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A call from Mr. Francis W. Bilo deau, Director of the Gibbes Art Gallery in Charleston, South Caro lina, prompted my attention to the second paragraph of Mrs. Lucille B. Green's fine article on our museum Possibly the most beautiful sideboard we have ever offered on page nine of your January 1971 a masterpiece by Kaplan-the wood is mahogany banded with issue .... stainwood. The center drawer is partitioned for silver and My remarks to Mrs. Green were the simulated tambour deep drawer is a noteworthy feature. "although the Charleston Museum The solid brass splash rail is optional. Available only in our was the first established in the Connoisseur's Gallery of fine furniture. nation, Charleston's art exhibitions have, for years, been held in the Gibbes Gallery." Mrs. Green, who was with the Charleston News and Courier for @ting!~~cf'~ (Continued on page 6) 2 Sand lap per THE MAGAZINE sandl apper.
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(Continued from page 2) seven years, and I are both well aware that the collections of the Charleston Museum have not been NEXT MONTH IN relocated.
Jack A. Morris Jr. SANDLAPPER Director Greenville County Museum of Art Greenville, South Carolina
Recently, while going through some family things, I came across an excerpt from my grandfather's COAST AL SPORTFISHING diary. By Dean Poucher He states that he was born July 10, 1840, in the "Lexington Dis trict of South Carolina, a few miles from what was known as the White Church-a Lutheran Church." He describes this as being "between the forks of the Broad River and Clem's Creek. The County where I was born was called the Dutch Fork, as there were a good many of that race of people living there." He states that he was delivered by a DUTCH BELL Dutch woman, a Granny Epps, a FOUNDRY midwife. He further states: "The house that I was born in was a two AT GREENWOOD story Log house with a [20 or 30] By foot hall, with shed runs in on one Beth Ann Klosky side along end and below chimney at each end of house built out of rock with fireplace along end. Be- 1ow was a house built by my Father's friend before the Revolu tion and was hired by my Father, BOB BRYANT: ROCK HILL A VIATOR William Morehead, together with a By Harper Gault good large tract of land." He goes Also- on to describe the movements of Introducing a new monthly feature in Sandlapper, his family until about 1850 when South Carolina History Illustrated they settled in Alabama. First Offering: Upon checking my atlas, I learn In the "Hellhole of Secession" that there really is a community with Gen. Judson Kilpatrick known as "Dutch Fork," but that it is in Richland County, which may be very close to the county, or dis CALENDAR OF EVENTS trict line. Could you ... place me in touch with some person or or • Art • Theatre • Tours ganization knowing the history of your area, with whom I might cor • Music • Sports • Fairs respond? I have searched for a long • Lectures • Dance • Horse Shows time for this bit of information, and it may lead me on backward to my grandfather's parentage.
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March 1971 7 THE TOWN IS FORGOTTEN:
ll right, class, two questions for of coastal Carolina. It is now owned 28- by 42-foot living room. Visitors today: What was the second by a pert five-foot-two, dark-haired, who enter the foyer on a rainy day Aoldest town established in highly animated Hutton historian put their umbrellas into an elephant South Carolina by the Lords Pro named Eileen Dryer. She has "no foot at the base of the central prietors? Arid what has it to do idea how many times-thousands of stairway. with a celebrated "million-dollar them-I've been asked about Bar Barbara's boudoir, a long rec baby from the five and ten cent bara Hutton," she says. The two tangle brightened with morning store"? ladies, however, have never met. glory wallpaper, contains twin beds, Chances are you're familiar with But New London falls considerably her much-photographed chaise the story of pre-jet setter Barbara short of being a topic of equal in lounge and several other articles of Hutton who inherited a mint of terest. furniture normally expected in nickels and dimes from her grand Visitors by the thousands "ooh" milady's room. It is unoccupied daddy F.W. Woolworth. But if the and "aah" through the 30-plus now. Mrs. Dryer and her staff use name New London rings a bell with rooms of the five-level plantation other rooms for their quarters, al you, then you've really been doing home. Mrs. Dryer has no estimate though before the death of her your homework. of the number of female visitors husband Herman, in 1962, they The much-married Miss Hutton is who have had their photos snapped shared the massive swamp-cypress still prominent in the news. But while sitting on the imported white paneled bedroom formerly occu New London, which once sat on satin chaise lounge in Barbara's pied by Mr. Hutton. the sloping banks of the Edisto room on the uppermost level. The mansion is located at Will River 28 miles southeast of The antique edifice sits just off town Bluff near the point where present-day Walterboro, was quietly U.S. 17, south of where it intersects Colleton and Charleston counties established soon after Charles Town with S.C. 64 at Jacksonboro in abut. It was here in 1682 that the and just as quietly faded into for Colleton County. Several huge road Lords Proprietors directed the gotten history. signs, saying simply "Hutton Plan establishment of a town 12 years Now, the two come together-a tation" and pointing the direction after Charles Town was founded. glamour girl and a ghost town. A by arrow, appear to be all the en By 1708 as many as 80 houses may baronial plantation home, built on ticement the tourist traffic requires. have been scattered about the area the site of the deserted town in the "They know only one Hutton-and and it became variously known as mid-1700s caused their paths to that's Barbara," Mrs. Dryer happily New London, Willtown and Wil cross when it became a home reports. town, with the latter names drawn away-from-home for the peripatetic The ground-floor walls are lined from the reigning King William of slim blonde. with dozens of animal trophies that England. Miss Hutton has departed, now Barbara's father, Franklyn L. The history of New London is just as the town is gone. But be Hutton, and relatives bagged on obscure. Some historians doubt cause Miss Hutton stayed there so worldwide hunting expeditions. that there were actually 80 houses often, her old plantation home has Twenty-five huge heads and several there; most agree that there were become a prime tourist attraction entire animals grace the walls of the certainly some 50 or 60. The orig-
8 Sandlapper BUTA LATTER-DAY MANSION IS STILL NEWS By Tom Hamrick
inal town plat, preserved in the country showplace for himself and among the guests at the mansion. state archives, indicates that early a battalion of friends and relatives. In 1940 Hutton died and was planners expected a deluge of Mrs. Dryer claims Barbara Hutton laid in state before the fireplace in settlers. Some of the old founda spent much of her time there, the huge living room. It was at this tions are still visible near the occasionally with one of the seven time that the mansion lost the in Hutton house, and treasure hunting husbands she eventually collected. terest of Barbara and the Buttons. is frequently rewarded with a Local neighborhood gossip has it It went on the block in 1942 and number of artifacts of limited that Cary Grant, a husband at one passed through several hands before value-broken pottery, vases and point in her marital career, was being acquired by the Dryers in the like. Several graves of early American vintage are also in the area. New London died in infancy. The Lords Proprietors had hoped to establish a second port of trade and a rural settlement to serve the ex panding planting industry. But as Charles Town grew, New London shrank, ultimately surrendering it self to the appetite of the jungle like growth of coastal Carolina. The plantation house was built in the middle 1700s as the home of a prosperous rice planter. When Mrs. Dryer first saw it, it had already become the property of Franklyn L. Hutton, who bought it in 1929 when the financial world was crash ing. Mrs. Dryer has been told he spent a half-million dollars refur bishing it as a South Carolina
The trophy-embellished living room impresses visitors with its size ( 1,000-plus square feet) and assorted Hutton family memorabilia.
March 1971 9 1952. During the period of several to be the combination bar, game Right: Surrounded by the trappings short ownerships, much of its tall and gun room in the east wing. of an international sportsman, pine timber was sliced away by a Until Mrs. Dryer secured the room's two tourists inspect a mantel and magnolia-filled fireplace. lumber firm, but the forest acreage display of four dozen old flintlocks, has since regrown. Although the matchlocks and pistols behind glass original Hutton estate spilled over and chain, tourists stole two of the some 6,000 acres, the Dryers rifles and eight of the pistols, "se ground floor, in addition to gun bought only a tenth of the total. lecting the most valuable," she says. room and living room, are a big From the brick columned gates The weapons date to 1500. Before solarium-basked to spring-like of entry to the front of the Hutton bought it, the gun room warmth on cold days through its mansion, visitors drive a half mile had been the kitchen of the pre multi-windowed ceiling and walls-a under a canopy of moss which Revolutionary home and the big wood-paneled library, a poolroom hangs limply from a sentry line of combination fireplace-oven still (perhaps Hutton termed it a billiard oaks bordering the oyster shell dominates one wall of the chamber. room), a dining room, a servants' graveled roadway. It is beamed in heavy oak and has a dining room, a butler's pantry as The exterior of the house is de white plaster ceiling. It is much like large as most kitchens, and a ceptive. It appears to contain three walking into a kitchen in old Eng kitchen. floors at most; actually there are land. Some tourists rush through in 30 five interior levels. The lower half is The long, narrow ground floor minutes; others stay and gawk for old English brick; the upper is can be entered by the front foyer the greater part of a day. In cold cypress, painted white. Twelve or from the 150-yard-deep lawn on weather, the roaring fire in the liv windowed gables jut from its the living room side at the "rear." ing room is a favorite gathering cypress-shingled roof. Visitors seeing the building from point. Second to Barbara's boudoir, the rear often compare it with It must have been truly a swing visitors find the greatest attraction Mount Vernon. Occupying the ing place when Hutton owned it. His fishing and boat docks are still there but the skeet range and shoot ing tower he set up have been lost to decay. Hunting was one of his great pleasures, and the estate still abounds in game, including wild turkeys. Alligators are not strangers to the fish-rich Edisto River which meanders in front of the house. Although thousands of dollars worth of antiques are scattered about the house, one of Mrs. Dryer's most prized possessions cost her only $4.50. It is a four foot-high mahogany Seth Thomas calendar clock dating to 187 4. She picked it up in a junk shop in Walterboro-"you don't find bar gains like that anymore"-and then spent $75 to have it repaired. "Dur ing a moment of weakness when a man wanted to buy it, I sold it for $200. But his wife hated it so much I bought it back for the same price." She says she has "no in tention of ever parting with it again." Although visitors are met by a staff member, Mrs. Dryer joins Mrs. Dryer (left) and a guest discuss an odd-shaped piece of pottery in the solarium of the Hutton mansion. Other ground-floor rooms include a green room, living room, every greeting party, even if mo library, billiard room, dining room, servants' dining room, butler's pantry and kitchen. mentarily. The second anyone asks
10 Sand lap per about Barbara Hutton, however, diately." of all ages are "taking an increasing she's available as resident expert. The lumber firm which then interest in history. Northerners I She and her late husband were orig owned it, after cropping its timber meet seem as interested in our inally Charlestonians. They moved "found itself with a white elephant Southern history as Southerners to a wide place on U.S. 17 called and happily sold it to us." Mrs. are." The same is frequently true of Adams Run (five miles from Will Dryer, her husband and several foreign visitors she has welcomed town Bluff) during World War II to aides spent six months restoring it "from just about every country you enter the moss business. The moss, sufficiently to welcome tourist can imagine." All things considered, pulled from trees and kiln-dried, business. she is assuredly most pleased that was used in upholstering furniture. In addition to touring parties, Barbara Hutton hasn't lost her mag Their business disappeared when Mrs. Dryer occasionally takes in netism as a drawing card. chemically manufactured stuffing overnight visitors. She also plays Now one last question, class, was developed after the war. "But hostess at parties for groups num before you're dismissed: Who do by then we had already decided we bering to 100 persons. "Submarine you think Eileen Dryer would most wanted to buy the Hutton Plan crews from Charleston seem to like like to meet some day? tation as a tourist business," she it here," she observes. says. "Our friends thought we were Mrs. Dryer is "awfully pleased" Lt. Col. USA (Ret.) Tom Hamrick nuts and would go broke imme- that growing num hers of Americans is from Mt. Pleasant.
March 1971 11 DevilS Day at Dutqh-,Fork .u Y.:~ '-\\t- , ), { By Julian Mims .
utch Fork, the area between the ments among the settlers. The industry and ingenuity and soon Broad and Saluda rivers which winter of 1760-61 brought claims made progress in taming the wilder Dmakes up the lower third of of divine revelation, intense reli ness. By 1748, they were grate present Newberry County, derived gious fanaticism and premeditated fully thanking the colonial assembly its name from the "Deutschers" murder-it was the Devil's day in for raising them from their de who settled there in the mid-18th Dutch Fork! pressed condition in Germany. century. It is said that many of As early as 1704, the Lords Pro The provincial government in these people clung to the German prietors were planning to bring in Charleston was only too happy to language well into the 1800s. Even immigrants from Germany, an in have the land occupied, for this now, 200 years after the first Ger flux which really started with the provided a first line of defense man arrivals, the region still retains organization of the township plan. across the path of the Cherokees. some of its distinctiveness. Saxe-Gotha township, consisting of Accordingly, the government of Today, the thought of Dutch most of present Lexington County fered the 200-or-so inhabitants Fork brings to mind an image of southwest of the Saluda and the great license, but little support. old farms and hospitable people, a Congaree, was first settled by Because of more pressing matters, quiet refuge from the noise of near Germans and Swiss in 1735. As the education and religion on the fron by urban areas. Quaint and peaceful better Saxe-Gotha lands were taken tier were neglected by the pioneers Dutch Fork has not always been so up, settlers moved northward into and by their government over a tranquil, however, for in its early Dutch Fork. The "Deutschers" ap hundred miles away. The "four years there were strange develop- plied their German attributes of R's" (if one includes religion) were
12 Sand lap per quite secondary to sheer self-preser lessness, worldliness and indif Saxe-Gotha for over 50 years begin vation in a quarter which, according ference" came to characterize the ning in 1739. Learning of the activ to D.D. Wallace's South Carolina: A people of Dutch Fork. The Council ities of the Weberites, he came un Short History, was vulnerable to In Journal of South Carolina informs expectedly into their midst, finding dian marauders from as far north as us that even Gov. James Glen com Jacob Weber contending that he central New York. plained of the lawless settlers about was the deity and that the uncon The gratitude of the erstwhile the Congarees and on Broad River. verted members must be healed Germans to their Low-Country It was among such disadvantaged through him. Because Pastor Theus government soon diminished. In Swiss and German settlers that the opposed their blasphemy, the en 1 7 5 2 certain Saxe-Gothans pro phenomenon known as the Weber raged leaders threatened his life, tested the unfairness of paying tax Heresy arose. The probable location pausing only to decide whether he to support the established church, was along the Saluda River near should be drowned or hanged. while they were given no churches what was known as Y ounginer's Apparently, only the intervention or ministers. Two years later on the Ferry. Details of the aberration are of a benevolent Negro enabled Broad River in Dutch Fork, there clouded by conflicting accounts Theus to escape. were complaints "for the want of and surviving sources are almost en The delusion continued un teaching and preaching." Such tirely secondary. Yet the basic out abated, excess following excess, pleas, however, fell on deaf ears; lines of this occurrence point to until the inevitable occurred-dis the lack of intellectual and spiritual what may be one of the most ex sension arose with the worldly trin training soon contributed to an out traordinary religious experiences in ity. "God the Son" seems to have landish episode which shocked the colonial America south of the differed with the godhead on some whole Carolina colony. Salem witch trials. points of doctrine. The pretended Germans, according to Carl Being "destitute of ministerial in "Father," having quarreled with the Bridenbaugh in his study of the struction," certain parties of the lo "Son," repudiated him, stating that South Atlantic backcountry, cality agreed to assemble from time he was not the "Son" at all, but tended to be "deeply pious, tem to time for singing, prayer and Satan instead; and unless he was perate and devoted to the social scripture reading. One of them, a put to death the world would not ideal of a well-ordered society." prosperous and pious Switzer, be saved. The misguided followers, But certain Germans in frontier Jacob Weber (Wiever or Weaver) at the direction of their leaders, South Carolina were about to cause began to preach "out of spirit" so chained Peter Schmidt and with all the good German reputation in marvelously that his admiring the rage of religious persecution their locale to be questioned. They neighbors considered him divinely beat him to death without remorse. were labeled as misfits from other inspired. Riding the crest of their That took care of the Devil; the provinces who "gravitated together adoration, Weber was soon imper pretended "Holy Ghost" next re and conformed in unsuccess." A sonating Christ and exalting his ceived the wrath of the "Al few of their number, apparently un wife Hannah as the "Virgin Mary." mighty." In order to eradicate him, willing to work, were charged with Two others of the "Sect of Enthu the group placed the luckless fellow stealing horses and cattle. Pastor siasts" claimed "most extraordinary in bed, covered him with pillows Belzius of Ebenezer, Georgia, de revelations." Weber joined with and stamped on him until he suf nounced Saxe-Gothans as a "filthy them to form a triumvirate. He was focated. They then threw his corpse group, spiritually wretched." Some proclaimed "God the Father," one onto a burning pile of wood, to be of the area deplored the vices of Peter Schmidt ( or John George consumed to ashes. Of all the sect's their neighbors, deeming them "a Smith Peter) "God the Son," and hierarchy, only the "Virgin Mary" conflux of several nations of the another named Dauber, a "godless seems to have escaped the purge of Poorest, undisciplined and Ignorant colored preacher," "God the Holy the pretended deity. sort of mankind, not used to Spirit." This mundane trinity Provincial law finally ground into Liberty, being ... apt to Injure brought the delusion to a frenzy. action. Perpetrators of the crimes each other and live without instruc Members of both sexes "went were taken to Charleston and tried. tion and Die without comfort." An about uncovered and naked and Weber was found guilty of the dual account in D.D. Bernheim's history practiced the most abominable murders of Feb. 23 and 24, 1761, of the Lutheran Church in the wantonness." The sect attained and was condemned to the gallows. Carolinas relates "the people are such supremacy that several Also convicted were Hannah Weber, wild and continue to grow wilder, families united with the Weberites John Geiger and Jacob Bourghart. for what does it profit them to hear for fear of their lives. In a letter to William Pitt, Lt. Gov. a sermon every four, six or twelve The Rev. Christian Theus, al William Bull, noting their poverty, weeks if in early youth the foun though he lived near the Congarees, their large families, and their char dation of Divine Truth had not over 25 miles from Dutch Fork, acter "long known as being orderly been laid?" Deserved or not, "shift- endeavored to serve that area and and industrious members of civil
March 1971 13 society," granted a reprieve which minister for heavy drinking and an close to identifying the basic de led to the pardon of the three. Episcopal church complaining of pravity: "If in the commencement In what is claimed to be his con the notorious and immoral char of their settlement the people had fession, April 16, 1761, Jacob acter of its rector. Thomas been blessed with the faithful Weber sketched his mournful life, Woodmason, observer of the back labors of an energetic and intelli blamed all his troubles on his "cor country and rector at what is now gent pastor, doubtless such extrava rupt nature" and "Peter Schmidt, Camden, termed persons interfering gance in religion and morals never the instrument of the Devil," and with his services as the "worst would have been manifested here." asked forgiveness of all those he Vermin on Earth." If the church had properly attended had injured. He beseeched his chil The actions of the Weberites to its people on the frontier, if the dren to "injure no one willingly, should not tarnish the reputation of Charleston government had ended labor industriously, pray without the people, church or area involved. the absence of law and order as the ceasing, and learn and read." As a Their behavior was, to say the least, backcountry itself did with the warning against blasphemy, "the a radical departure from the norm. Regulator movement, if efforts greatest crime known to the law," a Meriwether reminds us that, despite such as the Education Act of 1770 church history carried the full their religious indifference and dis had been successful and had come four-page text of his alleged confes regard for "agents of ecclesiastical sooner, then we would probably sion. authority," the people of the inte have to look elsewhere from the Although Bernheim claims that rior had a remarkably good record. hinterland of colonial South Caro the cult spread north into Virginia How then, do we explain this lina to find such an uncivilized and Maryland, its power in Dutch bizarre backwoods event? What spectacle as that created by Jacob Fork seems to have ended with the could have been done to prevent an Weber and his sect. apprehension of Weber. He states environment wherein a group, in that the English inhabitants of the the name of religion, could sink to Julian L. Mims is supervisor of the area scoffed about the incident and such depths of degradation? The State Archives' County Records said that the Germans had nothing church historian, Bernheim, came Division. to fear for their devil had been killed, and their god had been hanged. Yet the growth of Luther anism must have been adversely af fected for Bernheim laments that
land." The Weberite delusion was not unique. A letter of the noted physi cian Alexander Garden indicates numerous people, black and white, claimed supernatural revelations during the first half of the 18th century. The journals of Bishop ,, Henry . M. Muhlenberg cite two other sects and the Rev. P.A. Strobel, in his history of the Salz bergers at Ebenezer, Georgia, tells the tale of an early 19th-century state legislator and sheriff who set themselves up as the Messiah and John the Baptist. In South Carolina, evil among congregations was not limited to any area or denomination. Robert L . Meriwether, in his excellent study of the backcountry, notes a Baptist congregation suspending a
14 Sandlapper f his family hadn't bet its for in the export trade of the East -Photo by Louis Schwartz tunes on the spice trade in the Indies as a raging fever for quick A diorama by Robert N.W. IFar East, and lost, Francis Sal potential profits from the Far East Whitelaw depicts Salvador's death. vador might have become just an swept through the moneyed halls of other bright and prosperous busi England and the Continent. Provincial congresses of South nessman who spent his life quietly But the promise of the East Carolina in 1775-76. Had there with wife and family in England. Indies proved deceptive. The Sal been a Junior Chamber of Com Instead, at 29, he was butchered vadors, along with hundreds of merce in his day, Salvador would and dead, his body sprawled on a English business counterparts, have been a likely candidate for narrow dirt roadway near a town in watched helplessly as bankruptcy, "Young Man of the Year." South Carolina named Seneca. And bred by poor judgment and over The Second Provincial Congress busy history promptly forgot all speculation, swallowed their bank had placed its stamp of approval about the first Jew to give his life accounts. on the Declaration of Independence for the American cause of freedom. Undaunted by the misfortune of in 1776, thus putting members in Francis Salvador, one of the least his family, young Salvador turned a treasonous position as far as known Sandlapper heroes, was born his eyes to the West and opted for a King George III was concerned. in London in 1747, the scion of a new try, this time in the hinterlands England's ill-humored king, believed prominent and affluent Anglo of South Carolina. His target for by some present-day educators to Jewish family. His parents blessed opportunity was some 6,000 acres have had a rather minimal I.Q. him with the best of schooling and of land near Ninety Six. The hold around 70--held the opinion that the \ tutoring, as was the custom of the ing had been purchased earlier by best place for any Carolina patriot wealthy in England. Then, to sup his father-in-law and an uncle as was at the end of a stiff rope. plement what he had gained from investment property and Salvador Unfrightened, Salvador busied books and lectures, his family pro decided that his gold lay in the crop himself serving as the delegate from vided him an opportunity for ex fields of far-off Carolina. His two Ninety Six, then the second most "" tensive European travel, the finish relatives gave him the go-ahead to populated district in South Caro fi ing school for boys in the 18th try his hand at agriculture and in lina. He was a member of several century. 1773 Salvador set sail for Charles important committees and he be / With a handsome legacy awaiting ton. came closely allied with such prom his adult beck and call, the world History has husbanded relatively inent firebrands of the state as John was all roses for Francis Salvador. few words on the life of Salvador, Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth But the promise of still greater but unquestionably he must have Pinckney and William Henry wealth from investments in the been personable, progressive and Drayton. spice trade with the East Indies popular with the people in the German-speaking George, who caused his bubble to burst. The Sal Ninety Six community. The good never could understand how the vador family plunged deeply into folk in the area elected him a dele colonies bred so many angry young its available finances to buy shares gate to both the First and Second men, would have taken a very dim
March 1971 15 view of Francis Salvador's sitting in fending itself, Salvador saddled up ing the curtained past to create a a key congressional seat. In his Eng and clattered about the countryside well-deserved memorial to Salvador land, it would have been simply un enlisting recruits in a quickly died just as this veil of years was thinkable for a Jew to hold public formed mounted militia. being lifted. office, make laws and, worse, en Maj. Andrew Williamson took Friends say that Thomas J. gage in treason. Merry old England command of the Ninety Six area's Tobias of Charleston, an ex-news wasn't too merry for families of the pioneer-and-farmer cavalry corps. man and community leader, spent Hebrew faith. At best, they were re With Salvador beside him in the many hours researching faded and garded as second-class citizens and lead, he rushed his detachment at a forgotten records to uncover the prohibited by law from holding gallop toward the enemy, reported story of Salvador. Then, as the Jew public office. to be operating somewhere in the ish community of South Carolina By July 1776, the Americans had vicinity of Seneca. prepared to publish the findings severed all ties with England, and The last day Francis Salvador and elevate Salvador to the niche in George William Frederick was hop ever saw was Aug. 1, 1776. The war history he deserves, Tobias was ping mad at the affront. He saw was then only some 600 hours old. like Salvador-visited suddenly by South Carolina not only as one of The first of the thousands of Jews death. the powder kegs which had ex to give their lives for their country, Researching the life and times of ploded in chain reaction, but as a Salvador was cut out of the saddle a Jewish patriot was no new en prime port of entry into the south by rifle fire as the Americans and deavor for Tom Tobias. The well ern half of his rebellious colonies. their horses pounded into a road liked journalist and public relations Revolution had long been in the side ambush set up by a forewarned specialist was awarded an honorary making and the British weren't guerrilla band. degree as Doctor of Humane caught flatfooted by the American A fusillade from behind a split Letters by Hebrew Union College in action. The bell at Independence rail fence and adjacent bushes and 1968-a compliment to his ex Hall in Philadelphia had hardly trees swept the ranks of the tensive exploration and chronicling cracked before the British launched mounted Americans. Among those of American Jewish history. a pincer movement against the Pal first to fall in the initial volley was But Tobias' research had un metto State, designed to knock Francis Salvador. It is doubtful that covered no existing portraits and South Carolina out of the war the young American ever had an Tobias and his associates weren't before the revolution was a month opportunity to fire his own shot in satisfied to let Salvador be entered old. anger before he tumbled to earth into history by words alone. The A British fleet almost imme mortally wounded. answer was a colorful diorama exe diately attacked hastily erected for His comrades, suddenly fighting cuted by Robert N.W. Whitelaw of tifications at Charleston, while a for their lives against a well-con Charleston-a brightly-lit fragment guerrilla force of English-armed cealed enemy, scampered to defen of yesterday capsuled in a box Indians and Tories began a scorched sive positions as Tory and Indian several feet in length and height, earth campaign in the upper half of bullets peppered around them. The showing Salvador slumped in his the state. The British fleet met with fire fight was brief, lasting just an saddle as the guerrilla party blasted no success in its assault on Charles hour, with the Americans finally at the hero and his horse from a ton, as its biggest cannonballs emerging bloodied but victorious. picket fence ambush. bounced off the palmetto log forti When his compatriots gently U.S. Sen. Ernest F. Hollings of fications, but the guerrilla threat in lifted his body, they found that Sal South Carolina was guest of honor upper Carolina seemed to offer a vador had not only been shot but and the main speaker at dedication successful potential. he had also been scalped. Still, he ceremonies marking the first public Sparsely settled, the upper state had fought off death long enough showing of the Salvador diorama was a prime target for a force which to learn that the Americans had last May at the beautiful and mod moved, struck and moved again. won the first battle for the fate of em new Jewish Community Center Hoping to gain converts through interior South Carolina. on the western outskirts of Charles victory, and sweep on into Charles It was at this point that Salvador ton. After its display, the diorama ton as the land prong of an envelop slipped from history, to go unre was transported to the Klutznick ment, the guerrillas involved them membered and unheralded for Exhibit Hall in the B'nai B'rith selves in a campaign of terror-kill almost two centuries. Today, building in Washington, where its ing, looting and burning throughout thanks to the efforts to a group of local sponsors felt it would be more the backcountry. It was the kind of Charlestonians, Francis Salvador is conveniently available to a greater warfare the Indians knew best and being awarded long overdue recog audience. the Tories were good students. nition. Realizing that beleaguered Regrettably, one of the men who Lt. Col. USA (Ret.) Tom Hamrick Charleston had its hands full de- devoted the greatest effort in prob- is from Mt. Pleasant.
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he coastal village of McClellan South Carolina State Hospital, a itself is old. It isn't really. The old ville (population 300 and drop few college professors, several well est houses here are probably the Tping, at last count) curves known county and state politicians, Shore house, built in the mid-1800s around the seafood docks of Jer the head of the State Vocational by a Mr. Whilden, and the DuPre emy Creek like a mother cat curled Rehabilitation Center and a late house, originally built on Echaw around her kittens. Across the blooming painter who took up art Creek and floated down by raft creek are the lush green woods of in her 60s and who recently had a over a hundred years ago, to be Skippers Point, and to the east one-man show in Columbia. placed in its present location on the stretch two or three miles of salt It would be interesting to com bank of Jeremy Creek. A number marshes which insulate the main pare the percentage of McClellan of houses older than these were de land from the Atlantic. On the ville residents who have attended, stroyed at various times by fire-an horizon can be seen the Cape or graduated from, colleges and inevitable happening when one con Romain lighthouse, abandoned universities with that of any other siders the combination of all-wood after years of service to maritime town or city in the wbrld. Few structures, open fireplaces, wood traffic. places would have a higher percent b urning cook stoves and water Located a scant mile off U.S. 17, age. The homes here may be (and supplies far too scanty to fight roughly 40 miles above Charleston usually are) in need of paint, and blazing buildings. And not long ago and 20 below Georgetown, McClel villagers may be wearing last one of the oldest houses in the vil lanville is definitely off the beaten year's-or last decade's-clothes; lage was torn down by its present path. It is visited only by tourists but the village youth who want to owner, a descendant of the original who enjoy exploring out-of-the-way go to college almost always get owners. The dwelling occupied one places, and those who are traveling there, and most of them do well. of the choicest lots in the town, but the Intracoastal Waterway and tarry The road leading to McClellan it was beyond the stage at which briefly for fuel or groceries. ville from U.S. 17 becomes Pinck restoration would be practical. McClellanville boasts no bank, no ney Street, which runs the length of Although the present village is hospital, no garbage collection, no the village. Several blocks over, not particularly old, the area has dentist, no barber, no home de Morrison Street parallels Pinckney been settled since 1721 when a land livery of mail, no beauty parlor, no for part of its length, and these grant was made to one Archibald theatre, no nightclub, no bowling streets, together with six others and McClellan, covering the lower part alley, no golf course, no liquor a few unpaved lanes, make up the of what is now the town of McClel store, no swimming pool, no city town. lanville. The McClellan plantation water, no taxi service, no restau Someone asked a village resident rant, no drugstore, no high school, if her parents lived far from her. no country club-and actually, "Nowhere in McClellanville," she within the city limits, not even a answered truthfully, "is far from service station (though there are anywhere else." several on the highway, a mile The chance visitor here is en away). chanted by the streets which wind There are, inside the town, a post in casual fashion, occasionally di office, an elementary school, a viding to accommodate a tree or grocery store, a hardware store, a two. The moss-draped oaks arch fire station, a telephone company, a over the streets, often meeting, Masonic hall, a laundromat, a vari Gothic-style, overhead-a nightmare ety store, a U.S. Forestry Service to the drivers of the large refrig office, a fish and wildlife refuge erator trucks that come in to pick headquarters, several seafood up local seafood. The tourist, docks, two small parks and three especially if he is fortunate enough churches. to arrive during the flower season, Yet from this tiny town have is charmed by the banks of azaleas come such notables as the present and camellias, the trees literally poet laureate of South Carolina, a strangling in wisteria vines and the longtime mayor of Charleston, a profusion of yellow jessamine and prominent California artist, the Lady Banksia roses. U.S. Consul General to the Nether Most of the houses look old, lands Antilles, the head of the State which makes the uninformed ob Mental Health Commission and the server conclude that the village
18 Sand lap per Two and a half centuries was used to grow cotton. Around owned and occupied by Col. and have left their mark on 1860, Archibald J. McClellan, a Mrs. W.D. Vestal. There are two McClellanville, although descendant of the original owner, Richard Tillia Morrisons living most of the changes have come the slow, sold three lots for $500 each ( a today, and the names Venning, natural way. Such princely sum, in those days) to Toomer, Hibben and Leland still picturesque decay is Steven Doar, Capt. Thomas Pinck appear among local families. evident along the banks ney and a Mr. Manigault. One of McClellanville's more in of the town's major The upper portion of present teresting homes is the small wooden nautical byway, Jeremy Creek, left and above. day McClellanville was originally structure built as a summer home o~ned by a Mr. Matthews, who by Col. Henry Middleton Rut also had a neighboring plantation, ledge-the youngest colonel in the Tibwin, to the south. In 1754 Confederate army, and the father Matthews sold his McClellanville of Archibald Rutledge, South Caro -All photos by Richard Taylor property to Richard Tillia Morri lina's poet laureate. Dr. Rutledge son. Morrison's first wife was a was born in this home on Pinckney Venning; his second a Toomer. A Street, and Col. Rutledge himself later Richard Tillia Morrison was died here. The property is now the father of a daughter, Susannah, owned by Col. and Mrs. Arnold who married a magistrate and Blair of Columbia. school teacher, Judge Hibben In outlying sections there are Leland. This couple built and lived several beautiful plantation homes, in one of the most attractive water though many others-Woodville, El front homes in McClellanville, now Dorado, Indian Field, Romney,
March 1971 19 20 Sand lap per Montgomery, and Palo Alto-were banked with local flowers and the burned. Harrietta and The Wedge church is always packed. After the are now private homes, though no service, which always includes Com longer in the hands of the original munion, is over, a picnic lunch is owners. Fairfield, built in 1766 on set out, and the trunks of the cars the Santee River and still belonging parked along the old King's High to descendants of the builders, is at way open to reveal all manner of present unoccupied. Hampton, the food and drink. home of Archibald Rutledge, a In early days, mail was brought descendant of the original owners, to McClellanville by carriage along remains the epitome of the ante the King's Highway and dropped bellum Southern plantation-with off at the taverns along the road. tall columns, a two-storied ball The taverns derived their names room, secret passages, exquisite from the miles they were distant gardens and a ghost. from Charleston-Seven Mile and And there is the "Brick Church" Fifteen Mile and Twenty-one and on the old Georgetown Highway. Thirty-two. The first official post The church-St. James-Santee Prot office in McClellanville was opened estant Episcopal-was organized in in March 1871, with the afore 1706. The present building was mentioned Judge Hibben Leland as erected in 1768 and served the postmaster. plantation families for many miles McClellanville has been incor around. In 1789 construction porated as a town for less than 50 started on a chapel in the settle years. J.B. Morrison was the first ment of McClellanville; it was com mayor ( or "intendant," a French pleted, and was consecrated on title, which is the official term). Nov. 2, 1790; for many years, regu Elections are held every two years lar services have been held at the for the posts of intendant and chapel, and only one service a year councilmen (four in number); out at the "Brick Church." This ser elections are always held on a De vice, in April, is attended by persons cember Saturday, a fact which from many different places, local often makes the news as an oddity, citizens, individuals who have fam for where else in the country is a ily connections in the village, and municipal election held on a Satur people who have heard of the day? church and who come out of curi Economically, the town is a osity. The windows of the spectacu source of anxiety to those who love larly beautiful old edifice are it. There is no industry to speak of,
Seafood docks, found all along coastal Carolina, are particularly in evidence at McClellanville. At right, a solitary skiff waits for the Jeremy's tide-swollen waters to reinstate its buoyancy.
March 1971 21 Visitors to off-the-beaten-path McClellanville are invariably enchanted by at least two of the town's natural resources: Spanish moss and children.
and little in the way of employ ment which can be offered to young persons who would like to live in the comparative serenity of the village's sheltering oaks. Com mercial fishing is the principal occupation. There are a few farmers, a few merchants, a few teachers. There are also those who work in Georgetown or Charleston and who consider the rigors of their daily treks a small price to pay for being able to live in McClellanville. In recent years, especially since the closing of the high school within the town limits, more and more families have moved away and few newcomers have arrived. The truth of the matter is that McClel lanville is a wonderful place in which to bring up children and a wonderful place to which to retire. Unfortunately, it offers little for those in the middle, those working to bring up their families. There is always the hope, however, that something will tum up to provide jobs for the people who would like to live there and that the town will be revitalized economically. Until then, the handful of inhab itants will continue to welcome vis itors and share with them the rustic beauty of the marsh, the shrimp trawlers, the trees and the river which characterize the village.
Sally Graham (the pen name of Sara Badger Graham) lives in McClellanville and is a staff writer for the Georgetown Times.
Sand lap per i:':: '.a:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 6':: t I -:r Palmetto Quiz y i ·=··=··=··=··=··=··=··=··=··=··=··=··=··=··=··:.. :••: ..:••!··=··=··!··=··=·.:••: .. ; .. ; .. :.. :••!••!••!••:.. ; .. ; .. : .. :••!··=··=··=··=··=·.:••:••!••!••!••:••!••!••!••!·++{· 1. Founder of Winthrop College. A. T.J. Robertson B. D.B. Johnson C. Jonathan Wright
2. The Lords Proprietors felt that --- would be the best source of profit from Carolina. A. agriculture B. fur trade C. lumber
3. The tide of the American Revolution was turned with a victory at A. Cowpens B. Kings Mountain C. Camden
4. Charles I of England first granted Carolina to --- . A. Joseph H. Earle B. Lord Dows C. Sir Robert Heath Charles E. Ellis School Girls, grades 7-12. Fully accredited. 5. Native name for part of the present coastal North and South Caro College prep, art, music, home ec. lina. Small classes. Individual guidance. A. Chicora B. Datha C. Coronaca 300-acre campus, modern buildings, suburban Philadelphia. Excellent li brary & well-equipped classrooms. 6. Famous surgeon from Lancaster, South Carolina. Separate dorms for younger girls. A. John Floyd B. Richard Jefferies C. Marion Sims Sports, riding. Gymnasium. Estab lished 1910. Write for catalog. 7. Founder of The State, a Columbia newspaper. Dr. C. Gordon Frantz, President A. Gonzales B. Roper C. Joynes Newtown Square, Pa. 19073 8. The "park bench statesman" was - - - . A. Andrew Johnson B. James Byrnes C. Bernard Baruch
9. Organization founded to provide relief for veterans of the Revolution O.T.E and to make South Carolina more democratic. A. Palmetto Society B. Wilkes Club C. The Mechanics DISTRIBUTORS 10. Amount of taxes required in early 1700s for a townsman to vote. A. 9 shillings B. 20 shillings C. 12 shillings
11. Permitted officers of the crown to search the homes and businesses SERVICE of the colonists without a warrant. A. Declaratory Act B. Townshend Act C. Regulative Act JJ EDUCATION ~ 12. South Carolina's principal natural resource is --- . A. farm land B. granite C. forests MODERN REFERENCE LIBRARY 13. With the foundation started by an Aiken schoolteacher, - - - was I SCIENCE FIELD PUBLICATIONS started for young people. A. Brownies B. 4-H club C. Y Teens NEGRO HERITAGE LIBRARY CHILD GUIDANCE LIBRARY 14. Charleston had the first --- in the United States. AND OTHER CHILDREN'S BOOKS A. schoolhouse B. manual labor school C. opera performance LISTEN-LEARN WITH PHONICS
15. Recognized as first native born sculptor. Complete listing upon request. A. John Cogdell B. Stephen Miller C. Paul Hamilton P.O. Box 6256 ANSWERS: Columbia, S.C. 29206 1. 8 4. C 7. A 10. 8 13. 8 2. A 5. A 8. C 11. 8 14. C 3. 8 6. C 9. A 12. A 15. A
March 1971 23 AMETHYST
THE OFFICIAL GEMSTONE AND STONE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
By Nancy C. Yates
24 Sand lap per ince ancient days the amethyst has held a fascination for all who Sgazed into its purple depths. The South Carolina General Assembly, also succumbing to its magic, en acted a law declaring the amethyst prI to be the official gemstone of I South Carolina. This law was signed by Gov. Robert McNair on June 24, -- . 1969. ~-- Although classified as a semi - precious stone, the amethyst or I·""'- purple quartz is the highest priced of all the principal quartz gems when faceted. Traces of manganese and titanium give it a purple hue which is unevenly distributed throughout the stone. It is generally thought that stones from greater .I. depths in the earth are of deeper purple color. ~--~J I Large, flawless amethysts of fine color are rare and have been used I' with more expensive stones in crown jewelry, church reliquaries and crosiers and particularly in bishops' rings. Thus comes the term "bishop grade" for the very finest and deepest stones of pure purple. When a stone is cut, care must be taken to place the deeper color at the bottom so that it will shed its tint throughout the stone. As with other gems used in an cient times, the origin of the ame thyst is accounted for by a classical myth. Diana, goddess of the woods, slighted Bacchus, god of wine. Seeking revenge, Bacchus swore that the first person he met in the forest would be devoured by his w'ild boars. A beautiful young
Left: Amethyst crystals freshly removed from the vein at Due West. The largest crystal is 100 per cent top grade faceting material. Right: A Fairfield County quarry. Blue granite from Fairfield mines is nationally known as "the silk of the trade." -Photo by Ernest Ferguson
March 1971 25 maiden named Amethyst was on Confessor and other members of with clean sharp faces and the rich her way to worship in Diana's English royalty wore the stone for purple color admired by gem col temple when she met Bacchus on that reason. lectors. the path. As the beasts sprang, A particularly fine vein of ame Today the Williams family is still Amethyst called to the goddess to thyst runs near Due West, South mining the meadow. First they protect her and was instantly Carolina. In the late 1800s George must pump out the water, then changed into a sparkling, white Washington Carver, the famous they wade about in a sea of muck, stone image. Bacchus was ashamed, Negro scientist, visited Erskine Col carefully probing for pockets of and in atonement he poured his lege in that town. When shown amethyst. Experience has taught favorite wine over the crystalline some amethyst crystals, he asked to them to plaster any new-found figure and changed the color of the be taken to the site where they specimens with clay before expos stone to purple. were found, and was escorted to a ing them to the atmosphere. Ame In Roman days, the amethyst swampy, spring-filled meadow. He thysts are extremely fragile and was thought to be a cure for drunk made plans to return for a visit in sensitive to sudden temperature and enness. Just how that belief arose is the future, but the plans never pressure changes, and a specimen a mystery, but it has been suggested materialized. cannot be examined until the clay that some of the larger crystals may Years later, a member of the dries and can be gently brushed have been fashioned into wine gob E.A. Williams family of Iva became away. lets for the Romans. Thus, when a interested in the story and pains One Due West specimen found servant saw his master drinking too takingly traced the land transfers by the Williams family is displayed much, he could easily water down in Abbeville County until he found in the Smithsonian Institution as the wine in such a vessel and the the approximate location. One day color would not give away the sub on a field trip he caught sight of a stitution. purple, shiny crystal protruding Left: Luther Robert Dietz and amethyst prospector T.H . Williams wade through In England the purple gem was from the surrounding clay. It was the Williams family mine at Due West. thought to be a protection against his long-sought-after treasure-a This site was once visited by the famous contagious disease; Edward the large amethyst, perfectly terminated, scientist, George Washington Carver.
-Photo by Thomas Campbell
26 Sandlapper one of the best amethyst specimens found in the United States. Other South Carolina locations where amethysts have been found are Jonesville, Cross Keys, Antreville, Iva, Blacksburg and Lake Secession. The same law which made the amethyst the official gemstone named granite as the official stone of South Carolina. Granite is a visibly crystalline, coarse-grained igneous rock, the product of the slow cooling and solidification of liquid rock. Its essential minerals are feldspar and quartz. The latter mineral commonly occurs in glassy, rough grains which are usually colorless, but in rare instances they have a bluish tinge which may be imparted to the rock as a whole. Winnsboro quarries are famous for the blue granite found there. Stumphouse Tunnel near Wal halla was hewn through solid gran ite. At the time of its construction it was the longest on the Blue Ridge Railroad and the longest in the United States. After the project was abandoned, some of the stone was used for construction throughout the area, including the Tamassee DAR School. Granite has long been used as a WE'D RATHER ASK YOUR PATIENCE than lose building stone because of its homo your respect for Jack Daniel's Whiskey. geneous texture, pleasing appear ance, great strength and workabil You see, we still smooth out our product with an old ity. Perhaps the best-known granite building in the state is the state Tennessee process called charcoal mellowing. It's the capitol in Columbia. Most of the step that makes so many friends for Jack Daniel's, but, granite, excavated largely by slave labor, was hauled by wagon from unfortunately, it's one of the Granby quarry, until a three-mile things that limits the amount railroad was specially constructed CHARCOAL in 1857 to facilitate handling the we can make. So, if you find MELLOWED granite. The partially completed Jack Daniel's hard to get some building was shelled by Sherman's 6 artillery in February 1865. Four times, it's only because we're DROP shells landed inside the new making it the way you like it. 6 structure, but little damage was BY DROP done, except for destruction of Charcoal mellowed. And because materials piled on the grounds. we'd rather hope for your
Nancy Coleman Yates is a free-lance patience than lose your respect. writer from Spartanburg. TENNESSEE WHISKEY• 90 PROOF BY CHOICE ©1970, Jack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow, Prop., Inc. DISTILLED AND BOTTLED BY JACK DANIEL DISTILLERY• LYNCHBURG (POP. 384) , TENN.
March 1971 27 Nature's Litt e Singers
By Irwin Ross
ny motorist who has driven predators as he floats on the sur termittent song which is to con along the open highways of the face. tinue for the next two months. ASoutheast on a balmy night in Even if predators were able to At first the sound from the March knows the sudden high see him, the Crossbearer might pass swamp is hesitant and broken. The pitched crescendo of sound that undisturbed, for he is unbelievably first arrivals sing somewhat timidly, betokens a swamp along the road small; he could sit comfortably on as if conscious of their tiny size. side. Even passengers on a speeding your thumbnail. The weight of such Day by day, however, new frogs train may hear the shrill chorus of a small body will not register on any arrive and take up the chorus, and myriad pipings above the roar of but the most delicate scales. Ten or the song becomes steadier and the wheels. more may weigh only an ounce. lustier. As the days pass, the chorus Ask the traveler what causes the This little frog is anything but becomes one constant torrent of sound, however, and he will likely small in voice, however. In the high, shrill sound, pouring out of shrug his shoulders. "Birds," or throat region is a thin air sac which the swamp with such volume that "some kind of insect," are the communicates with the mouth the individual songs are lost. usual replies. cavity through tiny openings. When It would seem as if nothing could Unless he knows the origin of the he is about to sing, the throat sac still the sound of the peepers. In trilling song, the listener is not becomes enlarged like a translucent fact, if we were to shout ourselves likely to attribute it to a frog. But bubble, serving as a small but ef hoarse, it would have little effect. frog it is-one of America's smallest fective resonance chamber. But let the shadow of a hawk streak amphibians. Indeed, one of the The high-pitched sound pro across the pond and the chorus is world's tiniest vertebrate animals duced is so penetrating that this stopped instantly. Or let a muskrat the diminutive spring peeper. little one-tenth-ounce midget can crawl up the bank where half a Some museum-goers have seen be heard for half a mile. If human dozen songsters are piping, and these little creatures preserved in voices were in the same proportion they will immediately flatten them jars, but few have seen them alive. to our size, a man weighing 160 selves against their perches, silent Yet their song is as emblematic of pounds could be heard 12,800 and watchful. spring as the call of the first robin miles away. The exuberant song will not long or the shy nod of the first violet. As soon as the frozen grip of be quiet, however. Life runs too If you were to look right at a winter begins to relax, these restless strongly in these little creatures to spring peeper in his native habitat, little songsters come out of hiber be denied expression for more than chances are that you would never nation, seeking open spots where a few minutes. Soon one, more ven see him. Ranging in color from a the sun is warmest and where there turesome than the rest, gives forth a deep chestnut brown to a light tan, may be a small spring pond. They querulous call, as if to inquire if all he clings tightly to a reed or twig, hop over the forest floor and the is well. Almost instantly, two or alert and motionless, blending per meadowland, guided by a sure sense three others answer from nearby, fectly with his surroundings. which draws them in the direction and their call is taken up by still Once we see him, however, we of water. Often they may sing as others until the swamp is once note that he has a pronounced X or they go, but the real chorus does again a riot of sound. cross on his back, running diagon not begin until they are in the Why does the spring peeper, like ally from left shoulder to right hip swamp. most toads and frogs, go through and from right shoulder to left hip. One by one they slip into the his strange migration to the swamps This has led scientists to give him water, which is sometimes so cold and back to dry land? The imme the name of Hyla crucifer-the that small pieces of ice may still be diate answer, of course, is that the Crossbearer. Turn this little frog floating in it. Undaunted by the eggs must be produced and ferti over and his whitish underparts give frigid temperature, they climb on a lized in water. But the underlying him away at once. This coloration bit of leaf or grass half out of the drive behind it harks back to a protects him from underwater water and launch into the shrill, in- primeval era.
28 Sand lap per Careful reading of the fossil his ponds and the buds of the pussy swing through its orbit and spring tory of the rocks indicates that the willows show gray, he begins to stir has again arrived. first vertebrates to make the epic and soon his exultant piping is change from life in the water to again heard in the swamps. It is a Dr. Irwin Ross is a free-lance writer existence on land were creatures sign that the earth has made a full from Chicago. which had many of the character istics of present-day amphibians. Regarded by scientists as primitive fish-like forms, they roamed the steaming forests and were able to exist in the thin, inhospitable, changeable veil of air, rather than the enveloping, cushioning water. They grew more and more specialized as time passed, but were never able to break completely the tie which bound them to an exist ence in the water. The parents were compelled to return to lay their eggs in the water, and the young passed their early existence there. Today the little spring peeper, distant descendant of these primi tive forms, still follows the same dim urge. Spurred by the hospitable rays of early spring sunshine, he hurries to the swamps to fulfill his mission. During the summer and fall, he wanders about in the cool woods or the brushland near a swamp, catch ing insects and other small creatures which are his diet. Although his tiny gold-flecked eyes apparently see quite well, they can distinguish ,\ ,1 only moving prey, and so he eats / . , · < .!!"f.t'1.. . , only living insects. . \ r,:_: ,·;· ( :1 ~( '•/ I' I . Peculiar sticky discs on the ends I ftli/ \\f'"'.i:i:.M.. \ /~~~tr· 11 ,t .i of the toes enable the peeper to :?/< .1.! f r··:'> \ \}' . r~; . ~ 1:~ l :f I iJ ·" 1, 7,1.b' J, ~ { ,, ·'l climb stems and branches, and he J.l -51' J! ~A }: 1'·, ).!:LJ.ii/,: may be seen many feet above the l ~I :; l , I (:~-.,/? l 8/\ ,"I~ -,. ' ground. If we touch one of -these ii~\: 1 \ !· ~, 1· ~(' l /',/ '\ ., tJ ~ •'1 l 1 ,JI. iii , f little fellows on his branch he .· t I 1 • ...... , • ; we disturb hrm too much, however, -r";f~;,t.~ • • • --- -""t' ··· ·-- J · ,.,:;i::,,·" ·.'. ·• .1;,,,7· h e WI· 11 1aunc h h'Imse lf Ill· t O th e arr,· ·" · . ~.;,,., wig,~~ • ,!a:a, ·-I ---~-• -. ~..,,....._ - ·~ ~ f'{J' " , .. ~.... ' . [ landing on the ground unhurt. .Al'' rn-- "·..,.- ·,.;, ··,.• ·"~-·---- . ... ~- ~\~ Like all other frogs, the Hyla is .... . _.. .•• ,.,..., -~;, --."~ ~. unable to maintain a constant body -,,.r~:-'."~~ .··., .... ~ •' .- _.. - .:., ! ~ j heat, and goes into hibernation ...._...,~.4,_~-,-~;:.._...."'-'..,~''"•w ~,lii!-:ffl.,.\fWl fflf •}t with the onset of winter. Warm · .=-:, : . ,_.~; ., ,t~:C,,~:1W.!i.\ '.. ·_ ·- r ~- •• • . ~ ~ . ·.. ~ ~-•· N--~.'. '•••-""""'- ~1 days may call him forth for a few ·-'~- ,.. -;:: .. .,,;;"r~,;::~~W:'$•il:h.i••'-'"'- ,.. -,_ :~i· brief hours during a January tha~, ,. ~f · ·--·~- · -~~~""~ but he soon goes back to his ~:-"· ,",.,, ....•·--r¥lf ~,_,.,-,~.:,:...,;.,.-.... . ··"· slumbers, out of reach of the killing r.. ~1l( ,\: ··" ... ~.·.~.'·"·-···· frost. / ;\ ~\,:; •·. ~.,,. ... But when the ice melts from the . ,; 1 ~-~r: ,--· ~
March 1971 29 By Tom McElwee LICENSE PLATES FROM EVERYWHERE AND WAY BACK
lmost every object strikes some from his "innate pack rat instincts" sole traffic light. Then we would one somewhere as worthy of which compel him "to collect and descend upon the hapless travelers Abeing collected. The automobile keep anything that there are more and implore them to send us their license plate is by no means an ex than two of." plates when they expired. We'd ception. Reminiscing how as a boy in hand them cards with our names Tom Pruitt, a Ware Shoals native Ware Shoals he and a fellow col and addresses on them." now in the real estate business in lector first went about amassing In order to obtain a tag from Columbia, has since his boyhood tags, he recalls, "Joe Jones and I each state, the young collector days been a devotee of the hobby would stand at the overhead bridge, wrote governors, who in most cases of tag collecting. Pruitt says he the railroad overpass not far from sent samples-regular metal plates started his accumulation about my house, and trust that fate would that have only zeroes on them. His 19 5 0, deriving the initial spark stop out-of-state cars at our town's letters to prime ministers and other high officials yielded tags from Luxembourg, Jamaica and Puerto Rico, as well as a letter-now some what a collector's item itself-from Winston Churchill's personal secre tary. Until a few years ago, says Pruitt, his entire collection of plates ( about 350), remained in Ware Shoals nailed to the inside walls of his family's garage, "virtually a patchwork paneling of license plates from the floor up, covering nearly every available inch of wall space in that old shed." Wondering if he could learn of other collectors interested in trad ing or buying tags, the Columbia collector advertised in The Antique Trader. He received a hundred re plies, including a letter from the secretary of the National Associa tion of Auto License Plate Col lectors in Iowa.
-Photos by Richard Taylor Left: This sampling of three decades of Ohio tags emphasizes the variety of size and design that characterizes old plates.
30 Sandlapper This organization has several collect only "porcelains"-plates Above: Twenty years of collecting has thousand members who swap and with a handsome, glazed porcelain yielded tags, old and new, from every finish. These expensive examples state in the Union and numerous sell plates, chiefly by means of their European and Latin American countries. monthly newsletter. And there are were discontinued early by most dealers whose sole business is hand states, and their rarity adds to their ling plates for collectors. They mail value. Particular dates or states are the 1970 issue. brochures describing their stock also areas of concentration for the Though dated license plates first and indicating price, date, state, specialists, and still others are appeared in the early 1900s, it was color and condition of each plate. partial to plates inscribed with not until 1917, when the Palmetto Older plates naturally bring higher various mottoes or slogans such as State began registering automobiles prices on the collectors' market. A the South Carolina 1970 tag which and trucks, that dates were added pair of early Rhode Island tags were sports a reminder of the state's to the state's tags. Prior to this, recently offered at $75, but many 300th anniversary. dateless black plates with white nu sales have topped even this figure. As for the plates of prominent merals were standard issue in Sand Every hobby has its specializers, citizens, any Carolina collector lapper country. and among tag collectors Pruitt says would have an interest in the gov According to Pruitt, procedures the specialties are myriad. Some ernor's exclusive No. 1, especially of auto plate distribution abroad
March 1971 31 Above and left: Tags from the Far East, Western Europe and points in between. Right: Pruitt displays a rare porcelain covered plate from his collection.
-Photos above and left by Richard Taylor
candy wrappers, match boxes and 'primitives.'" (He explains the latter as "antique junk, including an vary widely from the typical Amer overwhelming array of oldfangled ican system. "Many countries," he miscellanea ranging from age explains, "assign license numbers tattered, whimsical ad posters of which are kept for life. And some grandpa's boyhood days to strange, countries even require that kits be decrepit-looking pieces of 'Early bought for do-it-yourself tag-mak Attic' furniture.") He has now ing." limited himself to the primitives What does a wife think of a hus and coins and stamps, along with band's collecting? Thomas Henry the auto tags. Pruitt ought to know better than "And I tell you," he assured me, most, because, as he tells it, the "Frances has just about learned to lady of his house, Frances, has "a put up with, and even enjoy, my collector's collector" for a mate. collecting-j-u-u-s-t about!" "In days gone by," relates the enthusiastic tag buff, "I've col Tom McElwee is a free-lance writer lected bottle caps, cigarette packs, from Ware Shoals.
32 Sandlapper During the summer of 1969 1,016 pairs of brown pelicans nested on Bird Island, part of the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge. Last summer only 627 pairs nested here. How many will return in 1971? Will there be any in 1972? ravis McDaniel, manager of the ports of diminishing pelican popu ample) the poison seems to focus Cape Romain National Wildlife lations all over the nation. In Louis on the reproductive system. TRefuge at McClellanville. is wor- iana, where the brown pelican is the The pelicans are adversely af ried. In the past year the signs have state bird, they have all but disap fected in three ways. The shells of all been bad, and he fears that soon peared, and they are now scarce their eggs are thinner; so thin that the brown pelicans that nest along along the Texas coast. Biologists many do not stand up under the the South Carolina coast will cease studying rookeries in California weight of the incubating adult. to reproduce. reported complete nesting failure Some embryos die before hatching Not that we couldn't survive for 1969. No wonder he keeps an even if the shell is not crushed. And without these birds which manage apprehensive eye on the colony at finally, the pelicans come into to combine awkwardness with grace Bird Island, part of the Cape Ro breeding condition later in the and buffoonery with dignity, but main refuge. season when any young produced we would miss them. A ride across The trouble almost surely can be have a poor chance to survive. the Cooper River bridge would be assigned to insecticides, primarily Scientists, using as a point of ref less interesting if a pelican failed to DDT and dieldrin. DDT applied to erence pelican eggs collected on the glide by, describing curves as crops eventually leaches into drain refuge in 1948-just before DDT smooth as those traced by the age water. The Gulf Coast, where came into general use-have calcu bridge itself. A morning stroll along the Mississippi empties after drain lated that eggshells produced last the beach at Edisto would lack ing the heartland of the continent, year were 18 per cent thinner. In something if a procession of peli- and California, where intensified the California disaster a 20 per cent cans playing follow-the-leader did agriculture is practiced on irrigated loss was found to be critical. not dip out of sight between two lands, are especially vulnerable. Strangely, insecticides do not af waves and then top the next swell, Since DDT does not break down, it fect all bird species the same way. wingtips all but brushing the water. is building up in waters everywhere. The thinning of eggshells occurs in And the sight of a pelican shatter- Like iron filings drawn to a ducks, falcons and pelicans that ing the calm of Pawleys Creek with magnet, DDT concentrates in living have ingested DDT, but not in a mighty splash, then bobbing up things. It passes along the food pheasants or quail. As yet undeter with water spilling out of either chain, intensifying several thousand mined is the long-run effect on side of his beak as he strains out the times above the levels found in the humans. Some evidence of damage fish enriches a scene already de- general environment. Within the to the liver and nervous system has lightful. bodies of animals at the top of the been published. McDaniel has kept up with re- chain (pelicans and man, for ex- So McDaniel worries. He records
34 Sand lapper Pelicans are fast losing the battle with the statistics and waits uneasily for young birds, and he agreed to take DDT and other insecticides despite next year. In the summer of 1970 me along. the efforts of conservationists like Travis only 627 pairs nested on Bird Is After we had made our way McDaniel, shown far left banding infant pelicans. The pelican population land as compared with 1,016 the through a maze of islands included on Bird Island (left and above) suffered a year before. Those which nested in the refuge, Travis switched off 38 per cent reduction last year. were two weeks late getting started, the outboard motor and our fiber and eggshells were thinner than glass craft coasted ashore. The din -Photos by Jay Shuler before. of the motor was replaced by the If. the brown pelican is indeed tumult of the birds. Adult pelicans tottering on the brink of species ob seldom make a sound, but their livion, I wanted to see and photo young are as noisy as our offspring graph the Bird Island rookery be are at a Little League ball game. fore the decline became painfully What's more, pelicans share the low obvious. Travis had been planning island with 5,000 screaming terns. to go out to band some of the The noise seems calculated to make
March 1971 35 an intruder so uneasy that he will Travis took a moment to note to a fuzzy youngster which came leave in search of a more peaceful other species which nest on Bird begging, then finally waddled over place. Island because of the safety of its to an identical chick she somehow We hurried along with our work. isolated location. Several pairs of recognized as her own. If the sound didn't drive us away, glossy ibis flew up from low bushes. They faced each other and the the odor soon would. The air was Snowy egrets and Louisiana herons parent seemed to quiver. Several filled with the fetid smell of fish, as were there, along with some cattle silvery fish slid out of her beak in is to be expected at a place where egrets, breeding plumes brick-red front of the nestling. He gobbled the biological processes at the top like Up-Country clay, which were them down greedily, adding with of the food chain culminate. no doubt commuting from pastures each fish to the DDT his parents across Bulls Bay on the mainland. had bequeathed him in the egg. I turned my attention back to the pelicans and focused on an Jay Shuler is the author of South -Photo by Jay Shuler adult which came sailing in from the Carolina Birds of the Foothills and Magnificently awkward, crudely direction of the sea. She stalled out co-author and illustrator of Confi attractive Bird Island brown over a dune and plopped down to dence on Parting-both available in pelicans and their young. the sand. She gave a vicious whack the Sandlapper Bookstore.
36 Sandlapper sure we remember the good old days ...
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By Beth Brown and Gary C. Dickey
ounty coroner, funeral home many business pursuits, Keown can Carolina Street Eliminator, spon director, furniture dealer, expert usually be found in his spacious sored by the Greer Jaycees, in that Cwater skier, ambulance driver garage tinkering with a sleek, blue same year. Surrounded by nu and drag racing enthusiast; put 1966 Corvette Stingray, which he merous trophies in his roomy apart these together and you have a has affectionately dubbed Sand ment on the second floor of the prominent member of the now lapper. funeral home, he recounts, "I've generation-Jack Keown. "I've always been interested in actually lost count of the exact At 29, possibly the youngest South Carolina history," he ex number of trophies that we've won. coroner in South Carolina, Keown plains. "That's why I decided to Now, I usually give them away to has made speed a vital part of his name it Sandlapper. You'd be sur my younger fans and friends." life, both on the dragstrip and on prised how many people don't He has piloted his car at speeds the highways of McCormick know what a Sandlapper is." Those up to 128 miles per hour on a County saving lives with his ambu who have matched horsepower with quarter-mile drag strip. From a lance service. Keown and his Sandlapper have standing start, he can make the The youthful coroner was re learned quickly. quarter-mile run in 11.25 seconds, elected to a four-year term in the Racing in competition on strips and he is proud to note that Sand 1968 general election after filling from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Zapper has never been beaten in its the unexpired term of his father Daytona Beach, Florida, Keown class. who served as coroner for almost captured the 1968 NA SCAR Keown 's good friend and me 20 years until his death in 1965. Winternationals drag race cham chanic, 25-year-old Ronnie Ed While not engaged in one of his pionship, plus the title of South monds, does most of the mechan-
38 Sandlapper -'-Photo by Gary C. Dickey
ical work on the Corvette's 427- to a challenger in a $200-first-place Jack Keown poses with Sandlapper cubic-inch engine. Even with its race. and some of the trophies he and his fiber glass body, Sandlappper While safety is a prime considera mechanic have won in drag racing events. weighs in at 3,300 pounds. tion on and off the drag strip, ''Whenever there's big money Keown has had his share of bad involved, I let Ronnie do the driv luck in this department. Once while exceeding 100 miles per hour had ing. He's always consistent in his answering an emergency ambulance sheared off the bolts holding the driving and I've seen him win call, he backed the ambulance out wheel to the hub. against cars that really outclassed of the garage and rammed into the ''We were lucky that time," ours. Nothing seems to shake him," rear of his race car. Keown says. "We could have torn Keown says. In efforts to keep On at least one occasion, victory up both the car and Ronnie." the car's weight down, they try was taken from Keown and Ed At home in McCormick, Keown to use the least amount of gas monds when one of their com relaxes by cruising the 1,200 miles possible. But this has resulted petitors was declared illegal and the of shoreline on the Clarks Hill in some embarrassing moments, race had to be staged again. Ed Reservoir in his 16-foot boat and Keown recalls. Once, on a final run monds was driving. After about 15 by riding his Triumph motorcycle, for a $100 prize in Augusta, runs down the track during compe also a winner in drag competition. Georgia, the car actually ran out of tition, he pulled up to the starting gas before reaching the finish line. line for the final run, and the right Beth Brown and Gary C. Dickey are On another occasion, Sandlapper rear wheel fell off. Vibrations on the staff of Charleston's News coasted across the finish line, losing during the previous runs at speeds and Courier.
March 1971 39 or centuries the land lay gardens ever planted on the East season strollers walk amid the blaze covered with thick mud left Coast-and all of it built on land of white, red and pink blossoms F by the infrequent floodings once deemed too poor even to look and pause to sniff the buds of the of the Porn Porn River, as it was at and used as a garbage dump for roses that cover acres of ground in called by the Indian tribes which years. the center of the garden. stalked its banks or moved down Edisto Memorial Gardens, lo- Only 45 years old, Edisto Memo- the current in crude canoes. cated on the southernmost edge of rial Gardens is a story of persever Following the first ring of the Orangeburg's city limits, has gained ance and dedication on the part of pioneer axe on the pine and cypress fame among hundreds of thousands many people. In January 1926, trees lining its banks, the land be of persons for its quiet beauty. In- Orangeburg Mayor R.H. Jennings gan to accumulate a covering of eluding some 7 5 acres and thou- authorized the creation of a five refuse thrown there first by chance sands of plants, the gardens are a acre garden site along the banks of and later by design. Today, some monument to the foresight and the North Edisto River. Orangeburg 236 years after the first white man hard work of a city determined to Councilman John Sifley had orig came to the area, Orangeburg can create rather than destroy. inally proposed the project and had boast of one of the most beautiful During the peak of the azalea actively campaigned for its accept-
40 Sandlapper Edisto Memorial Gardens
By John W. Faust
In addition to many varieties of azaleas planted in a natural setting (left), Edisto Memorial Gardens features beds of lilies (above) and an extensive rose garden (below).
- Photo courtesy S.C. Parks, Recreation and Tourism
ance among his fellow council members and other prominent civic and business leaders. The five-acre site chosen lay amidst tall cypress trees with only a small dike to contain the flood waters of the river. A foreman and four laborers with one hand dump cart and a mule called "Shug" com prised the work force authorized to create and maintain the project. } As ambitious as they may have been, those who worked on the project lacked the experience to make it successful. (Even the name chosen was laborious-Edisto
March 1971 41 The dark waters of the North Edisto River complement the landscaped acres Botanical Gardens.) To the conster along the shore. Bottom: Water lilies flourish in the shallows of a curve nation of all concerned, it was of the river. Right: A bridge on a garden path is mirrored in the still water. found that the dike was too low to keep the black waters of the flood ing North Edisto from the labor iously created azalea beds. After the waters of the river receded each year, it was found that more azaleas had been uprooted and floated downstream. Naturally, the scoffers had a field day and soundly con demned the city fathers for wasting taxpayers' hard-earned cash on a piece of land not good for "any thing but a trash dump." For the next 11 years the five acre site was haphazardly main tained. Some visitors were attracted by the few plants blooming there, but Mayor Jennings never forgot the possibilities of the riverside land. June 1, 1937, marked the first decisive step in the serious develop ment of the gardens, for it was then that Andrew C. Dibble, local nurs eryman and holder of a B.S. degree in horticulture from Clemson Col lege, was prevailed upon to become the first Orangeburg City Park De partment director. "The gardens," remarked Dibble -Photo courtesy S.C. Parks, Recreation and Tourism recently, "were about to go to pot when I came to work." One of the first things he did after assuming the position was to draw up a master plan of future development. Then he rolled up his sleeves and set to work. "The first thing I did," says Dibble (who retired from his post in 1964, turning the position over to his son, Robert B. Dibble), "was to raise the dike, drain the five-acre garden site and rebuild the azalea beds to a height where there was proper drainage." In 1938, Dibble and his crew began to demolish the old city swimming pool which lay within the development area of the gardens and started to fill and grade the new land. "If you think that wasn't hard," says Dibble, "just bear in mind that we didn't have the first piece of -Photo by Roberts. Dibble power machinery. Just mules and
42 Sand lap per southernmost limit of the gardens, take time, but it will be worth roses, camellias, dogwoods, flower and Dibble has drawn plans to while." ing cherry and crabapple trees, create a public boat ramp, camp The elder and younger Dibbles wisteria, day lilies, tulips, hollies, sites and a huge playground lawn have transformed dreams into real water lilies and stands of native area. When completed, the gardens ities. Although Andrew Dibble said hardwood and softwood trees. will stretch for over a mile down recently that he was dissatisfied Free to the public, Edisto Memo stream from their beginnings at the with what he had done up to his rial Gardens is a thing of beauty, pavilion. retirement in 1964, it's evident that unsurpassed in its setting, famed for ''There'll be roughly 40-or-so his dreams will be made reality by its profusion of color. acres added to the present 75," says his son. Dibble, "but this is a project that Today, thousands of visitors John W. Faust is editor of the will consume about 15 years. It'll stroll through acres of azaleas, Bamberg Herald.
-Photo courtesy S.C. Parks, Recreation and Tourism
44 Sand lap per Textile Hall is the largest industrial exhibit center on the Atlantic coast. It features a 444,000-square-foot exhibition floor, parking for 3,500 autos and accommodations '/"-/F=I 1c:=-~"/I at the adjacent Greenville Downtown Airport for 300 RADIO 133 company and charter aircraft. It is unique in its GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA •MULTIMEDIA STATIONS flexibility. It has served as a textile showplace with machinery in mill-type operation, as an auditorium ,/,/F=I I c:= - F="" "/I seating 22,000 for a Billy Graham Crusade STEREO 937 and as home of the Greenville Arts Festival. By Lucille B. Green FLORENCE SHENNAN: Traveler - Artist
o matter where she is-watching television in her living room, Nwaiting in an airport terminal or visiting a metropolitan museum Greenville artist Florence Shennan has a sketchbook and pencil in hand. And she is automatically transferring her visual impressions to paper. A most receptive and sensitive personality, she reflects in her sketchbooks a lively interest in people of all sorts, be they relatives or total strangers. Her subjects run the gamut from Siamese cats to family feet, and the outdoors al ways intrigues her. "Last night I was sketching while I watched television," Mrs. Shennan says, "and suddenly I realized that no matter how you drew cats you could put them in eggs." And there were the cats, neatly confined in ovate outlines. Another page was a montage of feet, "my husband's and mine," superimposed in many positions. There was a page, too, with a con glomeration of faces as they had flickered over the television screen. Most were easily recognizable as
-Photo by Robert Smeltzer Mrs. Shen nan's preoccupation with nature is evident in this untitled acrylic. Much of her work is inspired by Low-country landscapes.
46 Sand lap per Artist, teacher, world-traveler and housewife, Greenville's Florence Shennan rejects the abstract for her more "comfortable" real ism.
is, because the real is nicer than I can imagine." Florence Shennan is one of 31 artists included in the tricentennial volume, Contemporary Artists of South Carolina, written by Jack A. Morris Jr., director of the Green ville County Museum of Art, with photography by Robert Smeltzer. Last year her work was selected for the 22nd Southeastern Annual Exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Her work has also found a place in exhibitions by the Guild of South Carolina Artists, the Columbia Museum of Art, Gibbes Art Gallery in Charleston, the Greenville County Museum and in the South Carolina State Invita tional Exhibit. Mrs. Shennan majored in fine art at the University of Kentucky, but circumstances led to her involve ment for several years in the field of commercial art. For six years she was the commercial artist in the ad department of the Greenville News and then continued to do some commercial work for another year with an advertising agency. In 1961 she began an intense ef personalities on a news show and a There was much beautiful work by fort in the fine arts field. She late night talk show. young people-and some ghastly studied for three years as a part Mrs. Shennan's notebooks are dada work. I only understood the time graduate student with Emery revelations of her personality and latter after I visited the sculpture Bopp and Carl Blair at Bob Jones interests. And from them she takes show. It was really despair they University; then studied watercolor direction for her more serious were reflecting and picturing. I with Eliot O'Hara, life drawing with work. An avid traveler, she comes studied it and I studied the mate Thomas Flowers of Furman Uni back with notebooks full of im rials. It didn't hurt me, because I versity, and learned much, too, pressions-" and I work from have passed through the stage of de from her longtime close friend, tal them." She had just returned from spair; I am beyond it now." ented Georgia artist Ouida Can a visit to New York when inter Mrs. Shennan thinks artists today aday. She has been on the faculty viewed. There she had visited "the are saying: "I'm me. I count. I'm of the Greenville County Museum's best galleries, the most avant-garde, important. Everybody's important. Art School for several years. and the Soho district," and re It's the individual that counts." She has done many commis turned full of new impressions and The Greenville artist's work is sioned portraits and also does a reactions. usually regarded as realistic. "I al great deal of saleable work in the "I just got a tremendous impres most always paint it like it is, or field of nature. sion of the young artists in New like I wish it were," she points out, In what direction is she aiming York, particularly at the sculpture "I'm not comfortable with the ab now? show at the Whitney Museum. stract. I guess I mostly paint like it "I'll just follow my notebook,"
March 1971 47 "Infinite Goose," one of Mrs. Shennan's more recent oils, was shown in the South Carolina Guild Show at Florence in the fall of 1970, and the Greenville Artists Guild exhibit in January.
considerable talent was obvious and the frustrations of the last eight years have been no match for her singular obsession to become an excellent painter. Tendencies which were a part of her work from the beginning are today being brought to fruition and the sincere artistic temperament which she has at tained adds authority to each new statement." He characterizes her as "a com pulsive traveler." We first met her in 1964 when she had just returned from an around-the-world trip, concentrat ing most of her time and attention on the Far East. A display of her work, developed from those peren nial sketchbooks, was then on dis play at the Greenville YWCA. Since then she has traveled to Guatemala and other places both near and far. But Morris notes: "Despite her travels around the world, her pri mary inspiration is at home in the forests and meadows of her -Photo by Robert Smeltzer adopted state. Here an intimate rapport with wild flowers, weeds she says. toward the March exhibit of her and rocks is transformed to the sur A native of Winchester, Ken work in the Sandlapper Gallery. face of paper and canvas through an tucky, she and her husband, John Viewing the work in her home inner vision of personal fantasy." B. Shennan, live near the foot of studio and the little gallery which Morris predicts: "It is her new Paris Mountain. They have a moun adjoins it, she pointed out some ability to transcend mere docu tain retreat, too. "We both love the work as being "influenced by my mentation of nature in search for mountains." And when they can't two dearest artist friends-both of expressionistic lyricism that offers get to the mountains, they have a whom are very strong artists. I have the promise of fulfillment of that miniature swimming pool in the tried to get some of that strength fantasy." backyard where they can be found into my work." Mrs. Shennan travels often to the on summer days. Mr. Shennan is As art critic for the Greenville Low Country and works at recap the administrative head of the trust News, this writer feels the work turing the beauty of nature there as department of the South Carolina Mrs. Shennan has been doing has a well as in her beloved mountains. National Bank in Greenville. delicate and ethereal charm that But her concern and involvement Mrs. Shennan has had one-man may well be lost in her more recent with nature is almost certainly the exhibitions at the Greenville efforts to make a strong statement. finest facet of her talent. County Museum of Art, Charles Jack Morris writes of her work: ton's Dock Street Theatre, Furman "Although her initial paintings were University and Wofford College. superficially impressionistic, highly Lucille Green is a staff writer for When interviewed she was looking decorative and stiff with indecision, the Greenville News.
48 Sand lap per JOHN JONATHAN PRATT
-Photo courtesy Alabama Dept. of Archives and History INVENTOR OF THE PTEROTYPE
By E. Thomas Crowson
March 1971 49 n Encyclopaedia Britannica ref erence to the typewriter sug Agests that although Alfred Ely Beach designed an early typewriter, "his most significant contribution to typewriter technology was as editor of Scientific American." In this journal he reprinted an article describing the inventions of John J. Pratt which had first appeared in a London magazine, Engineering. The reprinted article on Pratt's machine was read and studied by Christopher L. Sholes, who was thereby inspired to construct "the first practical typewriter in 186 7." Taken at face value, the article points back to Pratt's machine as the inspiration for Sholes who is given high praise as the inventor of the typewriter in America. While it is evident that several men con tributed to the development of the new machine, our interest is in the role of only one of them, South Carolinian John Pratt. John Jonathan Pratt was born at Unionville, the county seat of -Photo courtesy McKissick Memorial Library Union County, South Carolina, on Leaving the strife-torn states for better working conditions, and perhaps a patent, April 14, 1831. He was the son of lawyer-journalist Pratt developed in England this crude writing machine John and Dorcas Moore Pratt, and that was to inspire the inventions of the typewriter and the ticker tape machine. he grew up in a modest dwelling just opposite the county court house. As a youth he developed an interest in law and newspaper work and, following a sojourn at Cokes bury College, he turned to news paper work and later to the reading of law. In the 1850s Pratt's family migrated like many South Caro linians, to the fertile land of the Southwest, settling first at Green ville, Alabama. There he read law with Judge B.F. Porter and even tually married Julia Porter, the judge's daughter. Following his admission to the bar, John Pratt moved to Centre, Alabama, and began his practice. The law failed to satisfy him and soon Pratt went back into journal ism, working as a reporter and later buying part interest in a newspaper at Centre known as The National
50 Sand lap per Democrat. He edited the paper and his machine. Years later Thomas A. States in the post Civil War era be served the county as Register in Edison used the printing wheel came a good market for type Chancery as well. Both positions theory of Pratt's invention in per writers. Mark Twain was one of the required considerable writing and fecting and patenting (in 1872) an first American notables to buy one Pratt is reputed to have told friends electric printing wheel, a forerunner ( 18 7 4). Pratt still continued to that he was going to invent a writ of the stock market tape ticker of work with the typewriter and he ing machine so his fingers would today. received additional patents from not "ache so much when I am writ In describing Pratt's invention the United States. He sold his ing." the U.S. Patent Office notations patent of Nov. 14, 1882, to James Enlisting the aid of one of his state that it had 36 types molded in B. Hammond and the Hammond young employees, John Neely, a three rows on a type wheel, the Typewriter Co. for cash and a practical mechanic and printer, rotations of which brought the re $2,500 life annuity. Aside from Pratt put together a writing ma quired character opposite the print editorial work on the Gadsden, chine with the use of steel knitting ing point. Paper with a carbon sheet Alabama, Times in the 1880s, Pratt needles and other articles. This intervening, was pressed against it worked as advisor and superintend invention was either in 1861 or by a hammer. This hammer was ent in the Hammond factory in 1863. Students of Alabama history worked by keys very similar to Brooklyn, New York, for many differ on this point. those on machines today. Pratt's years. With the great civil strife that early machine, which found its way Pratt died in Chattanooga, gripped the nation coming ever to the South Kensington collection Tennessee, on June 24, 1905, and closer to Alabama, John Pratt sold (Victoria and Albert Museum in was buried in the family burial out his interest in the newspaper London) is described: ground two miles west of Centre, business and sailed to England hop Alabama. In 1962, the Cherokee ing to find greater advantages there In place of the type plate it County Historical Society erected a carried a small typewheel, on which marker on West Main Street in and perhaps to get the protection the letters are mounted in three of an English patent for his writing horizontal and twelve '!ertical rows. Centre, Alabama, to "John machine. A Southern man could This wheel is connected to a train Jonathan Pratt-Inventor of early not hope for patent protection of clockwork that tends to rotate typewriter-the pterotype." from the United States government it, but is prevented from so doing by means of a tooth mounted in a at that crucial time in the nation's notched circular plate, placed at the Professor E. Thomas Crowson is history. foot of the vertical shaft of the professor of history at Winthrop After settling in England, Pratt typewheel. The shaft can thus be College. continued to perfect his invention. brought to rest at positions cor The British Society of Arts showed responding each to a single vertical row of letters by means of stops great interest in his work and, on acting in the notched plate, and Dec. 1, 1866, Pratt was granted a operated by the respective keys to patent on his writing machine. Fol which the letters belong. A second lowing his exhibition of the ma motion could also be given to the chine before the Society of Arts, wheel in the direction of its axis, and thus the letter of any one of the Society of Engineers and the the three horizontal rows selected. Royal Society of Great Britain, Both these motions were controlled the London magazine Engineering by one movement of the key, and printed in 1867 a descriptive article the same movement, when con with illustrations of "Pratt's ptero tinued, caused the hammer to be struck. The return movement al type." lowed a coiled spring to draw the Christopher L. Sholes, editor of paper carriage a step onward. The the Milwaukee Daily Sentinel and big .key on the right of the key News picked up Pratt's ideas and board served to return the paper modified them. He perfected a carrier (or carriage) back, and automatically shifted the same up writing machine which he called for a fresh line, "the typewriter" and had it pat ented on June 23, 1868. Pratt, who Pratt sold one of his first ma had returned to the United States, ch in es in England for approx received a patent (No. 81,000) for imately $15. However, the United
March 1971 51 (lorn~l!tBPiZB~ lP~JJic 0'1 J10PSB-~'1~-Et!EEY
By Evan Bussey StPBBtS
52 Sand lap per harleston has put space age tech the system had to be capable of fast problems. Should a malfunction nology to work on its traffic and economical expansion as future occur, control panel lights flash, Cproblems. The city has installed needs might develop, for, although and the exact location of the prob a traffic computer to help move the population of Charleston is lem is typed out on a digital com modern vehicles through streets about 70,000, much of the city's puter which is part of the system. designed for horse-and-buggy-paced traffic is generated from a growing Previously, Charleston traffic traffic. urban area of approximately signals were controlled by the usual Those who settled Charleston 250,000 people." timing devices which allow a certain some three centuries ago could not After extensive study, the solu period of time for "green" and a foresee the problems which the tion proposed for the city's prob certain period for "red," regardless 20th century would present. One of lems was the traffic computer, a of the traffic flow. The computer these problems-the movement of traffic-is as acute in Charleston as in any other city in South Carolina. The job of solving the traffic problems in Charleston has fallen on the shoulders of Harold M. Ray nor Jr., an outgoing red-haired indi vidual who has ramrodded the traffic computer idea from the drawing board to reality. Raynor is a member of a new professional group known as traffic engineers. He spends his life trying to move 20th-century traffic through 18th-century streets as smoothly and as rapidly as possible. "Contrary to what a lot of people may think," says Raynor, "traffic engineers are human too. We appreciate the finer things of life." He refers to the popular thesis that the only way to speed traffic movement is to build bigger, wider highways. Raynor points out that it was device which not only regulates Charleston's crowded, narrow streets, "neither desirable nor feasible" to traffic signals according to the flow evident in the aerial view at left undertake a major street-widening of traffic, but which can show at a (taken from over Ft. Sumter), presented traffic experts with a project in Charleston, since much glance the average speed of traffic major transportation dilemma. The of the city's character and charm at a given intersection; show the usual street-widening and new-road comes from its meandering streets, exact speed of an individual vehicle construction programs were not cob b 1estone byways and pictur going through a given intersection; compatible with the interest esque alleys. give an exact count of the number in preservation of the city's numerous "The solution," says Raynor, landmarks, such as the old chamber of vehicles passing an intersection of commerce building, above. "had to lie in 'expanding' roadways during a given period of time; and Modern, computerized traffic by discarding fixed-time control ( of provide, via closed-circuit tele control is, hopefully, the solution. traffic) and replacing it with an ef vision, an on-the-spot look at the ficient and reliable system based on actual traffic situation at any one modern technology and hardware." of five crucial points in the city. The engineer adds: "In addition, The system also monitors its own
March 1971 53 traffic at 90 intersections in the nine-square-mile peninsular section of the city-the historic area where the traffic problem is more acute. It can, and will, be expanded to take in the newer sections of the city west of the Ashley River. The traffic computer also will make it easier for fire-fighting equipment to move through the city. A controller at the fire depart ment's central communications center can push a button and give a fire truck a green light all the way to the scene of a fire. There are 10 such "fire runs" designed into the system, which can be activated by consoles at the control center in a building at the city marina and at the fire department communication center. Vehicles along a fire run will see a pulsating green signal, while all approaches to the run will see a red Above: An artist's conception of the changes that. The new system is signal. More than one route can be half-million-dollar traffic system's entirely traffic responsive, says used at a time, if the need arises. control room. Control technicians are Raynor. For the technically oriented, the fed vital information by means of a traffic computer is a complex as display map, closed-circuit monitors, According to Raynor, the street indicator panels and on-the-spot capacity in Charleston will increase sembly consisting of 12 density hookups. Traffic speed, density and by 15 per cent with the installation computers, 16 volume computers volume are regulated by 37 components, of the system. Vehicle stops can be and 8 speed computers. It also has a sensitive to conditions at 90 intersections. reduced by more than 30 per cent, digital computer, a display map, and average travel time decreased emergency vehicle control panels, by as much as 20 per cent. printer keyboard, indicator panels The system, which cost the city for speed, and volume and visual some $515,000, was designed surveillance equipment (TV cam especially for the port city and its eras). unique traffic problems by the Auto The system has its own tele matic Signal Divison of (the) Lab phone hookups, and a repairman oratory for Electronics, Inc., of working at one of the intersection Norwalk, Connecticut. control boxes can talk directly with Some 1,000 miles of wire cable master control while repairing a about 45 per cent of which is failure. Also, the system is rigged so underground in keeping with the that if there is a failure at night, it city's effort to eliminate overhead wires in its historic district-is in cluded, in addition to 11 miles of Right: The interchange of 1-26 and the crosstown route in Charleston's video cable for the five television peninsular section. Completion monitors. of the interchange increased Initially, the system is to handle congestion in the downtown area.
54 Sand lap per will call a technician at home. tors were from Tokyo and Yoko is a tool which enables local traffic Charleston's system has already hama. agencies to achieve "efficient con attracted national and international While the computer is bringing in gestion-a highly productive gather attention. Delegations from a new era in traffic control, Raynor ing." Chicago and Japan have visited has warned against viewing it as a Raynor and the control center to "magic technique that will elimi Evan Bussey is city editor of the study the system. The Japanese visi- nate traffic congestion." Rather, it Charleston News and Courier.
March 1971 55 By Albert P. Hout
zaleas grow best in climates sult a reputable nurseryman who there is a mixture of sunshine and that are mild and humid. will share his knowledge with you. shade. Do not plant them under A This is one of the reasons Another successful method is to shallow-rooted trees, for the trees they are such favorites in deep talk with green-thumbed neighbors. will use the food and water needed South states and those along the Still another way-and probably the by the azaleas. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. best if you have the time-is to visit If you want to use azaleas to Their delicate beauty and fra your county or state agricultural beautify a building, plant them on grant aroma are further reasons for agent. the northern and eastern sides, their popularity. The best-sized plants to buy are where they will be protected from Azaleas can be grown in un those about two feet tall. Anything the drying hot afternoon sun. favorable regions, but here in the smaller may be injured by cold Because mature azaleas can Southeast, conditions are considered weather; larger ones will be more spread to six or seven feet, they ideal. expensive. Get balled and bur should be spaced four to six feet Azaleas can be grown success lapped plants; these will not dry apart. Spacing is not a problem for fully if these simple steps are fol out so rapidly and are easier to single plants, as long as they are far lowed: buy species that are adapted establish. enough from buildings and trees to to their area; get plants that are two Azaleas can most successfully be allow them to spread. years old and between eight and planted when they are dormant, Mass blooming can be obtained sixteen inches tall; plant them in any time from fall to early spring. by setting plants close together well-drained, acid soil at the same They can also be transplanted while while they are young. Transplant depth as they were at the nursery; they are growing, although there is them as they become crowded. maintain a mulch around them some risk involved. If you decide to The soil for azaleas should be while they are growing; and guard plant azaleas while they are in prepared several weeks before them against drought and insects. bloom, make sure that they do not planting. Dig individual holes about Some varieties of azaleas will sur dry out after they have been re a foot and a half in diameter and vive colder temperatures; some will planted. about a foot deep. Azaleas do best withstand hotter temperatures. This Azaleas will not grow well in in well-drained, acid soil. Adding is why it is imperative that one deep shade, so place them in as organic matter (peat moss, one- to buys only those plants which are sunny a location as possible. They two-year-old leaves, or forest leaf especially adapted to his area. should also be protected from the mold) will increase acidity and There are three excellent ways to wind. Many gardeners find that improve the soil's water-holding discover the best species for your azaleas grow best when planted capacity. particular area. First, you may con- under tall, deep-rooted trees, where In preparing planting beds,
56 Sand lap per -Photo by Albert P. Hout spread organic matter four to five same height as it was when at the Azaleas may need fertilizing soon inches deep over the surface of the nursery (if roots are planted too after they have been planted. Light spaded bed. Mix the organic matter deeply they will die from lack of green leaves are a sign of fertilizer well with the upper six inches of air). Fill up the hole with soil and need. Many lawn fertilizers are soil. If you are planting separate press it down firmly with the alkaline; therefore, make sure you plants, mix the soil with an equal hands; then water the soil get fertilizer that has been espe amount of organic matter. thoroughly. This will bring the soil cially formulated for azaleas. Do After the ground has been pre into close contact with the roots. not apply fertilizer after the end of pared, it will be higher than the After watering, mulch the bed or June. surrounding soil, but this is bene hole with oak leaves, peat moss, That's all there is to it. ficial in that it will help drain away pine needles or leaf mold. A layer Few moments are as satisfying to excess water. from two to five inches thick will the gardener as those when the Planting holes should be larger be sufficient. Spread the mulch so lovely, delicate flowers burst forth than the rootball. Fill the hole with that all the ground shadowed by in all their glory. prepared soil and press it down the branches is covered. Mulch firmly so that the plant will have a should be removed at the onset of solid bed. Build up the soil in this winter and new mulching added Albert P. Hout is a free-lance writer manner until the plant is about the every spring. from Appomattox, Virginia.
March 1971 57 Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Day We are pleased to announce that Sunday, March 28, will be Eliza beth O'Neill Verner day at Sand lapper Gallery and Bookstore. A reception honoring Mrs. Verner will be held from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. On display will be original artworks from private collections and some originals for resale. Prints and etch ings by the Charleston artist will PUBLISHER'S also be available.
PONDERING Open House for Librarians On Friday, March 26, Sandlapper Bookstore and Art Gallery will hold an open house for school li brarians between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. We hope that all persons interested in school library programs will take this opportunity to become acquainted with our facilities and services.
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MOTHER CHURCH OF LUTHERANISM IN THE LOW COUNTRY By Betty Jane Mi Iler
-Photo by Hand Studio
ne Prussian officer who came to road leading to Rivers Bridge State for Lutheran liturgy and theology America as a special inspector of Park, six miles away, the front door did not interest the Negroes of this OGerman troops and colonists became the side door and the en area. Slaves who came to church during the Revolution did not re trance was made to face the as were carriage drivers and maids, and turn to his native Bamberg, Bavaria. phalt. they were asked to come in only John George Bamberg liked the The altar and the pews of the when their socializing with friends new country so well that he stayed. church are handmade. While the outside disturbed worshipers inside. In 1788 he was ordained a Lu high ceiling of yesteryear is re Mt. Pleasant has been fondly theran minister and served Mt. t a ined, extensive renovation called the "Mother Church of Lu Pleasant Lutheran Church, a little through the years has resulted in a theranism" in the Low-Country over a mile west of Ehrhardt, until beautifully kept interior. It is one area that is today Allendale, Barn 1800. of the few country churches of its well and Bamberg counties. Through Orangeburgh Township, later to size and age to be centrally heated her influence several other churches become Orangeburg County, was and cooled by electricity. have been established, and Mt. Pleas the settling place of German and A pair of elegant chandeliers ant was the meeting place of the Swiss Lutherans in 1735 and 1737. which now hang in the sanctuary South Carolina Lutheran Synod in Minutes of the Synod of South are older than the oldest member of 1873, 1878 and 1894. Carolina record 1750 as the organi the church, 93-year-old Benjamin Today Mt. Pleasant Lutheran zation date of Mt. Pleasant Lu Berry Bishop. The old Communion Church's small resident membership theran Church. While an earlier ware, baptismal bowl and altar of 72 confirmed members has taken organization date may be suggested, vases are spoken of by the oldest a daring progressive step. On Jan. 1, 1750 seems to coincide with the parishioners in this manner: "They 1967, she and her neighboring earliest available records. have always been here." The old church, Ehrhardt Memorial, became At one period in its 220-year key still hangs at the original front separate entities. Mt. Pleasant called existence Mt. Pleasant was known door and a treasury of old hymnals her first full-time pastor on Dec. as St. Bartholomew; it has moved rests in a cabinet. 15, 1968, and since Feb. 28, 1969, about one mile from its original site Church records from before the a full-scale church program has and now occupies its third worship War Between the States were kept been in progress. A new parsonage building. Possibly the name Mt. in private homes and were lost dur was built and dedicated late in Pleasant came from that of a ing the occupation of the area by 1969. schoolhouse initially located on the Sherman's troops. The church's church's present site. senior citizens are the main source Mrs. Ronald E. Miller, president of What is now the front door of of interesting highlights of its his the South Carolina Society, United the sanctuary was once the side of tory. States Daughters of 1812, is from the building. With the paving of the This church has no slave balcony, Ehrhardt.
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66 Sand lap per BATTLEGROUND OF FRE& in South Carolina clearly, simply DOM: SOUTH CAROLINA IN and readably. Sparing in the use of THE REVOLUTION. By Nat and detail, they can nevertheless em Sam Hilborn. xvi + 239 pages. ploy it to bring a scene to life; for BATTLEGROUND OF FREEDOM Sandlapper Press, Inc. $20.00. example, because of the shortage of provisions as the American army SOUTH CAROLINA The history of South Carolina under General Gates marched to IN THE REVOLUTION during the American Revolution is ward Camden in August 1780, as exciting and dramatic as that of some of the officers "even used hair any other state. Indeed, it was more powder to thicken their soup." eventful than that of most, for ac Quotations are equally apt: "We cording to one count 137 battles- fight, get beat, rise, and fight including key turning points in the again!" As the authors realized, it is ATTLEGROUND wars-were fought within its difficult to improve upon Gen. OF borders. But no doubt in part Greene's own description of the because many of our leading his war in the South. In short, the Hil FREEDOM torians have been New Englanders, borns have written a good narrative. Americans usually know more Somewhat surprisingly, however, about what happened in Pennsyl their text lacks that sense of adven vania and Massachusetts than in ture and discovery which their ar South Carolina. ticle "Revolution Revisited" (Sand Revolution The first full-length book of two lapper, December 1970) conveyed. amateur historians, Nat and Sam But what the text lacks the illus Hilborn, is a remarkably successful trations compensate for. SAT .1n•I 5,1,,11111.110!!~ attempt to popularize the story of Not only have the authors made South Carolina between 1763 and conveniently accessible a large 1783. The authors dispatch the number of previously known pic period from the end of the French tures pertaining to persons and and Indian War to the outbreak of events in South Carolina during the fighting between American and Revolution, they have also given us A documented history of British forces in about 16 pages; the the best of more than 2,000 photo South Carolina's role in the remainder of the book ranges over graphs which they took while can American Revolution the seven years of fighting: civil war vassing the state in search of Revo- profusely illustrated. between Whigs and Tories in the 1u ti on ary sites. Many of these backcountry; the engagement at photographs are excellent, though a By Nat and Sam Hilborn Sullivans Island; the fall of Charles few of the color prints resemble ton; the battles of Camden, Kings French impressionistic paintings. It Mountain, Cowpens, Hobkirk Hill, should be noted, however, that the Ninety Six and Eutaw Springs; and effect of the latter is often rather $20.00 the British evacuation of Charleston pleasing. More important, these on Dec. 14, 1782. modern photographs of ancient The tale is familiar to those in places speak eloquently about the terested in local history and no flux as well as the continuity of his doubt they, as well as specialists in tory. Moreover, by reminding us of the history of the Revolution, can how many scenic and historic sights find points about which to quibble. South Carolina has to offer, these The work is long on narrative and pictures also promise present dis Now on sale at short on analysis; the loyalists-in covery. If the reader can afford the fact, the whole British side of the hefty price of this volume, if he can story-receive short shrift; and a read the modern highway map number of recent monographs, upon which the authors have identi sandlapper which might have helped to clarify fied the locations of 57 Revolution debatable points of interpretation, ary landmarks, if he finds himself BOOKSTORE are omitted from the bibliography. stimulated to take his camera and Location: U.S. 378 Yet to say all of this is not to de his curiosity and go and do like W. Columbia, S.C. tract from the authors' real achieve wise, he will find that Battleground Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1668 ment. They have told the story of of Freedom more than gives him his Columbia, S.C. 29202 the military side of the Revolution money's worth.-Robert M. Weir.
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72 Sand lap per WEST COLUMBIA-Sandlapper Gallery- Flor ence Shennan, One-man Show. 16-April 6 COLUMBIA- Columbia College- Wood Block MARCH on Linoleum Prints (Pratt Graphics Ex Through March 3 hibit). GREENVILLE-Greenville County Museum of 19-20, 26-27, April 2-3 Art- Greenville Area School Student Ex CHARLESTON- Charleston Artist Guild's An hibit. nual Sidewalk Art Exhibit. NE-MA Through March 5 22-27 FLORENCE- Florence Museum-Bill Buggie, MYRTLE BEACH - Art Show and Sale, Original Paintings. Art from Chagall to Rembrandt. SHOW Through March 6 22-April 9 GREENVILLE- Liberty Life Insurance Com COLUMBIA-University of South Carolina pany-South Carolina Scholastic Art Awards USC Graduate Students Exhibit. Exhibit. 26-28 Through March 7 MYRTLE BEACH- Convention Center-Amer GREENVILLE- Greenville County Museum of ican Art Society Spring Art Show. Art-"Children of Many Lands Illustrate MYRTLE BEACH- State Craft Show Festival. Grimm's Fairy Tales." 26-April 3 Through March 10 BEAUFORT- 10th Annual Beaufort Art Asso COLUMBIA- Museum of Art-103rd Annual ciation Exhibit. American Watercolor Society Traveling 27-April 26 Show. CLEMSON- Clemson University- "Photog Through March 18 raphy and the City," City Planning Exhibit DUE WEST- Erskine College- South Carolina Organized by Charles and Ray Eames. Association of Schools of Art Circulating APRIL Exhibit. 1-30 Through March 19 COLUMBIA-Museum of Art- "Downeast COLUMBIA-University of South Carolina- Art Artist: WIiliam S. Moise." Education Exhibit. 2-3 Through March 28 MYRTLE BEACH - Waccamaw Young People's COLUMBIA- Museum of Art- Paintings by Art Show. Frederick Rostock. 4-May 7 Through March 31 FLORENCE-Florence Museum-18th Pee Dee AIKEN- University of South Carolina Regional Regional, Eastern South Carolina Art. Campus- Drawings by Philip Mullen. 9-May 2 CHARLESTON - Gibbes Art Gallery- 24th GREENVILLE- Greenville County Museum of Florence Shennan Annual South Carolina Artists Exhibition. Art- "Southern Sculpture '70." CLINTON-Presbyterian College-South Caro 11-30 lina Arts Commission State Arts Collection. WEST COLUMBIA- Sandlapper Gallery-Wil March 7-April 2 FRIPP ISLAND-Fripp Island Inn- Jim Harri liam S. Dowis Jr., One-man Show. son, One-man Show. 14 GREENVILLE- Furman University- Paintings CAMDEN- Annual Camden Art Association by Bob Jones University Faculty. Sidewalk Exhibit. GREENVILLE-Peoples National Bank Main 14-18 A reception Office-Olivia Jackson McGee, One-man will honor the artist Show. COLUMBIA-State Crafts Fair. 2-24 on March 7 CLEMSON-Clemson University-Elbridge 2- 6 p.m. Gordon, One-man Show. 4-April 4 COLUMBIA- Museum of Art-Artists Guild of tours Columbia Annual Spring Juried Show. SANDLAPPER GALLERY 6-April 4 U.S. 378 GREENVILLE- Greenville County Museum of MARCH W. COLUMBIA, S.C. Art-Recent Drawings and Paintings by 18 David Van Hook. BEAUFORT- Town and Garden Tour. P.O. BOX 1668 7-26 29-April 5 COLUMBIA, S.C. 29202 GREENVILLE- Furman University - Juried Ex CHARLESTON- Festival of Houses. hibit by South Carolina Craftsmen. 20 TELEPHONE 7-28 CHARLESTON-St. Michael's Town Tour. GREENVILLE-Greenville County Museum of 24 (803) 796-2686 Art-American Federation of Arts Exhibit: CONWAY -Tour of Historic Homes and Build "How to Look at a Painting." ings. ROCK HILL-Winthrop College-Springs Mills 26 Traveling Art Show. BEAUFORT-Candlelight Walking Tour. 7-April 2 27 FLORENCE-Florence Museum-Julia Homer BEAUFORT- Plantation Tour. Wilson, Graphics. CHARLESTON-Plantation Tours.
March 1971 73 27-28 SUMMERVILLE-St. Paul's Episcopal Church House and Garden Tour. APRIL 1-15 FLORENCE- Florence Gardens and Beauty Trail. 2-3 AIKEN- St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church Home and Garden Tour. GEORGETOWN-24th Annual Plantation and Town House Tours. 3 CHARLESTON- St. Michael's Plantation Tour. 3-4 HILTON HEAD- Tour of Homes. S~~D 6 COLUMBIA-Home and Garden Pilgrimage. 14 BARNWELL- Barnwell County Tour of Homes. CAMDEN- Kershaw County Historic Home PATTE~NS Tour. FOR NEEDLEWORK miscellaneous MARCH AND TILEWORK 3 NORTH MYRTLE BEACH-Surf Club- Garden Qub Flower Display and Fashion Show. 4-6 COLUMBIA- Carolina Coliseum- South Caro lina High School Basketball Tournament. COLUMBIA- Dreher High Auditorium - Red Stocking Review. 6 ELLOREE- Elloree Trials. 9-13 GREENVILLE- Southern Textile Basketball Tournament. 10-14 COL UM BIA- Carolina Coliseum - Holiday on Ice International. 13 AIKEN- The Aiken Trials. 14-17 A full-color Carolina Gamecock, Citadel Bulldog and SPARTANBURG- Memorial Auditorium-15th Clemson Tiger are each reproduced on scaled paper Annual Piedmont South Carolina Science (approximately 22" x 27"), and ready for the do-it Fair. yourselfer interested in creating an unusual accent for 16 personal use or for the home. GREENVILLE - Memorial Auditorium ....:The Whether it be a pocketbook, chair seat cover, rug, Harlem Globetrotters. plaque, card table cover, tote bag, wastebasket cover, 16-18 wall hanging, tile top table, or any one of scores of GEORGETOWN - Annual Antique Fair. needlework and tilework applications, these patterns by 18-21 Adalee Winter offer interesting creative possibilities. GREENVILLE-Greenville Home and Garden Show. A how-to-do-it instruction booklet illustrated with 19-21 profuse drawings that will make even a novice an accom MYRTLE BEACH-Convention Center- Chap plished needleworker has also been prepared by Mrs. man's Antique Show. Winter. 20 Patterns of the Gamecock, Bulldog and Tiger are AIKEN- Aiken Steeplechase Hunt Meeting. $ 2.00 each. The needlework instruction booklet is $1.00 NORTH AUGUSTA-Miss South Carolina USA Enclose 25 cents postage and handling charge for each Pageant. order to be shipped to separate addresses. South Caro GREENVILLE- Miss Wade Hampton-Taylors lina residents please add 4% sales tax. Beauty Pageant. Send orders to Sandlapper Press, Inc., Box 1668, 20-21, 27-28 Columbia, S.C. 29202. SPARTANBURG-Pinewood Shopping Center- South Carolina State Women's Bowling Tournament.
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21-26 MYRTLE BEACH & GRAND STRAND Canadian-Arnerican Days. 22-24 CHARLESTON- South Atlantic Garden Clubs ADVENTURES IN Regional Meeting. 22-26, 29-April 2 GE ORGE TOWN - Ge orgetown Hospitality SOUTH CAROLINA Week. 23-28 GREENVILLE-Memorial Auditorium- Holi day on Ice International. 26-28 ADVENTURES IN SPARTANBURG- Spartanburg Antique Show. SOUTH CAROLINA 27 History is enlivened for youngsters CAMDEN-Carolina Cup Races. in this new educational coloring 27-28 book published by Sandlapper Press, NEWB E RRY-Palmetto Poultry Association Inc. Lawn Show. APRIL Copies are $1.25 plus 25 cents post 2 age and handling (S.C . residents HARTSVILLE- Miss Hartsville Pageant. add 4% sales tax.) Mail orders to 2-3 Sandlapper Press, Inc., P.O. Box ROCK HILL- Winthrop College - Junior Wel 1668, Columbia, S.C. 29202. fare League Follies: "Much Ado About Something." $L2ii 3-5 A PUBl..lCAT!Ot-1 Of uru:l~PfeSJ.!nc. MYRTLE BEACH- Dunes Oub- 18th Annual National Golf Writers Tournament. 3-July 4 SANTEE-COOPER-World's Championship Landlocked Striped Bass Fishing Derby_ 7-11 CHESTER- Soaring Society of America Re gional Championship. 10 SPRINGF IELD- International Egg Striking Contest, plus the Governor's Fourth Annual Frog Jumping Contest. 10-11 BEAUFORT- Spring Flower Show. 14-16 MYRTLE BEACH - South Carolina Public Ser vice Authority Auditorium-Flower Show and Demonstration. 15 CHESTER- Miss Chester Beauty Pageant. 15-17 GREENVILLE-Textile Hall- South Carolina Health and Science Fair.
horse shows Mail check to: Sandlapper Bookstore MARCH P.O. Box 1668 20 Columbia, South Carolina 29202 AIKEN-Aiken Horse Show. 24 CAMDEN-Annual Camden Horse Show. AW4. Art in South Carolina 1670-1970 soft@ $7.50 APRIL AW5 . South Carolina Architecture 1670-1970 __ soft@ $7 .50 3 0 RAN GEBURG- County Fairgrounds- Horse AW6. Contemporary Artists of South Carolina __ soft @ $7 .50 Show. AW3. Complete three volume set in slip case ___ hard cover only 10 @$30.00 CHESTER- 4-H Oub Arena-4-H Club Horse (Please include $.50 shipping per volume and 4% S.C. sales tax.) Show. YORK-Optimist Oub of York Horse Show.
76 Sand lap per hat retired men and women enjoy getting together to keep Tin touch with old friends, to form new friendships and to keep abreast of the times is proved by the 17-year history and activities of the Clemson Retired Men's Club and its sister organization, the Clemson Retired Ladies' Club. The Clemson Retired Men's Club, one of the state's more un usual clubs, was conceived in the summer of 1953 by several retired men of the Clemson area. Thinking that they might find it mutually enjoyable to get together occasion ally, and that such meetings might help develop and maintain friend ships through their retirement years, they mailed cards to some 20 retired men of the community. Seven or eight of these men re sponded and gathered on August 5 at the Clemson Y.M.C.A. They played setback, elected a chairman and a secretary and decided on a date for their next meeting. From this small beginning the group grew steadily; in 1954 its scope was en larged and it was reorganized as the Clemson Retired Men's Club. For almost 1 7 years the club has met regularly; there are now 110 members and the membership is still increasing. At the outset it was agreed that the club would have no constitu tion or by laws, would collect no dues, and would remain informal, having no affiliation with any out side organization. A president, vice president, secretary-treasurer and program chairman are elected an nually. CLEMSON'S On the first Monday morning of each month the club meets for a coffee hour at the Clemson House. There is no planned program; the o Id-timers simply enjoy socializ ACTIVE ing-swapping yarns about past and present experiences, telling about their children and grandchildren, and exchanging opinions about local and national problems and RETIREES politics. While it is often difficult to call a halt to these conversations, By Stiles C. Stribling
March 1971 77 the last few minutes of the hour are would be something like 4,000 to devoted to brief biographical state 4,500 years. Perhaps no other club ments from two or three of the in the state has as many members members. This helps members, with long careers in as many dif especially the newer ones, to get to ferent organizations, activities and know one another better. On the localities. third Monday afternoon each While the club has no definite month a meeting with a planned project of its own, its members co program is held. Appropriate pro operate in the various programs of grams are planned to help retirees other local civic organizations and keep up with matters of interest. projects. Of all the projects and At the coffee hour meetings each programs on which they have member pays 30 cents for a cup of worked, the members are perhaps coffee or cold drink and a dough proudest of their part in the cre nut. After expenses are paid, the ation of the booklet, "Clemson-A small balance remaining is used to Good Place to Live," which was pay the club's incidental expenses. written for the club in 1961 by one If additional funds are needed, "the of its members, Fannie M. Simpson. hat is passed." With this arrange For 30 years Simpson was con ment the club has helped to main nected with Swift and Co. in Chi tain and develop fellowship among cago. Following his retirement as an ever-increasing number of retired director of research, he and Mrs. men and women in Clemson and Simpson came to Clemson, and for nearby communities. a few years he was a member of the While the original members were faculty of Clemson University, largely retired employees of Clem where he taught a class in livestock son University, the membership has broadened so that of the present 110 members approximately one half are not "Clemson men," but Informal discussion on subjects are men who have chosen to spend ranging from grandchildren to national their retirement years in the Clem politics is the usual fare at the clubs' son area. These men and their monthly meetings (above and below). Right: President S. White Rhyne, families have come from 15 states, flanked by George Aull, social chairman, with one additional member from and Fred McNatt, secretary-treasurer, Germany. It has become customary dispatches club business. to have both natives and new comers represented in the officers of the club. Still another unique feature of the club is the fact that its member ship brings together men whose ex perience and observations are based upon active and successful careers in such diverse fields as agriculture, education, industry, finance, insur ance, government and religion. Among the group are retired exec utives as well as long-time em ployees of many well-known or ganizations. While no definite check has been made, it is estimated that each of these men had at least 40 years of service in his respective career field. If this is correct, the total service represented in the club
78 Sand lap per -Photos by Hal Smith and meats. Simpson offered to It has continued in great demand to remind of the next meeting. This write the booklet because, as he and has been revised and reprinted committee includes a member from states, "The People here have been seven times. Another revision, now the nearby Central community, and so nice and hospitable, the climate in the planning stage, will bring the one each from both Walhalla and and natural beauty so appealing, booklet's information up to date. Seneca where there are also mem and the cost of living so reasonable For their program meetings each bers of the club. The calls have that I felt by preparing such a month the Clemson Retired Men's proved very effective in helping to booklet Mrs. Simpson and I could Club has been fortunate in being maintain good attendance. partly pay for the unmeasurable able to hear talks by leaders in var The retired ladies of the Clemson happiness that living in Clemson has ious fields, and in having slide area, also feeling the need for a given us." shows with appropriate commen period of fellowship and comrade In the booklet Simpson points tary by persons who have visited ship and not to be outdone by the out 21 reasons why he feels the many parts of the world. One of men, have organized the Clemson Clemson area is a good place to live. the most enjoyable and informative Retired Ladies' Club. Organized The club gladly accepted the offer meetings each year is the club's along the same lines as the men's of the Clemson Chamber of Com annual ladies' night. For several of club, this group also meets for a merce to sponsor the printing and these gatherings Dr. Robert C. Ed social hour at the Clemson House, distribution of the booklet. This wards, president of Clemson Uni on the first Monday morning each sponsorship is still in effect. Soon versity, has been the speaker and month. In addition to the wives of after the booklet was printed, has brought those in attendance up some of the members of the men's Simpson showed it to a friend who to date on the activities and pro club, the membership includes local was a syndicated writer in Chicago. posed developments at the univer ladies who have retired and a few The friend asked for a copy and sity. out-of-staters who have come to from it he prepared a story for his Committees appointed by the Clemson to live. column which appeared in about 30 club president play an important The members of these clubs are daily newspapers. In the story it part in its activities. These com proving that retirement years can was indicated that copies of the mittees include a program com be the best years of life. The in booklet could be obtained by writ mittee, a membership committee form al organizations they have ing the Clemson Chamber of Com which is on the alert for retired formed provide them with enjoy merce. The response was instan newcomers in the area, a welcoming ment, fellowship and a means for taneous; within a few days over committee, a sick and shut-in com continued participation in, and con 2,000 requests were received from mittee which keeps in touch with tribution to, today's world. 30-odd states and the club and the the sick and offers assistance if chamber of commerce had to raise needed, and a telephone com Stiles C. Stribling is Agricultural sufficient funds to pay the postage mittee, each member of which is Editor Emeritus, Clemson Uni and to have the booklet reprinted. assigned a group of members to call versity.
March 1971 79 THE CARRIAGE HOUSE-3200 Devine St., The illustration below was taken from INTERESTING, Columbia, S.C.-Round oak tables, brass beds, ice boxes, trunks, milk cans, tea carts, etc. WILDFLOWER UNUSUAL ITEMS NEEDLEWORK ART PA ER and SERVICES HAMPTON Ill GALLERY, LTD. Artists Blair, ::x = = = = AN T I Q U ES = = = = x: Bopp, Dreskin, Flowers, Halsey, Koons-Mon day through Friday, 7:00-9:00 p.m., Saturday, 11:00-5:00. Highway 29, 3 miles east of Green NOTTINGHAM ANTIQUES. 166 Alabama St., ville. Telephone 268-2771 anytime. Address: Spartanburg, S.C. 29302. Dealer to the discrim Taylors, S.C. 29687. inating. 18th and 19th century furniture. Deco rative accessories.
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BAYLOR SCHOOL. 79th year. Fully accredited. All graduates enter four year CUSTOM LAMP MAKING from unusual To purchase yg/lt p er send $2 college. Some scholarships for boys who items-lamp repairing. A large stock of lamp plus 25 ri posra'ge an a dling to : qualify. Summer camp and summer shades-handsewn, parchment, glass. We special I school. Dedicated teachers and coaches. ize in the restoration of antique lamps. O'Neil's SANDLAPPE'R Supervised study halls. Gu idance. Pictur Antique Shop, 355 W. Palmetto St., Florence, P.O. Bo 1668 esque suburban campus in mountain area s.c. on river. Unsurpassed buildings and Columbia, S.C."29202 equipment. Pictorial Catalog. 145 Chero kee Road, Chattanooga, Tenn. 37401. = ><::x ><::x>= N E E D L EWO R K ==><::x ><::x ~
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AUTHENTIC NEEDLEPOINT KITS printed on canvas. Carolina Gamecock, Citadel Bull Dog, Clemson Tiger. Kits with charts for other col leges. W ildflower Afghans as featured on the cover of Woman's Day Magazine. Imported ' yarns, materials, crewel, and needlepoi nt. As sorted pocketbook kits. Folline's Knit and Bridge Studio, 2926 Devine St., Columbia, S.C. 29205. Phone 253-9748. The readers of Sandlapper are discriminat
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