Gassaway was fascinated with European architecture. She took an architectural correspond­ ence course, then designed the house herself, incorporating all the features and styles she had admired. The price tag in 1924 was $790,000, but a Greenville contrac­ tor says that it could not be dupli­ cated for less than $2 million and that he would not touch the project for under $4 million. The real key to the staggering cost of the 40- room mansion is its intricate crafts­ man ship-in woodwork, carvings, tiles, leaded glass, moldings and other detail work. Mrs. Gassaway was to enjoy her fabulous home for only five years before the Depression of 1930 reduced the family circumstances and the home reverted to the Nor­ wood Bank. Much of the land was lations throughout the structure. plish our long-range objective-to sold and the building was converted Restoration has been undertaken establish and maintain the finest art into rental apartments. but lack of air conditioning is a center program in South Caroiina." In May 1959 the Greenville Art valid argument for the abandonment McCall adds, "We are closer to Association, motivated by E.H. of the site. To install it in the ram­ this goal than most realize. Once it Henley and Mrs. John Holmes, bling structure would be extremely is attained, we must be prepared to purchased the house and 61h acres expensive. Security problems and a follow through continuing support. for $68,000. The museum was constant need for repair and up­ We have a big job ahead as we at­ formally opened to the public the keep are also motivations for a tempt to solidify our plans for the following September, and seven modem structure. future. Exciting months are ahead." months later the entire cost of the Arthur C. McCall, museum com­ The past decade in the old man­ purchase had been paid by contri­ mission chairman, says the museum sion has seen scores of community butions from interested citizens. commission and staff have recently services developed, many activities The Greenville Art Association surveyed "current operations, ef­ initiated, multiple exhibitions and ir.herited many problems with its fectiveness, limitations and the the expansion of the museum's new home. It had seen much abuse prospects for the future." He says holdings. during its years as an apartment the findings indicate that "our The museum commission, estab­ house and was marred by recently physical plant and base of opera­ lished in 1964 by the Greenville added partitions and kitchen instal- tion should be relocated to accom- County Legislature Delegation, is

10 Sand lap per Left: The Museum School of Art, established in 1964, is supervised by Mrs. Jeanet Dreskin and has over 1,000 students. Left below: A view ot the main gallery ot the museum during the Contemporary Arts show. Below: A group of youngsters watch a Christmas puppet show. patterned after the public com­ teers to conduct programs. Public for volunteers to serve as docents missions in Charleston and Colum­ attendance had tripled, and art prefaced the many museum and bia. Within a year of its founding school enrollment almost doubled. extension programs. The· art asso­ the museum was operating on a At this time plans were made for ciation's varied programs drew a firm business and professional basis the new school building; the value total attendance of 50,000 in 1969. and held its first major exhibition: of the collection had jumped to During the past decade, the staff "The Maremont Collection of 10th $120,000. has increased to three professionals, Century Art." The next two years saw even has added three clerical workers The Museum School of Art was more remarkable growth in mu- and by late 1969 had an average of established in the old carriage house seum activities-exhibitions, film 64 volunteers working each week. with the aid of the Junior League showings and concerts increased in Renovations expanded usuable of Greenville, Inc. Enrollment frequency and attendance as the floor space from 5,000 square feet jumped from 200 in 1964 to 360 in museum staff sought to meet public in 19 59 to 28,000 square feet 1965. Overall attendance was just demand. Classes were offered morn- (capacity) in 1969. The value of over 10,000 and 30 groups were ings, afternoons and evenings three collections in late 1969 was given tours by the first volunteer semesters a year by 13 professional $230,000. docent corps. instructors who taught 55 different But collections were being jeop- By the end of 1966 the museum courses to 726 classes. ardized. The lack of security was a had opened its education depart­ Education department programs constant threat and an environ­ ment with a full-time curator of were designed for all school ages. mental control system was non­ education and a force of 18 volun- Training and orientation programs existent. The inadequacies were slowing the further expansion of SAM. SAM is a fundamental art Mrs. Sylvia Lanford Marchant is exhibitions and accessions. Founda­ teaching aid on wheels, designed to the director of education at the tions, collectors and other donors familiarize students and the general museum and it is under her guid­ sometimes hesitated to lend or public with materials, tools and ance that the program has been donate art to be housed in the pre­ techniques employed by artists. expanded to its present broad out­ sent structure. Space was becoming SAM stresses interrelationships in reach. a real problem. the four art areas and stimulates Whether the museum remains in One of the innovative solutions interest in the "hows" and "whys" the mansion or makes a new home to expanding the student program of the making of art objects. in the downtown civic center, its under the present situation was SAM has gained nationwide impact is certain to be felt on the recognition and is scheduled to visit community. The tremendous recent as many schools as possible each growth and increasing public in­ year in the upstate area. Since it terest indicate a bright future for was partially financed by a the varied programs of the museum. $10,000-grant from the State Arts SAM, the Student Art Mobile, tours secondary schools in Greenville, Commission, it travels to Laurens Pickens and Laurens counties, and Pickens counties also, visiting Lucille B. Green is a staff writer for giving students new insight into art skills. all secondary schools. the Greenville News.

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12 Sandlapper South Carolina's First Ladr of Letters

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January 1971 13 i n Oct. 20, 1968, more than 300 use in South Carolina schools since venture undertaken by the Univer­ distinguished South Carolina that time. sity of South Carolina Press thus Ostatesmen, educators, historians William Gilmore Simms' "His­ far," the collection of Simms cor­ and authors gathered at Woodlands, tory of South Carolina from its respondence carries on its title page the Simms ancestral home in Bam­ First European Discovery to its the names of his granddaughter, berg County to honor the state's Erection into a Republic" was first Mary C. Simms Oliphant, the late most widely studied historian, Mary published in 1840. At that time Alfred Taylor Odell, professor of C. Simms Oliphant. Mrs. Oliphant Simms was one of the most prolific English at Furman University, T.C. has written eight textbooks and and popular writers of fiction and Duncan Eaves of the University of three readers studied in South Caro­ poetry in America. He said that he Arkansas, Prof. Donald Davidson of lina schools over the past 50 years. wrote this first school history of Vanderbilt University, who wrote In addition, Mrs. Oliphant has co­ South Carolina for his daughter. the introduction, and Alexander S. edited six volumes of the letters The dedication reads: "To the Salley, author of the biographical and writings of her grandfather, youth of South Carolina, this text. William Gilmore Simms. She has record of the deeds, trials and As early as 1937, President Ben­ also published "The Works of A.S. virtues of their ancestors, is respect­ jamin E. Geer of Furman University Salley," long-time state historian fully inscribed by their friend and urged Dr. Odell and Mrs. Oliphant and author. The gathering of family countryman, the author." to undertake a biography of Simms. and friends at the home of Mrs. Oli­ Mrs. Oliphant's "Simms' His­ It was while doing library research phant's grandfather that October tory," updated in 1917, was re­ on Simms that Mrs. Oliphant and day came to recognize and pay adopted in 1922 and 1927, and a Dr. Odell agreed that it "became honor to her 50 years as an author completely new edition was written apparent that the great mass of and editor of South Carolina his­ in 1932. In 1940, the centennial of extant Simms letters made an edit­ tory. the original publication, Mrs. Oli­ ing of them imperative." The work In 1916, Mary Chevillette phant published the very attractive continued until Dr. Odell's death in Simms, recently graduated from the Centennial Edition. 1948. After this calamity in the loss College for Women in Columbia In 1927, Mrs. Oliphant's "South of her coeditor, Mrs. Oliphant se­ with degrees in liberal arts and Carolina Reader" was adopted for cured the partnership of the bril­ piano, began work on a revised use in the grammar grades. The liant Union, South Carolina, native, edition of her grandfather's history, reader featured maps and illus­ Prof. T.C. Duncan Eaves of the Uni­ long out-of-print. An eminent trations which appealed to young versity of Arkansas. South Carolina historian, the late students. Mrs. Oliphant has also The publication of the first A.S. Salley, described her at that published two workbooks for volume of the Simms "Letters" time as "a most energetic and versa­ school children: "Our State and won universal acclaim. Historian tile young granddaughter of the Palmetto History Problems" and a Bell Wiley of Emory University author of the first school history of "Manual for a Course in Citizen­ wrote, "The extent and diversity of South Carolina." Before her book ship." In 1948 she and her the knowledge which they reveal is was completed, Miss Simms was daughter, Mrs. Mary Simms Oli­ nothing short of amazing." "Satur­ married, on March 1, 1917, to phant Furman, brought out a color­ day Review" referred to the Albert Drane Oliphant. Mrs. Oli­ ful children's book, "Gateway to "Letters" as "An astonishingly rich phant appeared before the State South Carolina." lode of information on Southern Board of Education in the spring One of Mrs. Oliphant's greatest literature and life in this time of and "presented her own case in ambitions was achieved in 1952 stress." Hugh Holman of the Uni­ such an attractive and convincing when the first volume of "The versity of North Carolina appraised manner" that her book was Letters of William Gilmore Simms" the volume as "one of the most im­ adopted as a textbook for public was published by the University of portant bodies of source material school use for the next five years. South Carolina Press. Described as ever published in the field of South­ Her texts have been in continuous ''the most ambitious publication ern American literature." "The

14 Sand lap per New York Times' " Book Review texts are presented to school chil­ College for Women which she at­ Section tenned the publication "a dren in South Carolina. Everything tended. At the head of the college champagne occasion." Five volumes from Indians to astronauts, canoes was Miss Euphemia McClintock, of the "Letters" were published and sailboats to Polaris submarines, who is now honored by a memorial between 1952 and 1957, and a and candlelight to nuclear-power­ Chair of Southern Letters at the sixth volume is being prepared for produced electricity is described University of South Carolina­ publication. and pictured. largely through the efforts of Mrs. In 1969 the first volume of "The The readiness and ease with Oliphant. Miss McClintock prior to Centennial Edition of the Writings which Mrs. Oliphant speaks and her 1914 attempted to make the col­ of William Gilmore Simms," "Volt­ remarkable fund of information lege the women's division of the meier or The Mountain Men," was bring many requests to speak at university. published by the University of historical, literary, school and civic Mrs. Oliphant has been a valuable South Carolina Press, with Mrs. Oli­ meetings. She has been honored member of the executive com­ phant and the late Donald Davidson with a merit award from the Amer­ mittee of the Caroliniana Society of as coeditors. This is the first of the ican Association for State and the university, helping assemble the reprints of Simms' works, most of Local History, and she is one of great mass of Simms material there. which have been long out-of-print. South Carolina's first honorary She has been an important figure in The Simms "Letters" have been members of Delta Kappa Gamma the recording of history and the described as "one of the most im­ Society for Teachers. She was one pursuit of historical material in the portant literary publications ever of the organizers of the Greenville state for the last 50 years, and her issued in South Carolina," and it is Committee of the Colonial Dames interest and energy remain un­ not surprising that their publication of America in South Carolina, and diminished. has brought honors to the authors has been honored by that group One of the delightful sides of and editors. Receptions in with an American flag which was Mrs. Oliphant is the social life in Columbia and Greenville greeted presented to the state headquarters her home. As did her famous grand­ the appearance of the first volume. in the Old Powder Magazine in father at Woodlands, Mrs. Oliphant Each subsequent volume has been Charleston. hailed by scholars and historians Mrs. Oliphant remembers the re­ Mrs. Oliphant and the late scholar throughout America and in Europe. cently restored Hampton-Preston Donald Davidson work on the The collection of Simms' works in house in Columbia as part of the "Voltmeier" manuscript in Greenville. the Centennial Edition promises to be equally valuable to students of Southern literature. Pursuing the more scholarly works has not prevented the ever­ active Mrs. Oliphant from keeping the history texts up-to-date. In 1958, she published a completely new and revised "History." Most recently, the handsome and attrac­ tive Tricentennial Edition has been produced with her daughter, Mary C. Simms Oliphant Furman, and her son, W. Gilmore Simms Oli­ phant. The colorful pictures make this latest school book attractive and easy to read. There is no com­ munication gap when these lively

January 1971 15 frequently keeps "open house" in (with her collaborators) the five characterized Mrs. Oliphant as "an her attractive home on James Street volumes of 'The Letters of William excellent example of the sort of in Greenville. The formal garden in Gilmore Simms' is in itself a work scholar who seems to flourish much the rear, patterned after the Edgar entitling her to the highest dis­ more in Britain than here-the Allan Poe garden in Richmond, and tinction. The merits and indeed the antiquarian whose researches are a the spacious front yard with its unique comprehensiveness of that labor of love, generally upon the great old trees, flowering shrubs work alone brought to her national local level, but conducted with the and spreading ivy provide a charm­ and international recognition. Of skill, the energy, the ·sense of pro­ ing setting for the house, one of hardly less value, and more pene­ portion and the care that we expect Greenville's oldest. Its early Geor­ trating at all levels of our culture, is of those for whom research is a gian elegance has been beautifully her work in producing, in various living as well as a profession." restored by Mrs. Oliphant. Spacious editions, the admirable textbook The A ward of Merit from the and attractively appointed, the history of South Carolina.... I American Association of State and . house seems to expand when full of know of no school history text of Local History made to Mrs. Oli­ company, as when more than 500 any state more beautifully done, phant in 1 964 reads, "Worthy persons came to see a Colonial more definitely representative of granddaughter of eminent grand­ Dames' exhibit of South Carolina what a state history for schools sire, she learned South Carolina silver there several years ago. should be. The same can be said for state and local history from her Mrs. Oliphant's organizing ability the supplementary work, in col­ elders, encouraged her contem­ and determination were made evi­ laboration with her daughter, ar­ poraries to cherish it, and taught dent when the State Highway De­ ranged for the lower school grades. succeeding generations of children partment recently proposed a new No less praise," he continued, to love and understand it." bypass through the city which en­ "should go to Mrs. Oliphant for all We are all immensely in her debt, d angered her historic home and that she has done toward the pres­ both for her precept and for her several nearby landmarks. Within ervation of documents, historical example. weeks she organized the city and buildings, local traditions and high literally flooded the authorities memories." with petitions and signatures which Dr. James B. Meriwether of the Charles E. Thomas is a free-lance quickly dissuaded the powers-that­ University of South Carolina has writer from Greenville. be from bringing the new highway through the James Street section of Greenville. With equal speed and success, she was able to have her house and nearby Whitehall, built in 1813, placed on the National Register-the first in Greenville County to attain this recognition and distinction. The late Vanderbilt University scholar, Donald Davidson, who worked so closely with Mrs. Oli­ phant through the years, wrote of her shortly before his death: "Her accomplishment in collecting through the years and in editing

Mrs. Oilphant in the foyer of her James Street residence, one of Greenville's oldest homes. - Photo by James G. Wilson

16 Sandlapper SOUTH CAROLINA TRICENTENNIAL CROSS-NUMBER PUZZLE By Frank E. Oneal (Answers on page 70) ACROSS 1. l\ linimum age of juror DOWN 3 . i\liles Columbia lo l\ lyrtle Beach 6. Number on pclit jury 1. Sum o f digits equals number of Confederate States 8. Area Williamsburg Co. (sq. mi.) 2. Miles o f Charleston-I lam burg R.R. 10. Sum o f digits equals no. judicial circuits 3. City o f Columbia platted 12 . U.S. Hwy. Columbia to Chester 4. No. S.C. Hwy. Andrews to Charleston 13. Population Greenville 1960 5. DeSoto in S.C. (year). 15. Population Anderson 1960 6. X + 6 = 132 17. Interstate planned fro m Columbia lo Augusta 7. S.C. minimum age fo r voting 18. Area Oconee Co. (sq . m i.) 9. Po pulation Bam burg Co .. 1960 19. Nothing 10. ri. le m bers of grand jury 20. Intolerable Acts enacted (year) 11. Num ber of Union States 22. \/51,136,801 12. Area of S .C. (sq. mi.) 24. Number S.C. I louse of Represen tatives 14. No. S .C. 1l wy. \Valhalla-Cashiers, N.C. A Unique Coeducational 25. Sum of d igits equals Lee's h irthdate in J an. 16. No. S.C. ll wy. Orangeburg-A llendale JUNIOR COLLEGE 29. U.S. l lwy. Lancaster to Georgetown 20. Sum of d igits equal amendment freeing the slaves 31. U.S. Hv,:y. Westminster to Columbia 21. Population Spartanburg 1960 32. S.C. population 1960 22. Population Sumter Co. 1960 • Associate in Arts degree. 33. Miles Charleston to l\ lyrt.le Beach 23. Sum of digits equals nu mber State Board of Edu- 34. Area Newberry Co. (sq. mi.) cation. • Dormitories for boys and girls. 36 . Sum of digits equals amendment eliminating poll 24. U.S. 1l wy. Spartanburg to Union lax for voting 26. Area Beaufort Co. (sq. mi.) • Required, supervised study for 37. Area Charl eston Co. (sq. m i.) 27. Number of S.C. I louse of Representatives all. 38. Ribaut's French on Parris Island (year) 28. Arca Barnwell Co. (sq. mi.) 40. First permanent European settlement S.C. (year) 30. t\ liles- G reenville to Sumler • Intercollegiate football and 42. Sum o f digits equals number grand jury 35. Population of Charleston, 1960 ROTC for boys. 43. 0- liles Columbia to Greenvill e 37. Population of Columbia. 1960 45. Ko. counties having county seat names differing 39. Area Fairfield Co. (sq. mi.) • 55 miles from Atlanta. (near from county names 4 l. 1 \/BIO )2 enough, but far enough.) 46. Population Darlington Co. 1 960 43. University of S.C. started (year) 48. Po pulation A ikcn Co. 1960 4-L Clemson gave property fo r college (year) • Cars allowed. 51. J\lembership U.S. llo use of llepresentatives 46. J\ lembcrs o f U.S. Congress 52. (~ )2 47. Number letter win alphabet Write Admissions, Dept. S 53. Numher of years S.C . settled by Europeans '19 . Nu mber Con federate States GORDON Ml LITARY COLLEGE 55. Maximum age for jurors 50 . Arca Code S .C. (telephone) 56. Arabic CLXI X 51. Miles Winnsboro to Union BARNESVILLE, GA. 30204 57. Minimum age fo r governor 54 . Noth ing

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f downtown America is to lose the image of a ho-hum place that Ihasn't turned anybody on since the first suburban shopping center was opened, it just might happen in Greenville, South Carolina. The reason for painting such an optimistic picture for the future of downtown Greenville is a plan to develop a scenic shopping strollway with fountains, sculpture, decora­ tive plantings, kiosks and hundreds of trees that will follow a winding path through the seven-block-long canyon-like runway that is now Main Street. Above: 300 trees will furnish Developed by the Greater Green­ welcome shade for the summertime shopper. Opposite: Planters, decorative ville Chamber of Commerce as the lighting and patterned pavement add focal point of its Total Develop­ to the strollway's appearance. ment Plan for downtown improve­ ments, the Greenville strollway will be a warm, inviting, plaza-like re­ treat that will encourage leisurely shopping and, at the same time, permit limited through traffic to continue to use the street. This will be accomplished by removing all parking from the street and redi­ recting the remaining four lanes in a serpentine manner from block to block, slowing vehicular traffic and breaking the long void effect of today's "straight as an arrow" as­ phalt street.

18 Sand lap per Strollway architect James R. light level, continuous from curb to Lawrence calls the concept "pedes­ building front and throughout the trian oriented" and predicts for entire length of the redeveloped Main Street an atmosphere of area. excitement and color. Preliminary There are 14 kiosks distributed plans call for planting approxi­ throughout the strollway, with each mately 300 trees along the stroll­ including a mail drop, telephone way and enough evergreen planting and an area suitable for posting and flowering annuals to fill each of special civic announcements and the more than 700 planters, as well notices. as four garden court areas. Trees Pedestrian shelters planned for will be planted in the earth and not each block should become popular in planters and will be large enough gathering spots, especially on rainy and with dense enough foliage to days, and underground snow and provide comfortable shade in the ice melting devices will keep the summer months. Decorative light­ pedestrian trafficway (sidewalk) ing for many of the trees will help hazard-free during the winter create a festive atmosphere for months. evening shopping. And since pres­ Present plans also call for the ent streetlighting was designed to construction of 14 comfort sta­ serve vehicular traffic, special light­ tions, 282 benches and individual ing fixtures are planned to light the seats, 45 trash receptacles and 66 strollway. These fixtures will be tables, as well as water fountains, scaled to the pedestrian and will clocks, bollards and balustrades. provide him with a warm, pleasant Crystal clear water will cascade

January 1971 19 The strollway plan includes 14 kiosks with telephones, mail drops and announcement boards. Even a sidewalk cafe has been suggested.

from contemporary sculpture complementing the seven fountains along the strollway. With water spilling or falling over the sculp­ tured forms, the bothersome spray associated with many fountains on windy days can be avoided. During the few winter days when freezing would require turning off the water, the sculpture itself will pro­ vide a handsome substitute for the water cascade, and the fountain will not become simply an empty bowl which detracts from the carefully planned appearance of the stroll­ way. At the intersection of Main and Court streets, the strollway plan effect of the long street. calls for construction of four larger Chamber officials say property fountains in existing mini-parks sur­ owners are nearly unanimous in rounded by special seating arrange­ their view that the strollway is an ments and garden-like landscaping. essential element in revitalizing Architect Lawrence also suggests downtown and reversing the trend that one of the Court Street squares of decentralization. be developed as a sidewalk cafe. A Main Street owner who has The pedestrian trafficway will be seen income from his leases drop paved with coarse, pre-cast, ex­ steadily over the past few years posed stone aggregate and all other says, "The plan would make a paved strollway areas will feature downtown lease valuable." k i 1n -fired clay paving bricks of Another echoes, "I'm willing to various design and color. Inter­ go along with it 100 per cent. The sections where side streets cross the merchant can pull up stakes and strollway will also be paved with leave when his lease expires, but the the special brick in a mosaic design property owner can't ." to break further the monotonous Typical comments from the

20 Sandlapper buildings and the city also plans to construct a multistory parking facility downtown. City and county officials have selected a downtown site for the construction of a new law enforce­ ment center that, when completed, will cost in excess of $5 million. And with Greenvillians outgrowing America's most successful (for its size) auditorium, plans are well underway for construction of a multipurpose arena and convention center complex on an adjacent downtown site. But downtown redevelopment is too important to take for granted, so the chamber of commerce has employed in conjunction with its development plan a full-time staff director with a design and city­ planning background. The staff functions of the new department will include planning, coordination, communications and public rela­ tions, providing the chamber a ladies are, "I think it's just beau­ exceed $61.5 million over the next means by which to function as a tiful" and "It makes me want to 15 years. bridge between private enterprise come downtown. I don't see how The Greenville News and Pied­ and public administration and to anyone could be against it." mont newspapers occupied a new promote cooperation in specific As exciting as the strollway con­ $4 million building last year and development projects. cept is, it is but one project of the ground has been broken across the For the chamber of commerce chamber of commerce development street for Greenville's new high-rise and the Total Development Plan plan for downtown improvements. city hall building. Architectural committee, downtown redevelop­ A committee of 25 members, se­ plans released during October ment has entered into the most lected from business and govern­ depict a double tower adjacent to difficult and challenging stage­ ment because of their leadership the city hall that could be con­ action and implementation. and ability "to make things hap­ structed later for occupancy by Nobody predicts instant success, pen," retained consultants to pre­ either county or metropolitan but success will come. pare planning, design and economic government. Ho-hum will not describe Green­ studies for Greenville's downtown. The Peoples National Bank and ville! Current projections for new build­ the City of Greenville have an­ ings, street improvements, parking nounced plans to develop a three­ James G. Vaughan Jr. is editor of facilities and other construction block complex of office/parking "The Big G."

January 1971 21 THE ROCK HO"USE BUil T BY THE 'TERROR OF THE TORIES'

Capt. Billy Young, a hero of the Revolution who built the Rock House, is said to have employed a stonemason from Italy. Since the structure was completed in 1819, it has served as a stagecoach stop, a post office and possibly a fort, as well as its present use as a dwelling.

-Photos by Robert Smeltzer

22 Sandlap per "I came out here one bleak No­ soft-spoken.'' the front door, lying on the ground vember day. You can't imagine The lady was Mrs. Harry Hayns­ and apparently used as a doorstep. what the house looked like. It worth III of Greenville. She was It has written on it 'In Loving was so dark inside you needed a talking about the tawny, red-roofed Memory of Capt. Billy Young,' flashlight. Vandals had literally tom Rock House, completed in 1819. A with the letters 'YOU' on one line the place to pieces. They'd dumped delicate woman with big lustrous and 'NG' on the next line. The trunkfuls of papers all over the eyes, mother of four little daugh­ stonecutter seems to have gotten attic, they'd set the house afire, ters, Mrs. Haynsworth is the wife of his spacing wrong. torn down the stair rail and yanked a trust officer at the South Carolina "I understand it took 17 or 18 out the mantelpieces. National Bank and sister-in-law of years to finish the house, which was "A story had gotten around that Judge Clement Haynsworth. Her a stagecoach stop and later a post there was treasure buried in the family came to Greenville from office. It might have been a fort, house. Of course there wasn't, but Mayesville, near Sumter, where her too. The walls are of great rough­ the place was a complete wreck. I father had been in the lumber hewn rocks hauled 30 miles in said to myself, 'This is where I want business. oxcarts from Caesars Head and put to live; this is going to be my In describing her home, Mrs. up by slave labor. home.' " The lady who was talking Haynsworth remarked that it was "Besides being wrecked when we smiled to herself. built by Capt. Billy Young, a hero bought it," she said, "the house was "It took me three months to of the Revolution, known then as scary. The front hall had been convince my husband to buy it. He the "terror of the Tories." She said burned out, plaster had fallen from thought I was mad. He'd say, 'What she had heard widely differing dates the ceilings-the vandals had just do you want that old pile of junk for its construction. One lady who run wild. I was afraid to come in for?'" The lady glanced around the had lived there said the year was alone. comfortable and spacious living 1792. A more commonly accepted "We bought the house from a room and smiled a quiet little smile date for its completion is 1819. subdivider who wanted to dynamite again. As a visitor relaxing on a big "Capt. Young-everyone in that the house to make way for a new sofa, I thought to myself, "Never war seems to have been a captain at road. He planned to blast this old underestimate the power of a least-is buried right down the road. house down. My heart sank when I woman-no matter how genteel and There is also a tombstone outside heard that. "Eventually we were able to buy the house and three acres-we couldn't afford more. And then the reconstruction problem faced us." Mrs. Haynsworth shook her head in remembered weariness. "We didn't have an architect to suggest plans and it needed a lot of plans. The outside walls are 36 inches thick and there was only one window in each room. Even the inside walls are 26 inches thick. Each room but one had a small cupboard recessed into the outside wall. Those cupboards were too small for a hoopskirt. I don't know what Capt. Billy put in them. "We had some architectural help from the contractor. He had a man working for him who could sketch plans. But before the job was well along he died of a heart attack. Builders on this house seem to have trouble staying alive. Capt. Billy Young is said to have brought a

January 1971 23 rock mason from Italy who fell "And the paint. A colored boy a circular driveway with an en­ from an upstairs window and was and I refinished all the woodwork. trance and exit on the highway, but killed. The rooms had nine coats of paint. after coping with sightseers during "I decided to remove all the One of the coats was black. You the building I wouldn't let him. cupboards and make windows in can imagine the work we had scrap­ They'd just come pouring through the holes. What a job! It took two ing nine coats of paint off all the our yard. I think I should put up a men two weeks to drill out the rock woodwork in this big house. sign at the gate saying 'Admission in those fortress walls and make "Perhaps you noticed the wood­ $10.'" space for another window in the work around the doorways. Those At the time Capt. Billy built the living room. The mortar between planks are heart pine, 24 inches Rock House the inhabitants of the rocks was common red clay. It wide. One good thing about the old Greenville and the western Caro­ had all dried out and crumbled to place was the hard pine. It's so hard linas weren't bothered by sight­ dust over the years and the house the termites won't eat it. And if seers. There were few homes­ when the workmen were here was those vandals had known anything mostly log cabins in the dark for­ filled with red dust. (Red clay they'd have taken the doors­ es ts-and fewer roads, and no might make good mortar but it sure they're called Christian doors." automobiles. About 1825 the State isn't good for slipcovers.) Mrs. Haynsworth went on to say Supervisor of Public Works had 10 "I was here with the workmen that visitors were an unanticipated roads under construction leading every day for six months. I was problem during the reconstruction, westward from Charleston and the forever telling them what I wanted and ever since. "People just coast to the Up Country. They done. 'You can't do that,' they'd swarmed around, coming to see were toll roads. One of the 10 led say, and I'd say 'Yes, I can. You what was happening to the old to Greenville, and among the just go ahead and do what I tell Rock House. Sometimes there were several inns along the way was the you.' as many as 50 a day, asking ques- Rock House. "The problems we ran into! The tions, making suggestions, getting Stagecoaches maintained a fairly floors were completely rotted out. their cars in the way, taking up the regular service on the new roads. The basement was full of water. workmen's time. And they still The fare from Charleston to The beams under the floor were keep coming, though we remodeled Columbia for a passenger and 25 completely rotted, too. We got the place 10 years ago. I don't like pounds of baggage was $10. The down there and found all that was to seem inhospitable, but living in a trip took 18 hours. A four-wheel holding up the floors was a two- historic house has its problems. I carriage drawn by mules or horses inch sapling someone had stuck worry about strangers driving in was charged "100 cents" to pass under there for a prop. We could and hitting a child or one of our each tollgate. A freight wagon paid have all fallen through. dogs. My husband wanted to put in 75 cents. A man on foot paid 6 1/4

Right: Overgrown shrubbery gave the home an unkempt appearance prior to its restoration by the Haynsworths. Far right: Prior to the structure's renovation, the walls of the main entrance hall were decorated with a stencil designed by Henry Y. Thackston, a former occupant of the house.

24 Sand lapper cents to cross a bridge and animals . 'l''t~"' ·""-'J.· ~ -.;, in droves were charged 4 cents for a • ,j•.,•ii\~I}..,._. ~ ...~,~ ..;,i; .::.,.:'!!' .. '\J;..•aiiif1 :i i~'\;~t·>· i horse or mule, 3 cents a head for .... . ,.~... ; ,•[l!,,f cattle and 2 cents for hogs. \\ti.~~ '{{,'ira~. •:ti,' ., . .... :J. ~ ...... :i.· ~ , i• ·~- ;a . .,r ,;s.tia"'!".'.~ '!1' Capt. Billy and many of the suc­ . .r· .... r .r cessive occupants of the Rock House-among them the Rosemans, Perrys and Thackstons-saw many travelers come and go over the years, for stagecoach travel per­ sisted long after the coming of the " /' railroad to South Carolina in 1843. I'·,· t,· In fact, the Rock House was a semipublic house until fairly recent ~··::..;.~, ~.. - •...... ·~'' times, when it saw service as a post , H ,It ii office. ... ::, ;,, ;: In the house Mrs. Haynsworth ~ r; found a battered old secretary used by postmasters to pigeonhole in­ coming mail. It stood in the hall. As she led her visitors from room to room indicating things of interest she touched a cracked mantelpiece. "We're pretty sure that crack was caused by the earthquake of 1886. came to visit her and stayed a year stooped to look once more at the When we got the house the walls and a half. After the friend left she Capt. Billy "YOU" with the under­ were decorated with a floral stencil sent it from England to my aunt as slung "NG" headstone ("I don't pattern. We found the old stencil a house present. After several years know what his wife thought of him, and still have it, but as you can see my aunt decided to sell it. She using his headstone for a door­ the walls are plain now." advertised it in "Antiques" mag­ step") and then looked ruefully at a The house is furnished with an­ azine. I was afraid some fool freshly sawed four-foot tree stump. tiques, many of which were wan­ Yankee would buy it, so before "The most wonderful old oak gled from her mother, Mrs. Charles anyone could answer the ad I stood here. It must have been a Mayes, who now lives next door. bought it myself." hundred years old. But lightning hit "My mother was an avid col­ The Rock House has handsome it twice. It even caught fire the last lector of antiques," Mrs. Hayns­ Pembroke tables, plenty of family time. It shaded one whole side of worth said. "We played a little portraits, mantelpiece facings of the house in the hot summer game with each other. She'd give native stone rather crudely carved months. There went my air­ me a nice piece and I'd set it some­ with flutings, red clay mortar conditioner, the only one I had." place where it didn't look right. So showing where the great rocks are Mrs. Haynsworth, an attractive, she'd say 'That shouldn't be there, fitted, six fireplaces, nine rooms, seemingly shy little creature ( with a it should be in the other room.' So matched polished floorboards ("I wry sense of humor), has shown I'd move it. Then I'd say to her, hate random width floors"), a small great imagination, determination 'But it leaves a gap that doesn't new portico to replace the sprawl­ and energy in saving an ancient look right. I need something to take ing porch that once extended the house from the bulldozers-or in its place,' so she'd give me some­ width of the house on the side this case dynamiters-and thereby thing else to fill the gap. toward the road, a new and spa­ has not only preserved a historic "This refectory table," Mrs. cious screened porch on the shady monument for posterity but at the Haynsworth said in the dining side, and a very modern kitchen same time has provided her family room, touching her chin in some­ which was added to the original with a charming home. Her very thing akin to reverence, "is my building. pretty little daughters, all born in pride and joy. It was made in In bidding her visitor goodbye, the old Rock House, will be grate­ 1300." Mrs. Haynsworth pointed to the ful to her in the years to come- and Her visitor looked dubious as end of the asphalt driveway where so should all the future citizens of there are probably few antiques in she had made her husband stop the Greenville. all South Carolina dating back to paving, and glanced about at the 1300. She explained. "My aunt had giant trees and lawns. She called to Eugene Warner is a free-lance writer it. She got it from a friend who her two lively Irish setters, and from Landrum.

January 1971 25 GREENVILLE'S SLEEPING GIANT

By Nancy V. Ashmore

iedmont Expo Park, conceived colonial period and Columbia's as the crowning jewel of South Midlands Center illustrates the war­ PCarolina's tricentennial cele­ torn and politically turbulent 19th bration, has yet to fulfill its origi­ century. But it is the Piedmont nators' expectations. It stands un­ Park that is devoted to present and finished but full of promise for the future eras of the Palmetto State. A future. capsule look at the state's rich his­ Perched atop Roper Mountain tory, a longer view of recent textile outside Greenville, the wooded and industrial progress, and a 62-acre park affords a spectacular glimpse at the future, all to be view of the Piedmont area against a housed inside Buckminster Fuller's backdrop of the distant Blue Ridge unique geodesic cube-that was the Mountains. Spreading at its feet are plan. But Lady Luck frowned and modern industrial complexes criss­ the concept is yet to reach fruition. crossed with major thoroughfares Unforeseen design and material and interstate highways which problems with the avant-grade annually funnel thousands of vis­ structure prevented completion in itors to the Greenville area, the time for the anniversary summer. textile center of the world. To tap The difficulties developed legal this business and tourist trade and overtones involving liability, and to display graphically South Caro­ the matter was referred to the at­ lina's rapid industrial development torney general's office. It was and future potential were two of November before a settlement was the goals of the South Carolina Tri­ reached. That, however, was late in centennial Commission in planning the tricentennial year and many the Piedmont park. had already lost hope that the park The Tricentennial Pavilion in would ever be more than a make­ Charleston recreates the state's shift affair. Their fears were

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groundless, however, for con­ drawbacks. Hastily constructed en­ tablecloths are made. Equally in­ struction has resumed on the pa­ closing walls sprang leaks in the teresting to them was the 1915 vilion and the geodesic "Tetron" summer rains-as soggy staff Anderson automobile which was will emerge fully formed in early members will readily attest. There manufactured in Rock Hill. Trans­ 1971. Perhaps tardy for partici­ was room for only a portion of the portation has come a long way pation in the tricentennial cele­ originally planned exhibits-as some since those days. bration, the park will be a perma­ disappointed visitors will verify. A film orientation and a word nent addition to South Carolina's Nevertheless the park, which from the scarlet-clad guides pre­ educational and travel attractions. opened July 4, 1970, amid a flurry pared the visitor for his trek Designed as a "building within a of holiday festivities, met with through the upper levels of the building," the five free-standing generally positive responses. building. Whisked to the top by exhibit levels of the pavilion neither Exhibits depict the striking express elevator, the guest was in­ touch the outer aluminum geodesic progress South Carolina has made structed to explore the floors one structure nor depend on it for sup­ in the 20th century and her role as at a time at his own pace. The fifth port. Thus it was possible to en­ the textile center of the world. level ultimately will house three­ close them temporarily when it be­ Modern textile machinery operating dimension al displays on South came apparent in the spring that intermittently on the first level of Carolina's land: its value, variety completion of their geodesic "um­ the pavilion fascinated many a and versatility. The panoramic view brella" might be delayed indef­ visitor during the summer months. which will be available from this initely. The solution was a workable Carolinians as well as out-of-staters upper level has prompted some to one-but by no means without its were eager to see how red-checked refer to the park simply as "Pied-

Left: A popular exhibit at the Expo was a display of the moon suit worn by U.S. astronauts. The Beta fabric was woven in South Carolina textile plants. Above: the Buckminster Fuller-designed cube under construction.

January 1971 27 -Photos by Ed Henderson mont panorama." When the outer traveler will soon forget. level of the sprawling Expo center. geodesic structure is completed and One flight down are historically A colorful overhead monorail this level is opened to the public, oriented displays featuring the zigzags across the ceiling and carries the entire park will take on an ex- people of South Carolina. A five­ samples of products manufactm;ed citing new dimension. No roof will minute film on the historical con­ in South Carolina. Surgical gloves, caver the top story save the alu- tributions of South Carolinians is soft drinks, rolls of carpet, bolts of minum and plexiglass web almost intended as an introduction to cloth, yarn and thread and wrap­ 100 feet overhead. From the bal- more contemporary exhibits on the ping materials are reflected in­ cony-type railings, the only "walls" remainder of the floor. The ex­ finitely as they clatter past a dra­ enclosing the floor, the visitor will tensive collections of artifacts and matic double wall of mirrors. Simu­ command an unobstructed view of photographs will be unveiled upon lated closed-circuit television the giant "greenhouse" vaulted over completion of the building. From screens allow the visitor to watch his head as well as a bird's-eye view one of the balconies on the fourth plant procedures as he becomes of the lower levels beneath him. It level the visitor can peer down onto engulfed with the sights and sounds promises to be an experience no the industrial exhibits on the third of industry. From the days of farm

28 Sand lapper Textile and other industrial products made in South Carolina are displayed on an overhead monorail, and industrial plants and processes are viewed by way of simulated closed-circuit television screens. tools to the age of the computer, visitor leaves by way of the under­ proud of you." Perhaps the most the labor and industry of South ground tunnel through which he seasoned visitor was Gerald Garrett Carolinians is depicted. entered. The subterranean passage­ who commented, "I have been The visitor finds his last stopping way-with much the same effect of there five times. It seems to get place in the pavilion on level two. a "time tunnel"-deposits the better every time I see you ... I Here he discovers an entire floor visitor outside the futuristic cube. hope to come back soon." Such devoted to glimpses of the future. He is then free to visit the nearby appreciation proves that the A thought-provoking audio-visual concession stand and gift shop, ex­ arduous work of those connected presentation on the challenge of plore the wooded hillside or take a with the Piedmont Expo Park has tomorrow is designed to whet the ride on the train-like tram which not been wasted. appetite of the curious visitor. makes shuttle runs to the parking One suggestion for the park's Voices of Carolinians express con­ lot. Many families have made return permanent use is that it become an cern over problems of ecology, pol- visits in order to take advantage of exhibition center of science and 1u tio n, technology-common to all the attractions in the park. industry. Such a center would fea­ South Carolina as to the rest of the Special summer weekend events on ture the latest in technological world-and discuss viable solutions. the grounds ran the gamut from developments in areas of industry, Displays treat South Carolina's con­ barbershop quartets to the ascen­ communications, space, chemistry tributions to future developments sion of a hot air balloon. and physics. It would also tell the and the role of the state in en­ In its four months of operation story of the continuing fight to co ur aging innovative research. in 1970 the park had over 61,000 preserve an ecological equilibrium Temporary exhibits on ocean­ visitors. While a few went away in the state and nation. This type of ography, the Apollo program and disappointed with the pavilion's attraction would draw hundreds of even a genuine moon rock aug­ incompleteness, others praised its thousands of visitors each year and mented the permanent displays beginnings and look forward to its would bring considerable revenue during the busy summer months of eventual success. Particularly heart­ to the state. At the time of writing 1970. Children took delight in the w arming have been the candid this article, the suggestion was made bright red model of a futuristic car; thank-you letters from school chil­ that the operation of such a center adults found the display of Dr. dren whose classes toured the park be handled by a non-governmental Charles H. Townes' original maser in the fall of 1970. One young girl agency to which the State would beam apparatus more interesting. wrote, "I thank you for a nice time, lease facilities. It is also expected All were fascinated by the mystery and the people who helped to make that this park will play a large part and challenge of the future. this possible for our state," and a in telling the story of the future to Returning to ground level, the generous lad boasted, "We are the many visitors expected in South Carolina during the United States' bicentennial year of 1976. Regardless of its eventual use, the park will surely be a facility which will enhance the educational and recreational opportunities of the state. Begun simply as one of three tricentennial exposition parks, the Piedmont Park has un­ limited potential for the people of South Carolina. Indeed, the city of Greenville has a sleeping giant in its midst.

Nancy Vance Ashmore, formerly a coordinator for the South Carolina Tricentennial Commission, is now special projects coordinator at Sandlapper Press, Inc.

29 Green vi lie in Chiaroscuro By Nike Middleton

reenville's sister city to the with dining out occurred when one fruit into a small white enamel south, Charleston, has a night of the live lobsters at The Pier machine, extracting the nectar in Glife not unlike New Orleans­ momentarily caught one of the brimming glasses. back room gambling, artfully busboys. Greenville takes its vict- 0 n e morning, disaster struck. concealed slot machines, striptease ualing seriously, though. Superb Alfred had just arrived with his dancers, Sunday bootleggers and steaks of every cut are served in its breakfast altar when one of the piano bars dispensing such incred­ restaurants. One place serves oys- wheels caught on the doorjamb. It ible drinks as the Ankle Breaker, ters in all seasons by the simple- was an instant debacle. On the made of-get this-155-proof but-surprising expedient of keeping poinsettia-patterned carpet cream purple-label rum and cherry them alive on a cornmeal diet. ran prematurely into scalding brandy. Greenville permits no such Oysters are a sneaky bunch and it coffee into snowy napery into red­ hanky-panky. was months before we could catch eye gravy into melted butter. Grits Charleston, tolerantly laughing at them at their dinner. In the and scrambled eggs were tossed herself, pounces on typographical Farmers' Market cakes rich with indiscriminately about. Maple syrup errors in her paper, gleefully rerun­ country butter, cream and eggs, and dripped delicately down the leg of ning items for the amusements of lush with fudge or caramel cream the table. We could have wished anyone who might have missed the icing are baked in antique molds. ourselves dead for Alfred's sake. chuckle. One such item was, In earlier times the Poinsett Needless to say, such style, such "Thanks to the kind-hearted people Hotel was an elegant bourse, a pride in work, has long vanished. of Charleston, the young man is on gathering place for Southern cotton Greenville is now a crossroads of a his way to a new tart tonight." The brokers. In the dining room girls in new world. Sooner or later every Greenville papers, clinging fiercely organdy caps and gingham gowns man's caravan comes to rest here. to such Victorianisms as "Troth passed bowls of steaming spoon The city has seen Mendel Rivers, Told," would not admit a slip-even bread and muffineers filled with with the silver mane and voice; Bob such a blockbuster as "The assig­ biscuits and popovers. During those Scott, gallant general and author of nations for the parade have not yet days there was one Alfred, a waiter "God Is My Copilot"; Louis Arm­ been made." to whom his calling was one of strong, the immortal "Satchmo"; Greenville radio is divided among sacred ritual. He brought up break- Victor Borge, recalled for breaking sermons and sorrowing country­ fast on a linen-covered portable up the waitress who brought his western music, hog futures and table-how Alfred would have breakfast-one comedian who does snuff commercials. Only Bob Jones scorned today's plastic tray and not save his funnies for the paying University seems to know the dif­ paper napkin sopping with slopped- audience; and Johnny Long, or­ ference between Tchaikovsky, over tea-with a little Sterno stove chestra leader whose golden records Stokowski and Musorgski, and even to keep hot dishes hot. Then, include "A Shanty in Old Shanty this glorious fare is frequently inter­ scrubbed as if for surgery, wearing Town." rupted by such pep talks as "How immaculate white cotton gloves, he Of such star stuff is Greenville's to Be Happy Though a Pauper." would squeeze the orange juice guest list made, and its citizens, When that evening sun goes before our dazzled eyes. With the with the insouciance of the native down, there is little to do but eat. aplomb of a maitre d' opening a New Yorker, regard such colorful The greatest excitement connected bottle of Mumm's, he pressed the human smorgasbord as no more

30 Sand lap per than their due. To paraphrase tic gestures which could be inter­ embedded itself under the arm of a Queen Victoria, "We are not perted as "Scram!" man we know, and had to be cut awed." Royalty does not impress Green­ out by a doctor. Our friend was This endearing trait was best ville either. When those world disturbed because he was from a demonstrated by the arrival of celebrities, the British Duke of region where a sometimes-fatal then-presidential candidate Richard Bedford and his French-born disease, Rocky Mountain spotted Nixon. I'm not saying for a second Duchess were scheduled as guest fever, is carried by ticks. The doc­ that security was in any way lax, speakers before the Friends of the tor asked where he had gotten the but I did find myself suddenly Library, they were to be house tick, then, when told it was in riding in his parade. On my way to guests of textile magnate Arthur Greenville, relaxed and smiled. bank, my taxi driver and I were McGill. Several hours before the '' Oh, that's all right then. A suddenly swept up in the proces­ Duke and his vivacious Duchess Greenville tick would never bother sion-close enough to say, "Hello, were to apear, it began to look like anyone." Dicky," which I did, not knowing no-show-there had been no word Greenville in chiaroscuro-there's when I would ever have such a from Their Graces. Dauntless, a lot more light than shadow. chance to address a possible presi­ McGill got on the phone, traced dent. Dicky looked undertandably them to Atlanta, and suggested that startled, doubtless wondering what they get cracking. They did. Far Nike Middleton, a former Green­ powerful influence had brought me from being awed by such blue ville resident, now lives in Roanoke, alongside his car. blood, McGill outshone the royal Virginia. This was just the beginning; a pair at the press reception by pretty, 16-year-old blonde of our appearing in a magnificent, crushed­ acquaintance burst through the grape velvet robe. surging sidewalk crowd, ran up to Even Greenville's animalcula dis­ the car and caught Mr. Nixon's play a comradely spirit. A tick hand in a welcoming clasp. The only difficulty was that her brand­ new leather jacket got caught on the car door, forcing her to trot briskly alongside. Mr. Nixon gal­ lantly continued to hold her friendly little paw, and Greenville beamed at this heart-warming sight. The Secret Service agents, however, ,ttJ,., ·· ... were not amused. They made fran- .,. J ~'

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January 1971 31 By Beth Ann Klosky

Founded by the late Charles E. Daniels in 1934, the company is now the n~tion's second la~ge~t contractor 111111. 1n the general building category. 11111.1111.111 111r11, n the years immediately follow­ they could get, and Charlie Daniel ing World War II South Caro­ was never one to sit idly by. He Ilina's economy, until then de­ envisioned a special kind of super­ pendent primarily upon agriculture, salesmanship that could effectively began to reflect the growing mi­ persuade Northern industrialists to gration of Northern industry to the pull up stakes and move southward. South. These were the years when His chief selling point was a unique more and more industry which had service offered by the Daniel com­ traditionally been confined to the pany. All an industrialist need do North was being lured southward, was order his plant, specifying what enticed by the moderate climate, he wanted. Daniel would take over abundant natural resources, favor­ from there, acquire land in the best ab le tax picture and plentiful location at a reasonable price, build supply of laborers made available and equip the new plant better, by the .rmechanization of farming. cheaper and faster than anyone In Greenville, Charles E. Daniel, else. It was the sort of complete farsighted owner of Daniel Con­ package "turn-key" deal that struction Co., ( organized in 1934 Daniel felt would bring results. And with a capital of $25,000 in bor­ he was right. As South Carolina's Above: The founder of rowed money, and achieving an super-salesman and super-con­ Daniel Construction Co., the late Charles E. Daniel. Right: Symbol annual volume of more than $1 tractor, he built more industrial of the "New South" and proof of Daniel's million by 1938) realized that plants in the Southeast during post­ success, the glistening 25-story Daniel South Carolina was standing on the war years than any other con­ Building in Greenville. threshold of a new era of prog­ tractor, and more in his home state ress-one that could double, triple, than all other builders combined. South Carolina-many of them even quadruple the state's economy The first of Daniel's typical func­ miles from a town or even a stop­ within a few years through the tional, windowless, air-conditioned light. Daniel liked to think he was securing of new and diversified textile plants went up in 1943. In creating in South Carolina a pasture industry. the next 10 years the company for contented industrialists, but If South Carolina was to take full built approximately $300 million what pleased him more was the advantage of industry's migration worth of new industrial plants. realization that he was creating 400 South, however, there was no time These ultramodern plants cropped to 1,000 jobs with every new to be wasted. State and county up in meadows and abandoned industry he brought to the state. governments needed all the help cotton fields all over Piedmont Before his death in 1964 the

32 Sand lapper -Photo by Steve Robertson, Honorable

January 1971 33 founder of Daniel Construction Co. struction Co. and its subsidiaries Pamplona, Spain and the United had chalked up an impressive score: continue to follow in the footsteps Kingdom (London, England and 250 major industrial plants in of the founder, directed by the late Ayrshire, Scotland). San Juan, South Carolina, 400 plants in all Mr. Daniel's brother R. Hugh Puerto Rico is headquarters of the the 12 Southern states in which the Daniel, chairman of the board and Caribbean Division which was re­ company was operating, some treasurer, his long-time right arm cently extended into the Bahamas. 150,000 new industrial jobs and Buck Mickel, president, and C.W. In 1969 Daniel Construction Co. twice that many supporting and Cox, vice-president and general went public, the first public offer­ supply jobs, and around $2 billion manager. Charlie Daniel's philos­ ing of company stock being made in actual plant construction-with ophy and principles are still the in March of that year. 104 new projects underway totaling heart of the company, but times Daniel's industrial projects are $271 million. In that year the com­ and conditions have changed. The still the principal source of revenue. pany was involved in building 54 greatly expanded company has It is building new plants at a rapid new industrial plants including a undergone many innovations and is clip and expanding existing facil­ $30 million nylon plant, a $14 mil­ using fresh approaches. Riding the ities for paper and textile manu­ lion tissue mill and "the most crest of the tide in a rapidly chang­ facturers, chemical companies and modern textile mill in the world." ing world it is setting new and food processors. A large part of this Daniel had brought to South Caro­ broader goals and is continuing to work is for customers previously lina two of the biggest wool pro­ set new records. Its slogan is still served by Daniel. The names of its cessors in the world. Getting these the same: Daniel builds cheaper, clients read like a roll call of major first commercial wool scouring and better and faster. industries: J.P. Stevens; Deering­ combing plants to the state was Listed sixth on the list of the Milliken; Celanese; Fiber Industries; contingent upon Charleston's being nation's 400 largest contractors, it Bystron; Chemstrand; Dan River; made a port of entry for wool, a is now the second largest contractor Burlington; Owens-Corning Fiber­ project in which Daniel took a lead­ in the nation in the general building glas; Dow-Badische; Monsanto; ing part. The port development and category. And at a time when many Kimberly-Clark; General Electric; the new processing plants became analysts are pessimistic about non­ Allis-Chalmers; Union Carbide; the nucleus of an integrated wool residential construction, Daniel is Bowater; Philip Morris; Campbell industry in the South. bucking every trend. It began the Soups; Eastman; American Enka, The story of Charles E. Daniel, fiscal year 1970 with a record­ and many others. often referred to during his lifetime breaking backlog of projects, went The company has recently be­ as a "one-man magnet for new on to secure a whopping number of come involved in the public power industry" and "an inspired super­ new contracts, and ended the year (both steam and nuclear) and phar­ salesman who went far beyond self­ showing a substantial increase in maceutical fields. It is currently interest to work for the best earnings over those of the past year. building four power projects, in­ interests of South Carolina," is now In earlier years the company cluding the first major nuclear plant legendary. The glistening white constructed mainly textile, paper, for Alabama Power Co., a sub­ Daniel Building, a magnificent metals, chemical, and synthetic sidiary of Southern Co. The initial 25-story, all-electric-serviced struc­ fiber plants-the first industries to contract entails a minimum of $150 ture in the heart of downtown come to the "New South." Today million in volume, the largest Greenville that houses the com­ it is also involved in commercial single-phase contract Daniel has pany's executive headquarters, is a and institutional fields. Although ever received. It is also building a fitting memorial to the man who its business is still centered pri­ plant for South Carolina Electric & did more than any other to bring marily in the southern sector of the Gas in Bushy Park near Charleston, about the industrialization of South United States, its operations extend and two plants for Duke Power in Carolina and the Southeast. The into approximately 20 states, North Carolina. handsome skyscraper, soaring above Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom For prestige and economic the Greenville skyline as if pointing and Europe. Domestic division of­ reasons the company has recently the way to horizons of future prog­ fices are located in Greenville, been concentrating its efforts on ress, is typical of Daniel ingenuity. South Carolina; Birmingham, Ala­ upgrading the South's industrial Floor slabs of concrete with rein­ bama; Richmond, Virginia; Jack­ position by promoting establish­ forcing wire mesh are interlocked son ville, Florida; Greensboro, ment of research centers and cor­ with the steel frame act as one North Carolina; Lexington, Ken­ porate headquarters in the region. material. The daring and unique tucky; and Little Rock, Arkansas, The outlook is encouraging. Daniel composite design serves to provide with sales offices in New York and completed its last building for more office space at considerably Chicago. Division offices of Daniel Deering-Milliken Research Center in reduced cost. International, established in 1964, Spartanburg three years ago. It has Today the far-flung Daniel Con- are located in Brussels, Belgium; also built Phillips Fibers Head-

34 Sandlapper ited construction plant and equipment plier of propane-air standby and maintenance. The request of Amer­ systems. It is also a large distributor 1an, ican clients for assistance in con­ of industrial boilers and extends the struction management prompted into certain areas of air and stream re- the company to open an inter­ pollution control. Applied Engi­ ms. national operation, and its "faster, neering is planning a substantial Co. better and at less cost" building expansion, and in the future Daniel fer­ philosophy that has overcome will acquire additional manu­ :1.de time-worn standards and delays due facturing and service companies to to contracting procedures was complement Applied Engineering's are intoduced in Europe and the Carib­ base. ue. bean. With a nucleus of supervisory Since 1961 a total of 10 Daniel­ Jid personnel from its United States built plants have received the an­ :il­ affiliates Daniel International has nual Award of Excellence presented lU­ developed a cadre of local project to the top 10 manufacturing plants nd managers, engineers, purchasing of the year by "Modern Manu­ 1is agents, expeditors, cost account­ facturing" magazine. The award is a .ly Daniel construction workers fashion ants, superintendents, foremen and distinct national honor, for more .ts a maze of steel reinforcing rods for the foundation of the 300-foot craftsmen. The international sub­ than 1,500 plants are nominated :>r stack to be built at SCE&G's Arthur M. sidiary has been the major con­ each year. Five of the Daniel-built g­ Williams Station near Charleston. tractor on projects totaling over "Top 10" plants are in South Caro­ s· $200 million annually for United lina, three in North Carolina, one in r·' ' quarters and Research Center m States firms and European clients. Alabama, and one in Virginia. r- Greenville; Collins & Aikman in Because of its close relationship Through its expert management J" ,.' Charlotte; and Beaunit Research with customers, Daniel has a bur­ staff made up of a growing number ,, Center at Triangle Research Park geoning maintenance contract of experienced and aggressive men ..., near Raleigh. Currently it is build­ business encompassing electricians, who are tops in their fields, its .1 ing a $10 million corporate head­ millwrights and other skilled proven ability to build better, faster ., quarters and laboratory complex workers who can dismantle, move and cheaper, its outstanding for Burroughs-Wellcome at the and erect the machinery of a com­ customer service and, above all, its North Carolina Triangle Research plete manufacturing facility. It foresight and flexibility, Daniel Park. plans to expand its maintenance Construction continues to make In the commercial field Daniel is services eventually to encompass history. To date it has not exper­ constructing apartment complexes, total plant maintenance. ienced slowdowns in either con­ office buildings, shopping centers, Another prime growth move­ struction work or new awards-the banks, hotels and motels, thus con­ ment of the mother company in inflationary economy notwith­ stantly changing the silhouettes of 1964 was the establishment of standing-and it looks to the future many cities. It is building hospitals Daniel Realty Co. in Birmingham, with optimism. At an analysts' and educational institutions; the Alabama. This Daniel subsidiary meeting in Atlanta recently the new Furman University campus is owns and operates office buildings company announced that 1970 one example. Daniel's policy of in Richmond, Greensboro and earning would probably be about 20 hiring local persons to work under Birmingham; a 67-acre shopping per cent higher than that of 1969. the project manager and field super­ center in Montgomery, Alabama; a And so Daniel forges ahead. In intendent earns the company the retirement complex in Richmond; the present as in the past it is one enthusiastic support of commun­ and plans to construct a 225-unit of South Carolina's greatest in­ ities, as does its cooperation with motor hotel, a 200-unit apartment fluences for securing new industry, various agencies to train and em­ building and a 550-car parking and Charlie Daniel's dream of build­ ploy the unemployed and the garage in Birmingham. Long-range ing a more affluent South is being underemployed. Training plus up­ plans call for continued expansion realized. Today through the to-date methods and equipment of the company's real estate hold­ broadening scope of its operations have yielded the company an ex­ ings. the Daniel Construction Co. is also ceptional national safety record. Potential sales and earnings got working to help build a better One of Daniel's most unusual another boost in early 1970 when world. features is its broad line of con­ the Daniel company acquired Ap­ struction management services such plied Engineering Co. of Orange­ Beth Ann Klosky, of Anderson, is as site selection (including tax, burg, an international designer and author of "Old Pendleton District," wage and labor data), plant design, manufacturer of factory assembled soon to be published of Sandlapper equipment installation and post- process plants and a leading sup- Press, Inc.

January 1971 35 f the many fine arts activities which take place at Bob Jones 0University, few events elicit as much excitement and enthusiasm among students, faculty and regular concert-goers as the productions of They All Are Familiar the school's opera association. Na­ tionally recognized for its high pro­ at Bob Jones University fessional standards and lavish stage settings, the group has been produc­ ing opera at BJU for over 28 years. A survey of the works presented by By Charles F. Koelsch the association includes operas of the standard repertoire in addition to a number of compositions which are rarely performed in this coun­ try. Interest in the presentations is heightened by the appearance of outstanding guests from the Metro­ politan and other national com-

36 Sandlapper Gaetano Donizetti's works have been well represented at Bob Jones University, with productions of "Lucia di Lammermoor" (left), "The Elixir of Love" and "Don Pasquale."

former location in Cleveland, Enrico Caruso's last appearance Tennessee, initiated a tradition of with the Metropolitan in 1920. In opera unbroken except for the year the Bob Jones' revival, which was 194 7 when the university moved to the subject of an article in "Opera Greenville, South Carolina. News," tenor Eddy Ruhl sang the The years that have followed difficult role of Eleazar; soprano have seen a great variety of operatic Brenda Lewis performed as Rachel; productions staged by the associa­ Chester Watson, bass, was Cardinal tion. Works of the standard reper­ Brogny; and James Wainner, tenor, toire have, of course, been the most appeared as Prince Leopold. often presented. Leading the list, Presenting operas of such an un­ appropriately enough, is "Faust," usual nature creates the problem of having been staged five times. The finding singers who have the roles music of Giuseppe Verdi has pro­ in their repertoire. As a result, vided the group with the largest many of the works which lie out­ number of works by a single side the standard repertory are composer-four of his operas have produced entirely with a cast of found a place on the Bob Jones faculty and student singers. Such an stage, with a fifth scheduled for this arrangement provides audiences year. "Il Trovatore" ranks second with live performances of compo­ in number of revivals along with sitions which they might never Rossini's "The Barber of Seville." experience otherwise. It also gives Each has been staged four times. the faculty and students a chance Other Verdi works produced at to expand their musical horizons. BJU include "Aida," "Rigoletto" Among the unusual productions and "Ernani." Each has received staged by the group have been "The three stagings. Gaetano Donizetti has Merry Wives of Windsor" by Otto been well represented with produc­ Nicolai, · "Abu Hassan" by Karl tions of "Lucia di Lammermoor," Maria von Weber, "The Bohemian "The Elixir of Love" and "Don Girl" by Michael Balfe, Puccini's Pasquale." Two of Puccini's operas, "Gianni Schicchi" and Donizetti's panies in major roles. "Tosca" and "Gianni Schicchi," "Don Pasquale." A leading center for the training have been produced three times The excitement of grand opera at of Christian young people in the each. Vincenzo Bellini's "Norma," a Bob Jones University lles m the various liberal arts fields, Bob Jones formidable work for any company, music, in the stage settings, the University places strong emphasis has been presented twice by the costumes and the action. Contrib­ upon the value of cultural develop­ Bob Jones group. Another work uting to the air of expectancy ment and refinement in the lives of receiving two productions has been which surrounds these productions its students. It seems natural, there­ "Samson et Dalila" by Camille is the appearance of guest artists in fore, that opera should flourish in Saint-Saens. many of the major roles. Through such an atmosphere. It has been gratifying to per­ the years famous singers from the In 1942 the Bob Jones Univer­ formers and audiences alike to stage Metropolitan Opera, the New York sity Opera Association came into operas which are rarely done in the City Opera, the San Francisco being, and in May of that year the United States. Many such works Opera and numerous other Amer­ group presented its first produc­ contain a great deal of beautiful ican companies, as well as per­ tion, Gounod's "Faust." Major music in addition to opportunities formers from European opera roles were performed by stars of for magnificent stage settings. Per­ ho uses, have enhanced the BJU the Metropolitan Opera-John haps the most interesting example operas with their talents. The five Dudley as Faust, Hilda Burke as is found in the 1963 production of productions of "Faust," alone, have Marguerite, Helen Olheim as "La Juive" by Jacques Halevy. brought an impressive array of Martha, and Norman Cordon as Absent from the stage since the San voices to the stage. In 1946 the cast Mephistopheles. That performance, Francisco presentation of 1936, was headed by Dorothy Sarnoff, which took place at the school's '' La Juive" was the vehicle for Eugene Conley and Nicola Mos-

January 19 71 37 Right: Pharoah gives Radames command of the armies of Egypt. Elinor Ross appeared in the title role of Aida in this 1962 production. Below: Artist~ from the Metropol!tan O~,era sa~.g the leading roles in the 1942 production of Faust : (I. tor.) John Dudley as Faust, Hilda Burke as Marguerite, Helen Olheim as Martha, and Norman Cordon as Mephistopheles. cona. The 1950 production saw and talented students who spend members of the speech department, Charles Kullman as Faust, Jarmila many hours preparing the scores for notably Miss Eva Carrier who has N ovotna as Marguerite, Lorenzo Al­ performance. Playing for opera is a been directing opera at Bob Jones vary as Mephistopheles, Doris Doe difficult task and requires musicians for over 15 years. The hallmark of as Martha, and Martial Singher as who are able to be flexible and her productions is scrupulous at­ Valentine. Another outstanding adjust to the stage situation. The tention to every detail of the drama cast appeared in the 1948 revival of university has been fortunate to with full regard for the musical "Il Trovatore" with Brian Sullivan have capable conductors through demands made upon the per­ as Manrico, Astrid Varnay as the years. For more than a decade formers. Leonora, Ebe Stignani as Azucena, Dr. Dwight Gustafson, dean of the A major factor in the success of and Giuseppe Valdengo as Count di school of fine arts at BJU, has di­ the opera association's productions Luna. Also in 1948, the association rected most of the operatic per­ is the university's modern Rode­ staged "Aida" with a cast that formances from the podium. A man heaver Auditorium. Unusual and included Ella Flesch in the title of great versatility, Dr. Gustafson impressive stage settings are made role, Marjorie Lawrence as Amneris has also designed a number of the possible by the revolving stage and (the entire role sung sitting down, sets for various productions. Oc­ its two screw-operated lifts which since Miss Lawrence had recently casionally, he trades his baton for can be raised to a height of 12 feet returned to the stage after being the role of a bass soloist. Then or lowered completely into the struck by polio), Alexander Sved as Frank Garlock, head of the music basement. Two smaller turntables, Radames, Ramon Vinay as division's theory department, one of which can be raised or low­ Amonasro, and George London as assumes command in the pit. Both ered, are also available. Other fea­ Ramfis. A number of artists have men have successfully demon­ tures include two electrically oper­ particularly endeared themselves to strated their ability to achieve ated contour curtains and numer­ BJU opera audiences and have re­ cohesive, well-rounded perfor­ ous drops and travelers. The audi­ turned several times to achieve new mances which convey the excite­ torium is equipped with the most triumphs. One such singer is the ment and drama of the work at modern lighting and sound system celebrated French baritone Martial hand. in the South, making possible an Singher who performed in "Faust," There are differing opm10ns infinite number of special effects. A "Tosca" and "Samson et Dalila." about the value of opera as drama. large forestage, which doubles as an Soprano Irene Jordan has appeared To many, the medium is little more orchestra pit, can be lowered from in "Il Trovatore," "Norma" and than a vehicle for the display of stage level to the basement. The "Ernani." Lili Chookasian, Metro­ vocal prowess. In the BJU produc­ wings are spacious enough to allow politan Opera mezzo-soprano, sang tions every effort is made to project a complete scene to be set up off­ Adalgisa in "Norma" just before the dramatic situation of each work stage and rolled into place, greatly her debut at the Met in 1961. The and to intensify the impact of the following year she returned to music through the intelligent use of Greenville to perform Amneris in stage action. Members of the the Bob Jones' "Aida," and in 1969 chorus-students, faculty and staff she appeared as Azucena in "Il personnel-are assigned individual Trovatore." Morley Meredith, Met character types whose image they baritone, has favored the BJU stage are responsible to maintain in the with his Don Carlos in "Ernani" performance. Each person on the ( 196 6) and Scarpia in "Tosca" stage is taught to react in character (1970). to the immediate situation, and all Of course, opera is more than are given specific bits of "stage just the singers-a well-disciplined business" which add to the total orchestra under the leadership of a picture. Stage direction of opera is competent conductor is essential. a task demanding infinite patience The Bob Jones University orchestra and an inexhaustible imagination. is composed of faculty members This assignment is handled by

38 Sandlapper reducing the time consumed in set the makeup crew spend long hours ture Metropolitan Opera baritone changes. All sets and stage prop­ giving each person the features that William Walker in the title role; so­ erties, which are designed by go with his particular character, prano Klara Barlow will perform as members of the art department, are even down to the last walk-on. the wicked Abigail; Eugenio constructed in large scenery shops Beards, and sometimes noses, are Fernandi, tenor, will appear as in the basement of the auditorium. custom-made, and the large assort­ Ismaele; and Russian basso Dmitri In addition to the colorful sets, ment of wigs assures each per­ Nabokov will sing the role of the the beauty of the productions is former just the right hairpiece. Hebrew high priest, Zaccaria. On enhanced by the brilliant costumes Talented performers, effective May 28 and June 1, as part of the from the vast collections in the staging and superb facilities have annual Commencement Concert, costume room. The majority of the combined to make the productions the association will present Gian­ garments are made on the campus of the Bob Jones University Opera Carlo Menotti's space opera, "Help! by faculty and student workers Association eminently professional Help! The Blobolinks!" This de­ who must meet not only the de­ and a delight to the ear and eye lightful comedy will be performed mands of the opera association, but alike. The benefit of over a quarter by a cast of faculty members and also those of the Classic Players and of a century of experience cannot students. Both productions promise Unusual Films. A tour of the cos­ be discounted in the success of to be rewarding experiences for the tume facilities reveals clothing rang­ these presentations. During the performers and the audiences. Let ing from Biblical costumes to fairy present school year, opera-lovers this article serve as an invitation to tale regalia. The university has one can look forward to two new pro­ residents of the Palmetto State to of the largest noncommercial ward­ ductions, neither of which has been discover the world of opera as r ob es of operatic and Shake­ previously staged by the associa­ presented by the Bob Jones Uni­ spearean costumes to be found in tion. On March 25 and 27, Verdi's versity Opera Association. America. "Nabuccodonosor" will be given its Finishing touches are added by first performances in the Greenville Charles F. Koelsch is a member of the makeup department. Not con­ area. This beautiful work, which the voice faculty at Bob Jones Uni­ tent to send people onto the stage deals with the reign of the -Babylon­ versity and music director of WMUU­ with a simple base, the members of ian king Nebuchadnezzar, will fea- AM and WMUU-FM.

January 1971 39 3ooYEARS OF CAROLINA COOKING

By Jean H. Hunt

he origins of Carolina cooking stem from a variety of sources­ Tfrom the first French Huguenot, English, Swiss and Dutch settlers in the Charleston area to the Scotch­ Irish, Germans and Yankees in the Up Country. There was also the subtle African influence. All con­ tributed to variations and refine­ ments of "Southern" recipes. Now, 300 years later, the Junior League of Greenville, Inc., has gathered a delectable cross section of Carolina cuisine. Over 1,300 recipes were tested; of these 650 were chosen for an attractive hard­ back which has the look of a hand­ some antique volume. DUCKS IN ORANGE SAUCE "300 Years of Carolina Cooking" 4 ducks 1 onion includes recipes ranging from every­ 2 stalks celery day family favorites to dishes for 2 oranges the gourmet. A special section is 1/2 tsp. salt per duck devoted to game of the Carolinas, 1/8 tsp. pepper per duck designed so that even the novice 1 cup flour can prepare tempting fowl and 6 cups bacon grease 1 apple, peeled and chopped game recipes. 1 tsp. salt A traditional game dinner of 1/4 tsp. pepper duck and dove provides as elegant a 2 tbsp. bacon grease winter's entertainment today as it 1 6-oz. can frozen orange juice, thawed did 300 years ago, as the accom­ 1/4 cup water panying menu suggests. (Continued on page 42)

40 Sand lapper A traditional dinner of ducks in orange sauce is depicted against a backdrop GAME DINNER of the Rock House, an early Carolina residence now the ARTICHOKE HEARTS AND HEARTS OF PALM VINAIGRETTE home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Haynsworth 111 . ROASTED DOVE DUCKS IN ORANGE SAUCE* WILD RICE ANGEL BISCUITS FRESH APPLE CAKE* or CHEESE AND FRUIT WINE/COFFEE

January 1971 41 VVe're doing an unheard of thing: VVe'II sell you a place in the mountains which will become The day before, wash ducks in the smartest investment cold water, dry and refrigerate. you ever made, Chop onion and celery coarsely. give you Add peeled and sliced oranges. Re­ frigerate. $1000 worth of furniture Three hours before serving, sprinkle outside of each duck with for the house, salt and pepper. Shake in bag with and not tack on one cent flour. Brown in bacon grease. Drain and cool. Stuff with onion, celery in hidden costs. and orange combined with apple, salt and pepper. Heat oven to 275 Everybody who has land to sell courses, fishing, and all sorts of degrees. Place 2 tablespoons bacon these days is giving away free entertainment are minutes away. grease in roaster. Arrange ducks in stuff. Like those free weekends Plus, a complete clubhouse, roaster. Combine orange juice with designed to woo you into buying. year-round swimming pool, tennis water. Pour over ducks. Cover and But what usually happens is this: courts, and ice skating are right The poor guy who does buy land in Mill Ridge. bake three hours or until done. ends up paying 20 to 25% more All this and you can make a Remove ducks whole with stuffing for his land in order to pay for little money, too. still inside and pour gravy over all those free weekends the Use your house any time of them. freeloaders took. the year you like. And during any Not us. Which is why our deal in-between times, let us rent it FRESH APPLE CAKE 1 is practically unheard of. out for you. In this way, your tax 2 /2 cups flour You only get the free things shelter-along with your equity 2 cups sugar when you buy a place at Mill build-up and the income you 1 tsp. cinnamon Ridge. We can afford to give receive from rentals- reduces 2 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt. away $1 000 worth of free the total net cost to you to 4 eggs furniture or $900 in ski equipment approximately $300 a year. l1/2 cups cooking oil or a trip to Europe for two, to This makes your house at Mill 1 tsp. vanilla everybody who buys because Ridge a smart investment. 1 cup chopped pecans we don't waste a lot of money in Don't write us for flashy 3 cups chopped raw apples impressive promotions and fancy brochures. And don't expect any Mix all dry ingredients. Add eggs. cocktail parties. So you actually glamorous invitations from us. get something free without Just drive up and look around. Slowly pour in cooking oil, beating paying for it. Or call us at 704/963-5300. constantly. Add vanilla. Fold in And wait'II you see Mill Ridge. We'll be happy to explain in detail apples and pecans. Bake in oven in Houses with rustic atmosphere how you really can get something a greased tube pan for one hour at and every modern convenience. for nothing. 350 degrees. Located beneath shade and along • • rolling terrain off Highway 105 Mill Ridge Developers,Jnc. "300 Years of Carolina Cooking" near Banner Elk N. C. In the . . . ' . . A house m the mountams for people who is available from the Sandlapper middle of the best ski areas 1n want to make money, not spend it. the Southeast. Championship golf · Bookstore or can be ordered by mailing a check or money order I - -1 payable to "300 Years of Carolina I I'm interested in a smart investment. Send me more information. I Cooking" for $4.50 (plus 50 cents I for postage and handling, and 18 cents sales tax for S.C. residents) to P.O. Box 8703, Station A, Green­ Add ress------ville, South Carolina 29604. Pro­ City ______Sta te _____Zip ____ _ ceeds from the book will be used for area charities and projects.

Mail to Mill Ridge Developers, Inc., Box 171 , Banner Elk, N. C. 28604. Telephone 704 / 963-5300 ------·I Jean H. Hunt is from Greenville. 42 Sand lap per RECALLING THE OLD DAYS at Jack Daniel's brings to mind the time the new tax man discovered Tennessee whiskey.

In his first day with us, the new tax man had seen some Jack Daniel's being made. So, of course, he expected it. to be barreled the next day. When it wasn't, he was confused. You see, he didn't know about the extra step we take that other distillers don't. CHARCOAL That's charcoal mellowing, a MELLOWED time-consuming process that 6 smooths our whiskey through ten feet of charcoal DROP before it's barreled. When he understood this, he 6 realized what sets Tennessee whiskey apart from BY DROP all others. Just a sip of Jack Daniel's, we believe, and you'll make the same pleasant discovery.

Q 1968, Jack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow, Prop., Inc. TENNESSEE WHISKEY • 90 PROOF BY CHOICE • DISTILLED AND BOTTLED BY JACK DANIEL DISTILLERY • LYNCHBURG (POP. 384), TENN . GREENVILLE A Progressive City Looks to the Future

a photographic essay featuring some of the winners of Sandlapper's Greenville Photo Contest

Charlie Thomson

Honorable Mention

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Architecture is traditional, nostalgic, cosmopolitan and avant-garde.

f"" " Florsheir

' \u . .,; shoe

Tim Scott, Honorable Mention

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Jo Lt , I a Z!Jd ll)JnOcJ '110:is W!.l Textile plants manufacturing fabrics, garments and machinery have been a stimulus to the economic development of the county.

Honorable Mention

Sand lap per 48 SUO!lUa1111 a1qeJOUOH Jan Dreskin, Third Prize 50 Sand lap per Bill Morgan Sixth Prize In its focus on the present and ambitious : .. , plans for the future, Greenville has not turned its back on the past.

Jan Dreskin Honorable Mention

January 1971 51 Ja, Jan Oreskin, First Prize

H.D. Porter, Second Prize

Constant attention to the needs of its youth assures that Greenville in future decades will continue to be known as the 'South's Point of Progress.'

January 1971 53 WASHINGTON PLACE GREENVILLE'S WALK OF THE TOWN

By CI ifford Hackett

group of Greenville, South Caro­ lina, merchants recently set out Ato prove that the discriminating shopper need not be confined to the bald parking lots, functional concrete buildings and fluorescent sunlight that typify today's util­ itarian shopping center. Deploring the trend towards "destructive progress" which demolishes digni­ fied old buildings and levels wooded lots, these innovators have carved a unique commercial district from an area once thought to be long past its prime. Five houses and a church in a three-block section of East Wash­ ington Street have been rescued from low-rent boarders or abandon­ ment and converted into delightful shops. In each house the architec­ ture of the past is brought up to date with modern design and decor.

The first of these shops to open One block away, at the corner of was Palmetto Galleries, at the cor­ Washington and Toy streets, can be n er of Washington and McBee found 1001, second of the shops to streets, owned and operated by make its appearance. Too large for Mrs. Dabney Barnes. The gift shop a family dwelling and obviously -Photos by Nathaniel Schell Jr. moved to its present location, limited by its period architecture, - known as Washington Place in the house had become shabby from Three rooms downstairs and one upstairs Greenville's early days, from an periods of desertion and neglect. serve as showrooms at Palmetto Gallery older East Washington Street The accessibility of the location (above), the first of the Washington Place shops. Right: Pappagallo, opened last address. Unusual gifts from all over appealed to the Lawrence N ach­ February, features shoes, sportswear, the world are featured in the shop's m ans and the Harry Anderson accessories and ladies' fashion apparel. four showrooms. Daweses, two young couples who

54 Sand lapper had long thought of opening a women's wear shop. The planning , and work which went into the restoration of the house and the landscaping of the grounds has "" resulted in an atmosphere like that of a comfortable old home. Guests I may sip coffee and relax while browsing through seven rooms of the latest fashions. I

Two of the Washington Street room in the months ahead. shops required major renovation Next door to Pappagallo is the and redesign. The first of these, home of William Key Interiors. Pappagallo, at 905 East Washing­ Another major renovation project, ton, had to be expanded to give this house was rebuilt to accom­ adequate floor space. Porches were modate eight display rooms, two enclosed and stairwells were wid­ offices, two receiving rooms and ened, modern heating and air con­ utility space. Grading the grounds ditioning were installed and the for parking areas, removing the steep lot was graded and landscaped large porch and adding a graceful to provide parking. The resulting double stairway were but a few of shop, product of the diligence of the tasks that went into the present the John Kramers and the James Georgian facade. Interior design Adamses, deals in shoes, sportswear was, of course, done by Key-as and accessories. Plans are underway was the interior of Pappagallo. This to open still another specialty shop utilizes homelike settings for

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Upper right: The Hext Perry house, built in the 1920s, now houses 1001, a boutique which carries the latest ladies' fashions. Right: The Georgian facade of William Key Interiors belies the major renovation which the structure underwent.

January 1971 Left: Pooh Corner, which specializes in children's clothing, books, records and toys, is housed in a remodeled structure built for a church sanctuary in 1927. Below: Washington East, formerly the Farnsworth home, was decorated to provide a virile setting for male fashions of the now generation.

ceilings, makes an impressive show­ and brown color scheme, exposed­ place; an L-shaped wing was added beam ceilings and accents of virile by owners Clifford and Barbara reds and blacks. Four display rooms Hackett to provide additional floor house fashions for the up-to-date space. Tree-shaded adjoining lots man of any age. were purchased to provide room for The East Washington Street area, expansion and parking facilities. once a place of fading grandeur William Key also designed this doomed to eventual demolition, interior_ now has a new lease on life. These While the ladies browse through shops are aiding in this reconstruc­ their favorite shops, gentlemen may tion by drawing attention to the find a haven at Washington East, area, and other homes are being across from Pappagallo. Featuring rebuilt and occupied. While much bold masculine fashions of the now work remains to be done, the East generation, this shop, operated by Washington Street area has already Al Hagood and Bill Mattison, pre­ attracted much attention. A stroll sents the latest in men's clothes in through Greenville's "walk of the surroundings which make the town" makes one aware of what shopper feel at home. Refurbishing can be done by other cities with of this old house included a beige downtown shopping problems. the antique and contemporary fur­ niture and accessories. Dining room, living room, den and bed­ room furniture are complemented by silver, glass, porcelain and paint­ ings in redesigned Georgian sur­ roundings of handsome mantels and fine molding and plaster work. Pooh Comer, 1012 East Wash­ ington St., boasts the district's most unusual background. Formerly a sanctuary of the Church of Christ, Scientist, the building now houses infants' and children's wear, toys, games, books and records. The octagonal central hall, with 15-foot

56 Sand lapper TEXTILE HALL Showplace for Industry and Art

n 1914 Atlanta and Charlotte Above: A ground-level view of recent expansions, is the largest in­ were competing to play host to a Textile Hall illustrates the center's dustrial exhibit center on the At- Itextile machinery and supply massive size. One aisle in the hall 1 antic coast. It features a show, sought since the tum of the is almost a quarter-mile long. Left: A portion of the 80-foot 444,000-square-foot exhibition century by Southern millmen ceramic tile mural depicting floor, parking for 3,500 autos and weary of traveling to an exposition the history of textiles in the hall's accommodations at the adjacent in Boston. Then the German armies main lobby. Right: A few of Greenville Downtown Airport for moved into Belgium. War fears the 748 exhibitions in the 300 company and charter aircraft. mushroomed. The would-be host 1970 Southern Textile Exposition­ International held last October. Managing this enormous center cities withdrew their bids, and the and the shows which are held there way was open for Greenville to the first Textile Hall. This building is the task of the Textile Hall launch the community effort which housed the biennial textile show Corporation, a nonprofit organi­ resulted in the first Southern Tex­ and also served as a civic audi­ zation which has no stockholders tile Exposition in 1915. torium until 1958. The last textile and whose unpaid directors hold This small regional show grew by show was held there in 1962, after the property in trust and operate it last October to an international which the old building and nine for the public welfare. event with 7 48 exhibitors from 37 annexes could not accommodate The hall was constructed in 1917 states and 11 foreign countries. The the growing numbers of exhibitors. with funds donated by many busi­ success of the 1915 show also In 1963 ground was broken for nesses and individuals that prompted construction in 1917 of the new Textile Hall which, with amounted to just less than $50,000.

January 1971 57 Prudent management by the board, information to high school seniors Association. made up of textile executives and in the area. The hall provides site The way of life changes for thou­ businessmen, has since kept the hall and staff support for the event sands of Greenvillians during textile operati.ng by making it pay its own which is cosponsored by the show time. Hundreds take October way. Never has a federal, state or chamber of commerce and the vacations to supplement the hall's local tax dollar been used for the Greenville County School District. staff or to work for the show's operation. The hall also offered its concrete service agencies, the hotels and Textile Hall is a building, a staff cavern for transformation by the motels and other businesses serving and an institution. Greenville Arts Festival into a the exhibitor personnel and mill The building is unique in its wonderland crammed with the visitors. flexibility. It has served as a textile work and performances of the cul­ The housing office, guided by showplace with machinery in mill­ tural organizations, schools and col- Mrs. Carolyn Lewis, buzzes with type operation, as an auditorium 1e g es which sponsor the event. activity as millmen seek rooms and seating 22,000 for a Billy Graham Liasion officer for the 1971 festival householders offer their facilities. Crusade and as home of the Green­ (May 6-9) is J. Robert Ellis. Nearly 100 interpreters and trans­ ville Arts Festival. When the civic leaders pondered lators capable in 15 languages stand The staff, augmented during the the recreational and tourist oppor­ by for a duty call from Mrs. Betty 1960s to supplement the textile tunities awaiting realization in the Kenig, head of the visitor service show's veteran director, Miss Bertha nearby mountains and on Hartwell, office and editor of the five-lan­ M. Green, coordinates hundreds of Keowee and Toxaway lakes, the guage directory for the machinery exhibitors with personnel of 17 result was the 1970 Motor Sport show. service agencies. They must work Expo. The aims of this show were Hotels and motels extending with thousands of mills around the to promote recreational oppor­ from North Carolina to Georgia are world on arrangements for visits to tunities, to exhibit outdoor equip­ filled, hundreds of Greenville Greenville. Staffers also direct or m en t and to enable hobbyists, homes accommodate visitors and provide backup service for the sportsmen and conservationists to thousands of visitors commute by other events which take place in the get together. An indoor invitational executive or charter plane into the hall. tennis tournament was part of the next-door airport. As an institution, the hall serves 1970 show. In February Motor Party talk for months afterward as catalyst for ideas for community Sport Expo will again present is flavored with international anec­ good. Examples are numerous. boats, trailers, campers, sports dotes about "our Swiss," "our Greenville Hospital System Director equipment and displays by groups Australians," or "our Italians." A Robert Toomey pondered his hos­ ranging from archers to yachtsmen. Mexico City mill executive tele­ pitals' needs for health career Director of the show is Ronald D. phoned to ask a housewife whether workers and the public ignorance of Plemmons who also serves as floor he and his party could stay at her opportunities in health and science. operations manager for textile home again. A group of Argentines The 1970 South Carolina Health shows. appeared at a door saying their and Science Fair, designed to help Despite the variety of other friend who couldn't come was sure remedy these problems, drew activities, the textile shows remain the lady of the house would find 63,000 visitors to acres of exhibits. the raison d'etre and the prime room for them; and a supercilious The hall provided the site and the source of income for the hall. There European mistook his mill execu­ show director (Eston L. Rodgers was a time just after World War II tive host for the butler. Jr., who d!'.mbles in brass as ex­ when the future of the hall was in Such anecdotes reflect the con­ hibitor services manager for the tex­ doubt, but the determination of the tine n t-w id e and international tile shows). Cosponsors of the fair directors to keep a textile show in friendships developed during more are the Greenville Hospital System, the South and vigorous new leader­ than half a century of warm Green­ Furman University, Clemson Uni­ ship in the person of James H. ville hospitality. versity, Bob Jones University, Woodside, who succeeded retiring "When showtime comes all of Greenville County School District, longtime president W.G. Sirrine, led Greenville reacts like an exper­ Greenville TEC and the South Caro­ to the renaissance which produced ienced team going onto the field," lina Hospital Association. The 1971 the new buildings, the expansion of says Yancey Gilkerson, Textile Hall fair is scheduled April 15-17. service, the growth of the Southern president. "Those whose help will Another fair resulted from the Textile Exposition and the transfer be needed are ready to go before concern of the chamber of com­ to Greenville from Atlantic City in the call goes out. Without that merce about young people leaving 1969 of the American Textile spirit, the shows and the hall itself the area for jobs. The Job Fair pro­ Machinery Exhibition-International would be the impossible dream de­ vides a forum for business, industry which Textile Hall now cosponsors rided by doubters when the and government to present career with American Textile Machinery dreamers went to work in 1914."

58 Sand lapper Points of Touristic Interest Around Greenville

Bob Jones University Art Gallery Classroom Building. While visiting operation with the public school and Museum-located on U.S. 29 Furman, "the university with the system. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. north. "The World's Most Unusual most beautiful campus," visit the Monday-Friday; 9 a.m.-1 p.m. University" houses the largest col­ Duke Library, the largest private Saturday; 2 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. lection of religious art under one university library in the state; the roof. The collection presently con­ Theatre 71 Playhouse and Mc­ Paris Mountain-located 41h miles tains more than 300 original paint­ Alister Auditorium. Visit the rose north of the city, at an altitude of ings by Old Masters such as Titian gardens, the historic bell tower by 2,054 feet, this is a most interesting and Rembrandt, and is exhibited in the lake, the picturesque fountains, geographical and meteorological 30 large individual galleries. "Better the Japanese gardens, etc. (A phenomenon. In some bygone Homes and Gardens" has called the campus tour map is available at the geological era, a cataclysmic con­ museum "the finest collection of Administration Building.) Hours: 9 vulsion of nature resulted in the religious art in America." Hours a.m.-5 p.m. eruption through a weakened place (from Labor Day to commence­ in the earth's crust of a sufficient ment): 12 noon-5 p.m. Tuesday­ Greenville County Library-located volume of molten material to pro­ Saturday, 1:30 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday; in a new elegant building at 300 duce the core of this thousand-foot during summer, 2 p.m.-4 p.m. College St. Some of the highlights monadnock. Paris Mountain was Tuesday-Sunday. found in the library include paint­ once the home of Cherokee Indians ings and sculpture, the beautiful and the Indian chief, Walhassa. · revolving world globe and the South Carolina Historic Room. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday­ Saturday.

Greenville Little Theatre-located at 444 College St., it moved into the modern 600-seat building in 1967 which was named for Charles E. Daniel. Produces an excellent qual­ ity of theatre entertainment and is one of the finest community thea­ tres in the Southeast with a mem­ -Photo by Ronald E. Bridwell Honorable Mention, Color Photo Contest bership of 9,000. Under the direc­ tion of Robert Hemphill McLane. Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Furman University-located on U.S. Caesars Head-located north of 25 north. Art exhibits by South Greenville County Museum of Art­ Greenville on U.S. 276, this was an Carolina and Southeastern artists located in the old Gassaway Man­ early gathering place for the from September-May at the Wat­ sion (106 Dupont Drive), a 40- Cherokee Indians. Nearby is Sas­ kins Student Center, and student room house originally located on a safras Mountain, the highest point art exhibits in the J.C. Furman 100-acre estate. The museum has a in the state. growing permanent collection of American art and many traveling exhibitions each year. An active art school program functions in co-

January 1971 59 Christ Episcopal Church-located at the corner of Church and North streets. Organized in 1820, the present church was built in 18 5 2-54. An example of "First Point Gothic," the church was de­ signed and built under the direction of the Rev. J. DeWitt McCollough, a former rector of the Church of the Advent in Spartanburg. As you visit the church, notice the altar window on the east end of the nave. It has been called one of the three most beautiful church win­ dows in this country today. The beams, pews, altar and gallery were hand-hewn from local wood.

-Photo by Jo Pinkard Fairview Presbyterian Church­ Honorable Mention, Photo Contest founded in 1786, the present build­ -Photo by Ronald E. Bridwell ing was erected in 1857 and has a Pretty Place-located about five slave gallery and family pews. miles north of Caesars Head is an Communion is served at a long open-air chapel for boys attending table placed before the pulpit. In Camp Greenville. This is actually the yard and cemetery are such more than a breathtaking overlook interesting things as the "upping high in the mountains; the chapel block" on which the ladies hangs precariously to the mountain­ mounted their side-saddled horses; side and affords a view described as also of interest are unusual tomb­ ''a communion with God." The stone markers. The church is lo­ charm and ruggedness of the beau­ cated southwest of Fountain Inn on tiful mountains are captured in the s.c. 55. native stone building with its rustic -Photo by Charles E. Privette wooden pews. On a clear day you Honorable Mention, Color Photo Contest can see for 30 miles or more.

Cedar of Lebanon Tree-located on a vacant lot between 303 and 307 Reedy River Falls-located on Crescent Ave., the tree was reput­ Camperdown Way, the site of the edly presented as a seedling from Pearis Trading Post and Mill, the Palestine by Judge Baylis Earle dec­ first trading post and mill in Green­ ades ago. The landscaped grounds ville (1776). of the stately home are located opposite the tree. Poinsett Bridge-located north of Greenville on S.C. 42 (just off U.S. 25 ), the bridge is a significant land­ mark of upper South Carolina. The arch of this bridge is one of the most beautiful relics of the early road builders' craftsmanship. It was a part of the original State Road, laid out by Joel R. Poinsett in 1817-19 and completed in 1820.

60 First Baptist Church-founded in Shriners' Hospital for Crippled 1826, this was the second church in Children-located at 2100 N. Pleas­ the city of Greenville. The first antburg Drive, owned and operated place of worship was a small brick by the Shriners. This unit was building on 100 West McBee opened in 1927 and maintains Avenue and Irvin Street. The pres­ adequate staff for the 60-bed unit. ent building, begun in 1853, was Crippled children age 16 and under designed by Sloan & Stewart, are treated here. Architects of Philadelphia. Its style -Photo by Steve Robertson is Greek Revival and its distinctive Honorable Mention, Color Photo Contest features are its spire, its fluted Ionic ------• r -•-w•·· •"' --.- ...,.,.-,-~ columns and its recessed front en­ trance.

McBee Chapel-located in Conestee, South Carolina, the octagonal Methodist Church was built to serve those local farmers employed in Vardry M cBee's early Conestee Mill, nearby. Designed and built by John Adams. Only two of these churches are still in existence in the United States.

Green ville-Spartanburg Airport­ conveniently located 12 miles from Greenville; accessible by interstate highways and equipped with the newest navigational and traffic control facilities. Frequent flights depart every day for all parts of the country via five airlines: Eastern, Piedmont, Southern, Air South and South Atlantic. The airport has a 5 , 5 00-foot lighted concrete run­ way, three fixed-base operators and numerous hangars for private air­ craft.

Greenville Technical Education Center-located on South Pleasant­ burg Drive. Some of the most in­ Piedmont Exposition Park-Shining economy. The Greenville center teresting and informative depart­ like a crown atop Greenville's also previews South Carolina of the ments of Greenville TEC open for Roper Mountain, the Buckminster future. Located at the intersection tours include: the Textile Manu­ Fuller-designed geodesic cube is the of 1-85 and 1-385, the center is I facturing Department, Textile focal point of the Piedmont Tri­ open daily from 10 a.m. until 7 Chemistry Lab, Metalworking Lab, centennial Exposition Park, and is a p.m. A parking fee of $1 per car is ~1·,.. Welding, Data Processing, Drafting, familiar landmark to 1-85 motorists the only charge. Electronics, Unit Operations Lab traveling through South Carolina. . and Health Career Center. Arrange­ The cube presents a capsule of "• ~ .. '. ·' ments must be made with Green­ South Carolina's history and spot­ ville TEC's Public Relations Direc­ lights the state's present aggressive tor in advance for tours. industrial growth and broad-based

January 1971 61 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS

THE PAPERS OF HENRY Antigua with provisions and re­ At Better Bookstores LAURENS, Volume II: 1755-1758. ceived from his old friend Com­ Edited by Philip M. Hamer and mod ore Thomas Frankland con­ E. Milby Burton George C. Rogers. University of signments of slaves seized in the South Carolina Press. $15.00. West Indies. When there was a THE SIEGE OF threat of invasion of Charleston CHARLESTON, from the French West Indies in 1861-1865 This singular Carolinian played a December 1756, he was one of major role in the development of those who sent to Philadelphia for ISBN : 0-87249-125-0 373 pages, illustrated, $9.95 South Carolina and in the founding "war-like" stores. When captains of of the United States. During his privateers brought their prizes to lifetime (1724-92) Laurens was a Charleston, Laurens and his asso­ Charleston merchant and planter, ciates purchased the condemned George C. Rogers, Jr. lieutenant colonel of a South Caro­ vessels. THE HISTORY OF lina regiment in the Cherokee War, Amid this tumult Henry Laurens GEORGETOWN COUNTY, diplomat, president of the South purchased the first of his plan­ SOUTH CAROLINA Carolina Council of Safety and of tations, making him a planter as the Continental Congress, and even well as a merchant, and served his ISBN: 0-87249-143-9 community as vestryman of the 565 pages, illustrated, $12.50 a captive in the Tower of London. The second volume of his papers, parish, foreman of the jury and covering the period 1755-58, traces steward of the South Carolina E. Milby Burton the efforts of Laurens and his Society. partner George Austin to build a The reader is able to experience CHARLESTON FURNITURE, fortune during the "cold war" with an unusual immediacy the 1700-1825 which followed Braddock's defeat boom years of pre-Revolutionary (The Charleston Museum, 1955) in July 1755 and the English decla­ Charleston through the words of ISBN : 0-87249-198-6 ration of war against France. Henry Laurens. His was a time of 202 pages, including 149 plates, $12.50 Through their letters and the adver­ danger and of opportunity-the tisements which they placed in the period of diversity upon which South Carolina Gazette, the reader South Carolina's later unity was Nobel Prize- Winner follows the brisk trade and growth built. Alexander of the Charleston mercantile firm This book, sponsored by the of Austin & Laurens. Shipments of South Carolina Historical Society, SOLZHENITSYN rice, deerskins and indigo were is the second of a planned 12- "WE NEVER MAKE MISTAKES" exported to English, Portuguese, volume series which, according to Dutch and German ports. In return the "William and Mary Quarterly," Two Short Novels: the British merchants of Bristol, "Promises to be a rewarding ex­ AN INCIDENT AT Liverpool, Lancaster and London perience" contributing "greatly to KRECHETOVKA STATION shipped goods ranging from paving our understanding of both the man MATRYONA'S HOUSE stones for the streets of Charleston and his environment." Volume to paintings for Cooper River plan­ Three will cover the period 1759-63 Translated from the Russian tations. Austin & Laurens also re­ and is scheduled for publication in and with an Introduction tailed their goods through country January 1972. by Paul W. Blackstock outlets, enabling them to reach the Anyone attempting to review a ISBN: 0-87249-090-4 markets of the Black River indigo truly monumental series such as 100 pages, illustrated, $4 .95 planters and the Edisto River rice "The Papers of Henry Laurens" planters. eventually encounters the dilemma Laurens kept a close watch on mentioned in regard to the first UNIVERSITY OF war developments. He was con­ volume by the London "Times SOUTH CAROLINA cerned that Adm. Byng had failed Literary Supplement": "Faced with II PRESS in the Mediterranean and hoped for this superlatively competent and successes in Nova Scotia. He sent highly intelligent editing, a reviewer ships to Jamaica, Barbados and can say very little."

62 Sand lap per THE MAN WHO SAID NO. By Petigru's life and career from his Sally Edwards. 182 pages. Coward­ youth in Up-Country South Caro­ McCann, Inc. $4.95. lina to his days of prominence as a THE MAN WHO SAID NO member of the Charleston bar, On Dec. 20, 1860, the bells of through the years of disillusion and by Sally Edwards St. Michael's tolled long and loud as finally death. The book is filled Charleston's citizens collectively with the personalities of the era's rejoiced over a decision which was great men, from James Waddel to to change the lives of generations John C. Calhoun. yet unborn: South Carolina's pas­ There is a striking parallel be­ sage of the Ordinance of Secession. tween the lives of South Carolina's One man in the city, however, did last Unionist and his Northern ally, not rejoice. For years, James Peti­ Abraham Lincoln. Both spent their gru had watched with deepening early years as backcountry farm concern as his state and the South boys, struggling for an education; slipped down the road from nulli­ both were lean and awkward men, fication to outright rebellion. Only almost comical at times in their the day before his voice had thun­ lack of social graces, who overcame dered through the hall as he spoke, the obstacles in their paths and unbidden, to the state's assembled obtained positions of prominence; delegates: both were lawyers and champions "Are you perfect men? No! You of the common people. Both, a [ready have a perfect bond of throughout their lives, held the Union: the Constitution. Even if cause of the Union sacred, and the Gulf States and South Carolina both, in different ways, gave their do flake off forever, I will never lives defending it. Throughout his cease to witness with joy what in­ life Petigru would say he was "born creases the honor of my country, with the Union"; on the day his the United States of America. state denied the Constitution's Inaugurate your revolution. I will validity, he declared: "I have seen not go with you! the last happy day of my life." A Spartanburg native's "No! South Carolina is too small Although "The Man Who Said well-researched, highly to be a republic, and too large to be No" was written primarily for readable account of one an insane asylum!" young adults, history lovers of all man's struggle to Diehard Southern "nationalists" ages will find it informative and preserve his integrity are apt to remember the conflict interesting, a thoroughly researched and his country. which followed in the glorious tech­ study of the man who "withstood nicolor hues of Hollywood epics, his people for his country ... " and confusing the blood with antebel­ of the age in which he lived. $4.95 lum glitter, and celebrating the ex­ Sally Edwards was born in Spar­ ploits of such men as Robert E. tanburg, received her BA from Con­ Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jeffer­ verse College, and did graduate son Davis. In the midst of such work at Columbia University, New heroics, the existence of James L. York University and the New Petigru, a hero of quite another School for Social Research in New sort, has become almost lost in the York. She has long been interested mists of history. Yet it is surpris­ in the history of her state, par­ ing-and perhaps encouraging-to ticularly the period prior to the know that one man, at least, saw Civil War, and in the course of her clearly the folly of his country­ historical research has come upon men's action and had the courage many unpublished diaries and sandlapper to stand behind his convictions. In letters of the period. The author is this respect Sally Edwards' biog­ presently a free-lance writer and BOOKSTORE raphy fills a gap in the average contributor to the Charlotte Ob­ Location : U.S. 378 reader's knowledge of the period, server. Previous writings include W. Columbia, S.C. Mailing Address : P.O. Box 1668 and for this alone would merit "South Carolina," one of a "States Columbia, S.C. 29202 attention. of the Nation" series, published in "The Man Who Said No" traces 1968.-B.L.

January 1971 63 BBL 300 YEARS OF CAROLINA COOKING. Published by the Junior League of Greenville, Inc. In this excel­ lent new cookbook, one will find not only the traditional recipes of the early days but also up-to-date recipes. Hard­ back $4.50. san apper I BOOKS OF INTEREST TO THE PIEDMONT AREA

Ll. CAROLINA CUISINE. Compiled by the Junior Assembly of Anderson, S.C. More than 600 recipes for traditional and little-known dishes, from oyster pie to MI14. GREENVILLE DISTRICT MAP. okra pickle. $4.50. 23" X 29". $6.

MM2. TEA TIME IN OLD PENDLETON. By the Foundation for Historic Restora­ 0 tion in the Pendleton, S.C. Area. $2.20. \\ = CC2. THE MAN WHO SAID NO. By Sally Edwards. Biography of James Peti­ gru-a brilliant lawyer, a devoted husband and father, and a courageous opponent of slavery and secession. Her account blends biography with history, as she etches both a fascinating portrait of the man and of the times in which he lived. Ages 12 to 16, but interesting to all ages. $4.95.

CCL SOUTH CAROLINA. By Sally Ed­ wards. Miss Edwards was born in Spartan­ ,f, burg and has long been interested in the history of her native state. In this book it comes alive. $4.29.

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January 1971 65 EVENTS

All activities to be considered for the Calendar of Events must be sent directly to the Events Editor, Sand­ lapper Press, Inc., P.O. Box 1668, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, no later than 3 0 days prior to the first of the month in which the S~~D activity will occur. dance

JANUARY P.ATTE'RNS 14 CO LUM BIA - Township Auditorium- The Pennsylvania Ballet. FOR NEEDLEWORK 23 CL l NT ON - Presbyterian Co liege - first AND TILEWORK Chamber Dance Company of New York. 25 FLORENCE- Moore Junior High Auditorium­ First Chamber Dance Company of New York. 26 AIKEN - Aiken Junior High Auditorium - First Chamber Dance Company of New York . . c1ne1na

JANUARY ... . .LI I I •.u1 13 ROCK HILL- Winthrop College - "The Fifth Horseman is rear." A full-color Carolina Gamecock, Citadel Bulldog and 20 Clemson Tiger are each reproduced on scaled paper GREENVILLE- Greenville County Museum of (approximately 22" x 27"), and ready for the do-it­ yourselfer interested in creating an unusual accent for Art- "Grand Illusion." personal use or for the home. Whether it be a pocketbook, chair seat cover, rug, plaque, card table cover, tote bag, wastebasket cover, wall hanging, tile top table, or any one of scores of lectures needlework and tilework applications, these patterns by Adalee Winter offer interesting creative possibilities. JANUARY A how-to-do-it instruction booklet illustrated with 11 profuse drawings that will make even a novice an accom­ plished needleworker has also been prepared by Mrs. CH AR LESTON - Charleston County Public Winter. Library- Dr. frank Durham, "The Gold Patterns of the Gamecock, Bulldog and Tiger are Bug." $2.00 each. The needlework instruction booklet is $1.00 28 Enclose 25 cents postage and handling charge for each C LINTON - Presbyterian College- ] a mes order to be shipped to separate addresses. South Caro­ Dickey, USC Poet in Residence. lina residents please add 4% sales tax. Send orders to Sandlapper Press, Inc., Box 1668, rEBRUARY Columbia, S.C. 29202. 15 GAFFNEY-Limestone College- Dr. Edward J. Shea, Southern Regional Director, ASCAP.

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The Citadel Summer Camp for Boys was founded by Gen. Mark Clark in 1957 to provide wholesome and enjoyable training for a select group of boys during the summer. The camp program is designed to develop systematically the physical, mental, moral, spiritual, patriotic, and social characteristics of campers. Weekly chapel services and daily flag ceremonies are held to nurture in each camper a love of God and country. There are two four-week sessions of the camp each summer. The modern facilities and professional services of the college hospital are available to the campers. The camp newspaper and a report on each camper's routine camp life, health, special interests, and participa- tion in camp activities are mailed to parents. Only boys of good moral character who are 11 through 15 years of age are admitted. The Citadel Summer Camp for Boys is accredited by the American Camping Association. For additional information write to The Director, The Citadel Summer Camp for Boys, Charleston, S.C. 29409.

The illustration below was taken from . WILDFLOWER music NEEDLEWORK GAS FIRED PATf ERI:;p PORTABLE By Ad.alee ~r JANUARY 7 INFRA-RED COLUMBIA-Drayton Hall - Leonard Rose, Cellist. HARTSVILLE - Hartsville Center Theatre­ HEATERS John Stewart, Singer. 12,000 BTU $35.00 24,000 BTU $55.00 8 COLUMBIA - University of South Carolina­ Faculty Recital: rrits de Jonge, Violinist, and John K. Adams, Pianist. 10 CHARLESTON- Gibbes Art Gallery -Charles­ ton Chamber Ensemble Concert. Tank J COLUMBIA - Museum of Art- Igor Kipnis, Harpsichord. 11 J COLUMBIA- Benedict College- Simon Estes, Bass-baritone, Tschaikovsky Contest Winner. COLUMBIA - College Place Methodist

To purchase patJern send $2 Church-Columbia College Midwinter De­ vo,tlt A limited number of these heaters plus 25 r/. post'age ahd, hahdling to: partmental Concert. are available at substantially re­ SANDLAPPER 12 duced prices through Dept. H, P.O. Box 1668 CHAR LESTON- Municipal Auditorium -rer­ Sandlapper Press, Inc., P.O. Box Columbia, S.C. 29202 rante and Teicher, Duo-pianists. 1668, Columbia, S.C. 29202. COLUMBIA- University of South Carolina­ S.C. residents please add 4% sales tax raculty Recital: John K. Adams, Pianist.

January 1971 67 13 COLUMBIA- University of South Carolina­ USC Orchestra Concert. 14 CLINTON - Presbyterian College- Fedora Horo­ witz, Pianist. 16 BENNETTSVILLE- Bennettsville High School Auditorium - USC Chorus Concert. 17 COLUMBIA - Dreher High Auditorium- Colum­ bia Philharmonic Orchestra, with John A. Bauer and Frits de Jonge, Violinists. 18 GR EE NV ILLE- Church of the Redeemer­ Bach Organ Preludes, by Students of Karl N. Stahl. ROCK HILL- Winthrop College-Jeff Brandes, Organ : Concert-lecture on Bach's "Art of The Collectors Item Fugue." 19 of the Tricentennial ANDERSON- New York Pro Musica. SPARTANBURG - Converse College-"Con­ For years to come you will cherish this memento of South Carolina's 300th year- it's a certo Concert" by the Spartanburg Sym­ giant 6V2 x 11 inch reproduction of the Tricentennial commemorative stamp. Every phony and Student Winners from Converse color and detail of the original has been captured, from the rich, wood-grain background to the stained, sculptured edges. One-quarter inch thick, the stamp comes College School of Music. complete with metal hanger, ready to place on any wall. A high-gloss coating protects SUMTER-Edmunds High School Auditorium­ the hand-screened colors. Price is $5.95 each plus $.50 for postage and handling. Virgil Fox, Organist. -Enclose check or money order and please allow 3 weeks for delivery. 21 KNIGHTSBRIDGE, INC. P.O. Box 1667, High Point, N. c. 27261 CLEMSON- Clemson College- The Dorian Woodwind Quintet in Morton Subotnick's "The Misfortunes of the Immortals," Mixed Media Presentation; plus Traditional Music. SANDLAPPER IS GROWING AGAIN! With 25 the creation of a brand new company, SAN DLAPPER AUDIO/VISUAL, INC., ROCK HILL- Winthrop College- Jeff Brandes, SANDLAPPER now becomes one of the Organ : Concert-lecture on Bach's "Art of nation's full-service, multi-media or­ ganizations ... dealing in a wide Fugue." range of communications from 27 print media to the full audio/ CHARLESTON-The Citadel-Gerschefski and visual spectrum. Directed by veteran broad­ McCall, Cello and Cordovox. caster John Wrisley, SAND­ 28 LAP PER AUDIO/ ROCK HILL-Winthrop College-School of VISUAL, INC., is be· ginning its existence as a Music Concert: Irving Klein, Cellist. production center for 29 custom commercial sound-slide programs for GEORGETOWN-Georgetown Library Audito­ business, industry and edu­ rium - USC Chorus Concert. cational markets. Plans call for FEBRUARY a rapid expansion into a variety of audio-visual areas including 4 feature and program syndication COLUMBIA- University of South Carolina­ for broadcasters. SANDLAPPER A/V has adopted, as its Byron Janis, Pianist. slogan, "The Sights and Sounds of the ROCK HILL-Winthrop College- Mary Costa, '70s." Soprano. For more information on SANDLAPPER 5-6 A/V, write SPARTANBURG - Wofford College- Mid­ winter Concert. 6 ROCK HILL- Winthrop College- Symposium on Music. sandla~per 9 GAFFNEY-Limestone College- Tucson, Ari­ zona, Boys' Choir. 11 auQ~9LY.J~!Jal GREENVILLE- Bob Jones University- Philip Cho,Tenor.

68 Sandlapper They'd rather have you around than your insurance. Get yourself a good, thorough examination once a year. Once a year, let your doctor really look you over. It'll take a little time, and a little patience. And maybe he'll poke around a little more than you'd really like. And so he should. The whole idea is to keep you healthy. If nothing's wrong (and more than likely, there isn't) hooray! Come back next year. But if anything's suspicious, then you've gained the most important thing of all: time. We can save 1 out of 2 persons when cancer is caught in time, caught early. That's a good thing to know. All Daddies should know how to take care of themselves so that they can have the fun of taking care of their kids. Don't be afraid. It's what you don't know that can hurt you. ~ AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY ANSWERS: (From page 17) ROCK HILL-Winthrop College-Faculty Con­ 21-25 Across Down cert: Patricio Cobos, Piano, and Jess Casey, GREENWOOD - Greenwood Community 1. 21 1. 29 Piano. Theatre-"Ah, Wilderness." 3. 141 2. 136 14 22-23, 28-31 6. 12 1786 3. COLUMBIA- Museum of Art-Mr. and Mrs. ANDERSON-Anderson Community Theatre­ 8. 931 4. 41 "Barefoot in the Park." 10. 17152 5. 1540 Robert McDonald, Piano and Poetry. 12. 321 6. 126 25 13. 66188 7. 21 CHARLESTON- Municipal Auditorium­ 15. 43316 9. 16274 "Forty Carats." 17. 20 10. 18 29-30, February Hi 18. 670 11. 23 theatre 19. 00 12. 31055 COLUMBIA-Town Theatre-"The Threepenny 20. 1774 14. 107 Opera." 22. 7151 16. 301 24. 124 20. 12631 JANUARY 25. 45154 21. 44352 8-10 29. 521 22. 74941 FLORENCE-Florence Little Theatre­ 31. 76 23. 12940 "Aesop's Fallables," Musical Production for 32. 2382594 24. 176 33. 94 26. 588 Children. JANUARY 34. 636 27. 124 13-19 Through January 10 36. 58434 28. 553 ABBEVILLE- Abbeville Opera House- Ten­ CLEMSON-Clemson University-"Staging the 37. 945 30. 145 state Southeastern Regional Competitions, Visual," College of Architecture Exhibit. 38. 1562 35. 65925 American College Theatre Festival (AETA 40. 1670 37. 97433 COLUMBIA- Museum of Art-Books for Chil­ 42. 99 39. 699 and ANTA). dren. 43. 101 41. 610 19 1-31 45. 14 43. 1801 CHARLESTON-Municipal Auditorium­ CLINTON- Presbyterian College - Repro­ 46. 52928 44. 1889 "1776." ductions of the Great Masters from C0lum­ 48. 81038 46. 535 51. 435 47. 23 DUE WEST-Erskine College-"The Book of bia Museum of Art. 52. 30481 49. 11 Job." CLINTON-Presbyterian College- South Caro­ 53. 300 50. 803 21 lina Association of Schools of Art Exhibit. 55. 65 51. 46 ROCK HILL-Winthrop College- The National GREENVILLE- Furman University-Paintings 56. 169 54. 00 57. 30 Players in "Oedipus Rex." by Betty Jane Bramlett. WALLET PHOTOS

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70 Sandlapper 30-February 24 SUMTER- Sumter Gallery of Art-Compre­ hensive Exhibit, Elizabeth White. FEBRUARY 2-21 GREENVILLE- Greenville County Museum of Art-Recent Works of Bruno Stern Zupan. 7-21 COLUMBIA- Museum of Art- Scholastic Art Awards. 7-26 WEST COLUMBIA- Sandlapper Gallery ­ Arthur Rose, One-man Show. 7-28 COLUMBIA- Museum of Art- Paintings by Joan Milligan. 7-March 5 FLORENCE- Florence Museum - Bill Buggie, Paintings. 9-March 1 CLEMSON- Clemson University - "Design in the '70s." save 14-March 7 GREENVILLE-Greenville County Museum of Art- "Children of Many Lands Illustrate Grimm's Fairy Tales." your copies GREENVILLE- Peoples National Bank- Helen Fuseler, One-man Show. .---:;;a 3-24 COLUMBIA- Museum of Art- Springs Travel­ ing Art Show. SPARTANBURG - The Gallery- Prints and Original Works by Elizabeth O'Neill Verner. SUMTER - Sumter Gallery of Art, Corrie Mc­ Callum, Oils. of 3-February 5 FLORENCE- Florence Museum - William S. Dowis, Pain tings and Prints. 10-27 WEST COLUMBIA - Sandlapper Gallery­ Jeanet S. Dreskin, One-man Show. 10-31 COLUMBIA- Museum of Art-Sculpture by Susanne Guite. COLUMBIA - Museum of Art- Three-man Award Show: Teed, Mullen and Formo. GREENVILLE-Greenville County Museum of In This Handsome Binder Art-Greenville Artists Guild, Thirty-fifth Annual Juried Exhibition. Each sturdy blue binder is fitted with 12 removable rods, allowing 12-February 7 easy in sertion or removal of any of the year·s iss ues of Sandlapper. CLEMSON-Clemson University - Six South Carolina Painters: Thomas Flowers, Carl The publication, vo lume and year are stamped in gold on the binder. Blair, Emery Bopp, J. Bardin, David Van Please state whether you desire a binder for Volume I (1968), Hook and William Halsey. Volume II (1969), Volume Ill (1970), or Volume IV (1971). The binders are $4.00 each postpaid. S. C. res idents add 4% sa les tax. miscellaneous Write to: Sandlapper Press, In c. P. 0. Bo x 1668 Columbia , S. C . 29202 JANUARY Through January 6 ANDERSON - "Christmas in the Air" Festival.

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72 Sandlapper SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE REVOLUTION BATTLEGROUND OF FREEDOM By Nat & Sam Hilborn South Carolina saw as much battle as any state during the American Revolution-13 7 engagements, according to one authority. Nat and Sam Hilborn have focused pen and camera on the military conflicts within the state and interspersed exciting accounts of these battles with documented, lesser-known tales of people and places. The 256-page volume is bountifully illustrated with hundreds of photographs, portraits and maps, 92 in full color. The authors' photographs are supplemented with photos and portraits from private collections from all over the United States and abroad. A must for aficionados of South Carolina history and collectors of Caroliniana, Battleground of Freedom­ South Carolina in the Revolution is being published by Sandlapper Press, Inc. on December 15.

Send your check for $20.00 now (plus 50 cents for postage and handling, and 4 per cent sales tax for S.C. residents). A delightful gift for any occasion. Order TODAY from: Sandlapper Press, Inc., P.O. Box 1668, Columbia, South Carolina 29202. A New Coliseum Will Bolster Greenville as a C

here is no better indicator of the new center would complement the facilities. Sixty-eight per cent of the phenomenal growth of the highly successful Greenville Memo­ total seating is at the sides or the TGreenville area than the many rial Auditorium and in no way re­ preferred view angle and 45 per impressive new public facilities for place the existing facility. cent of the seating is at dress circle conventions, entertainment and the The new complex, designed by level-an extremely high percentage arts. Soon work will begin on yet Tarleton-Tankersley Architectural of good seats for a complex of this another major project-a coliseum Group, Inc. of Greenville, will oc­ size. and convention complex to be con­ cupy almost all of the seven-block Facilities for performers or teams structed adjacent to the present tract bordered by Church Street, include four locker rooms and 10 downtown auditorium. Academy Street, East North Street "star" dressing rooms with private Plans for the multipurpose facil­ and the proposed College-Beattie entrances and direct access to the ity call for an arena to seat 12,650 Street extension. portable stage or the arena. Meeting for basketball and up to 13,000 for Architect Ladson D. Tankersley rooms which may be used inde­ stage show entertainment, an ex­ says the unique configuration of pendently of the other areas are hibit hall with 99,500 square feet the building, with vertical service provided at the arena and mezza­ of exhibit space, a banquet hall, 15 cores in each of the four corners, nine levels. The coliseum will be meeting rooms and parking garages will eliminate the undesirable lighted for color TV; transmitting with space for 1,400 autos. The "corner" seats found in most arena points, a press box and a press suite

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with elevator service are planned. Permanent ice-making coils will be constructed in the floor for hockey, ice skating or ice shows. The banquet hall, another key feature of the complex, will seat 1,000 for dinner or serve 1,550 theatre-style, and will help compen­ sate for the lack of banquet-style dining facilities in the city. A kitchen adjacent to the banquet hall will also serve other areas of the complex. When all available floor space in the new facilities-exhibit hall, coli­ seum floor and banquet hall-are --t...~ added to the existing auditorium area, the complex will be one of the ....

largest in the United States at professional basketball games this 183,855 square feet. Parking season and that he has had to de­ garages and access ramps have been cline 31 events since October 1 designed to facilitate traffic move­ alone. ment and minimize walking dis­ The fact that competition from tances, and extensive landscaping at other area cities is hurting the audi­ the entrances and on the upper torium became especially evident level of the parking garages is earlier this year when the Ring­ planned. ling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus Chamber of commerce president abandoned its traditional weekend Thomas A. Roe explains: "Some­ stand in Greenville, leaving the city times we try to be No. 1 in South with less-attractive midweek dates. Carolina and sometimes we are The weekend shows were scheduled satisfied to be a leader in the South­ for Columbia's Carolina Coliseum. east, but with this facility in opera­ Timms says completion of the new tion we will be near the top of the coliseum would free the existing national list of convention centers auditorium for more local events and, economically, the people of and stage shows. Greenville will know it. Over the Total development committee past few years Greenville has seen chairman W. Gordon McCabe says, some key events slip away to other "The total development plan is now cities with newer facilities. Their taking shape and the seemingly buildings are now complete and it is impossible task that we charted for Greenville's move." ourselves only a few years ago is Auditorium manager Les Timms now well underway." says that Greenville has outgrown The new Greenville coliseum will present auditorium facilities and be a giant step in the realization of Vertical service cores in each corner will that events are often turned away this plan. eliminate undersirable "corner" seats in because open dates are not avail­ the arena. Above: Seating capacity for able. He also points out that he was James G. Vaughan Jr. is editor of stage show entertainment will be 13,000. unable to accommodate several "The Big G."

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he magnificent new $2.6 million Greenville County Library, Topened eatly this year, stands appropriatel:1 on what is expected to become Greenville's cultural center, the intersection of College Street and Academy Street Through­ way. The library's neighbor, on the site of the old Greenville Woman's College campus, is Greenville's lovely Little Theatre, opened in 1967. ( See ''Sandlapper," February 1968.) Both structures bear the im­ print of one of Greenville's most public-spirited citizens, Arthur Magill. The Charles E. Daniel Little Theatre also houses Magill Hall, the soundproofed practice home of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra. A generous contribution by Magill to the Little Theatre building fund made the symphony's quarters possible. The library is dedicated to Fred­ erick W. Symmes in recognition of GREENVILLE the $600,000 gift to the library from the Symmes Foundation and the philanthropist's personal role in the library's history. On the main floor is a great COUNTY topographical globe whose clear blues, greens and browns are re­ flected in the restful colors of the library's furnishings. This globe, By Lucille 8. Green given by Magill and his wife and LIBRARY dedicated to their parents, once Through the Friends of the Li­ seum of Art in new quarters at the stood in the old and shabby library brary he helped finance a public rear of the cultural center acreage. at 420 N. Main St. Now it is the lecture series by well-known au­ His gift of $750,000 to establish a only tangible evidence of Magill's thors. The series encouraged public building fund nucleus was the larg­ vital role in the realization of the interest in authors, books and the est contribution ever made by an new library. library and provided another ful­ individual to a local organization or Magill's contributions to the li­ crum with which to apply leverage enterprise. brary included energy and time and for library support. Magill himself The new library is a result of a a passion for his goal. For years, in spoke before every club that would rare combination of public, private his role as president of the Friends invite him. and government support. In ad­ of the Library, Magill spoke before The Friends' efforts paid off, and dition to the $600,000 from the groups large and small, citing statis­ the library's new home became a Symmes Foundation, the structure tics and carrying little flash cards to reality. But Magill didn't stop there. was financed by a $1.5 million demonstrate the need for greater Even before the new library was bond issue authorized by the financial support for the local li­ opened, he initiated a move to Greenville County legislative dele­ brary. establish the Greenville County Mu- gation, to be paid by county tax-

January 1971 77 payers. A sum of $250,000 came Library activities begin on the fully protected during construction. from the State Library Board ground floor. From the Academy In the warm, rose-grey granite through the federal Library Services Street lobby one has access to the foyer is a huge black marble plaque Construction Act, and $250,000 auditorium, the red-white-and-blue with gold lettering paying tribute to through the Appalachian Regional children's room and the Annie S. Symmes. From the foyer the li­ Development Act, another federal Porter processing room. This room, brary patron comes face to face grant. While the people in the com­ largest in the library, honors Miss with the flying staircases and the munity have backed legislative Porter, first of Greenville's librar­ beds of green planting beneath. The moves to provide tax money, var­ ians and pioneer of the bookmobile decor of soft moss-green, clear ious clubs have raised and continue program in South Carolina. lemon-yellow, rust, gold and beige to raise money to augment the li­ The children's room is dedicated sets a mood of restful contem­ brary collections. to Miss Margaret Mahon, children's plation. More than 375 seats, in Thus it was with a feeling of services librarian for many years. contrast to only 60 in the old dream-turned-reality that library Although now retired she comes quarters, provide further invitation patrons entered the library for the weekly to tell stories at the Friday for browsing. first time to admire the ground­ afternoon children's hour. A The fiction collection is imme­ floor auditorium, the twin circular $10,000 children's book fund was diately available on this floor. The staircases and the picturesque sky­ established following her retire­ reference office and collections are light that tops the structure. ment. in the rear. On the mall side, indi­ The library's design is contem­ Also at ground level is a small vidual carrels and easy chairs pro­ porary, like that of the Little storage room for books dropped in vide study space. At the left front is Theatre, but the use of pillars and the book chute. Growing numbers an informal reading area housing other artifices give it a flavor of of patrons use the chute on the side popular magazines and newspapers. Southern graciousness. The exterior driveway, where books can be re­ On the second floor, encircled by is brick in a Flemish bond pattern. turned without the inconvenience window panels three feet high, are All the exterior materials match of parking. Bookmobile loading more book collections, a music those of the theatre building. areas as well as library extension listening area, art loan collections, Inside, the double circular stairs staff offices and workrooms are at the South Carolina room, the con­ from the first to the second floor the rear of this floor. An elevator ference room and several staff of­ complement the square bays, and and a circular stair provide access to fices. the open central well emphasizes the main floor from the lower The South Carolina room and the play of light and shade through lobby. The main floor street en­ the conference room are the most the skylight above. A basement, trance is from College Street; its elegantly furnished and occupy the wholly underground, houses all util­ stately doorway is framed in the front corners. The former, paneled ities and storage bookstacks. old campus elms which were care- in cherry, has a 25-foot-long glass

Right: The South Carolina room is perhaps the most elegant in the beautiful library. At right is a 25-foot-long exhibit case. The books, many of them irreplaceable, are kept in closed stacks, but a staff member is ready to help the patron. Far right: The attention of patrons coming in the main entrance immediately focuses on a huge world globe. Its colors are reflected in the carpeting and furnishings.

78 Sand lap per exhibit case. The conference room is paneled in walnut and has hard­ wood floors. The rest of the build­ ing is carpeted. A growing number of patrons are utilizing the record album listening complex which permits patrons to play albums before checking them out. Two listeners can be accommo­ dated simultaneously at each of six tables, which are complete with turntables, amplifiers and con­ nections for plugging in stereo headsets for individual listening. As in all modern libraries, there are photo copy facilities and a micro­ film collection. There is even a col­ lection of talking books for the blind, who can utilize the second floor listening complex. But it was not always thus. The library's former home was an inadequate, outmoded school building, abandoned by the Green­ ville County School District. There the library had existed for 30 years. When the old structure was finally vacated, it was immediately demol­ ished to make way for a parking complex. The library, established in 1921, first occupied rented quarters at the corner of East Coffee and Brown were crowded into the old struc­ mittee was Romayne A. Barnes, streets. Then for several years it ture." known to much of the community occupied rented space next to the Stow joined the library staff in as "Mr. Library." Like Magill, he present Paris Theatre. 1951 and became librarian in 1952. spoke before innumerable organi­ The struggle for adequate facil­ He succeeded Miss Ellen Perry, who zations to gain support for the new ities has been accompanied by a joined the staff in 1928 and was library. With his committee he struggle for enlarged and modern librarian from 1942 to 1952. Miss traveled throughout the Southeast collections. Perry is honored with a plaque that visiting other new libraries and gain­ There are now about four million marks the main floor reference ing ideas both for construction and volumes and other media in the area. operation. collections, some of which are Also honored in the dedication The long list of those who helped further utilized in the Greenville of the new structure were Thomas make the library's present quarters County Library's system of F. Parker and J . W. Norwood, co­ possible includes all who have branches-at Mauldin, Greer, founders of the free library system served through the years as trustees Simpsonville, Fountain Inn and in Greenville. as well as the many ardent workers Travelers Rest. The collections are But as Miss Estellene P. Walker, in the Friends of the Library or­ also circulated in the library librarian of the South Carolina ganization. However, as State Sen. system's five bookmobiles. State Library, said at the dedication Thomas A. Wofford said at the Librarian Charles Stow points ceremony, "This new building is ground breaking ceremonies July out that this year the library is not a monument, it's a very lively 30, 1968, "Behind every institution adding from 1,200 to 1,500 items affair ... and it is evidence of a is the shadow of one man. Had it monthly to its collections. "And lively community, too." In her re­ not been for Frederick W. Symmes, people found out when we got marks she termed the new library we would not be here today." spread around in the new building "a magnificent tool with which to that there were a lot more books achieve better library services." Lucille B. Green is a staff writer for than they thought we had when we Chairman of the building com- The Greenville News.

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Pooh Corner-Greenville's beautiful new shop for Washington East is the perfect move for a male to children. From layettes to size 7 for boys-14 for make who is up to here with the old square Ivy look. girls. Christening, school, and party clothes. A dis­ The shop features a great selection of action back criminating selection of books and records. and knit suits, long point collar shirts, knit, trousers TOYS and fabulous Christmas gifts for men. Christmas is coming. 904~onSt. 1012 E. Washington St. Pooh ( :orncr ~ ~ ~