THE MAGAZINE OF SOUTH CAROLINA san One Dollar Twenty-Five FEBRUARY• 1971 South Carolina sau· 11.~ m11d1 battl<' as any stale durin/!. th<' 1m<'rirnn R<'l'olution - / .17 <'Tl/f. The 2.56-fJ I must . for af'i('io11<1dm. of. South Carolina his/on. · I I >11 '\,\T ,u1d .',\.~\ 1IJLB( >IL There are 77 ways C&S Bank can Action speaks louder. help you ... Checking Accounts, 5% Action Passbook Savings, In stallment Loans, Safe-Deposit Boxes, and Trust Services, just to the action bank name a few. Whether it's one serv The Citizens & Southern National Bank of South Carolina Member F.0.1.C. ice or all 77, you'll always get Anderson • Camden • Charleston • Columbia • Conway Darlington • Florence • Gaffney • Greenville • Greer • Inman number 78. Myrtle Beach • Rock Hill • Spartanburg • Sumter IN THE PAST 5 YEARS, THE READERS' COST OF LIVINCi HAS CiONE UP COMMENTS TEN TIMES MORE THAN THE Sandlapper welcomes letters to COST OF TELEPHONE SERVICE. the editor on matters of general in terest. We ask that the letters be held to 150 words or less. Excerpts TENTI from this month's letters are pre ./}'}~f sented below. @V~, We have enjoyed your magazine this past year-but may I offer a f ii.l~"~H ,: suggestion? Please explain in the table of contents what the cover ,~~~w photo is and give its location. It is ,~~}~/aYi, ~ so tantalizing to wonder and hunt ~~ II; for it! Your phone is one thing Mrs. Harold B. Smith 1'@ North Wilkesboro that hasn't been carried I Q Southern Bell away with inflation. l North Carolina i Most of the past year we have identified the cover photograph on *Statistics supplied by the last line of the table of contents U.S. Department of Labor. page. Our photo credits admittedly have been skimpy, but we do pro vide a brief description. Perhaps we can be a little more explicit in the future. Ed. Thank you for publishing an ar ticle on Charleston's symphony orchestra. Having a personal know ledge of the two orchestras men tioned I would like to state that there was no connection between the one started in 1919 and that begun by Miss Gibbon herself about 1935. As a child I played in the one begun in 1919 and remember as its moving spirits Miss Gibbon, Mrs. Martha Laurens Patterson, Miss Possibly the most beautiful sideboard we have ever offered Marie Baker who taught violin at a masterpiece by Kaplan-the wood is mahogany banded with Ashley Hall and Dr. Mary V. stainwood. The center drawer is partitioned for silver and McBee, founder of Ashley Hall. The the simulated tambour deep drawer is a noteworthy feature. orchestra rehearsed at Ashley Hall. The solid brass splash rail is optional. Available only in our Connoisseur's Gallery of fine furniture. Returning to Charleston in 1926 after having been away at junior college I found that orchestra no longer in existence. How, when and why it ended I do not know but there was no continuing governing ~ting?~~cf~ body which resurrected it in 1935 2 Sand lap per THE MAGAZINE sandl apper. IN COlUMBIA READERS' COMMENTS 4 NEXT MONTH 6 FALCONRY 8 C.W. Ki/bey AT LAST, A HUMORIST WHO CAN MAKE US LAUGH 13 Charles M. Israel KNOCKING ON THE OPRY DOOR 17 P.J. Williams THEY WORSHIP THE HIGH IRON 20 Tom Hamrick HOME IS COLUMBIA 25 Mary Charlotte Pierce 28 Irwin Ross -\ THE SHADOW MAKES SWEET THE LIGHT THE HERMITAGE 32 Sarah C. Spell PALMETTO QUIZ 35 INDUSTRIAL SITES CAN BECOME INDUSTRIAL SIGHTS 36 Nancy C. Yates "Hafen Von Regensburg", MIDDLETON PLACE oi I on canvas, 30x40" PLANTATION STABLEYARDS 39 Jean May by Leopold Reiser b. 1921 GOLF IS GRAND ALONG THE STRAND 45 James W. Thompson CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF COURSES 48 MR.FRANZ 52 Bill Marett BUY AN INCH AND TAKE AN ACRE 55 CONTEMPORARY JOHNS ISLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 58 Isabel L. 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Copyright © 1971 by Sandlapper Press, Inc. Sandlapper is a regis Monday-Saturday 10-5 tered trademark. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission. Cover: Middleton Place, site of Plantation Stableyards. Charles Duell. February 1971 3 or 1936. you or the author of your article Between 1925 and 1943 Charles- care to do research into the matter. ;O~SEED ton had a flourishing orchestra or Brings You Rare ganized, developed and conducted Mary Stewart Allan and Unusual by G. Theodore Wichmann, my Charleston, South Carolina Flowers violin teacher and a man of pre Park has all those hard-to-find kinds, eminent character and ability. This many of them Park orchestra was known as the Phil I wish to take this opportunity Exclusives. Choose from more than harmonic Symphony Orchestra of on behalf of the officers and 3,000 varieties-the Charleston, S.C. Its program for a members to thank you and your new, old favorites, as well as flower concert on April 27, 1942, showed staff for the fine [October] article rarities. a personnel of 70 players. Under written about our [German Mr. Wichmann we played as well as Friendly] Society. It was very well FLOWER BOOK /¥',ie,e/ More than 100 large pages with lavish use o! our ability permitted many of the written and everyone in the society nature·s color illustrate and describe them. great symphonies of Mozart, appreciates the effort put forth in Seeds, bulbs and house plants. Vegetables and growing aids, too. It's packed with Haydn, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky getting this article together. proven how-to-do-It gardening information and others. Being in this orchestra to assure success. Contains culture directions, was a tremendous learning exper C. Fletcher Carter Jr. pronouncing index. germination table. Mil lions depend on it !or its wealth of informa ience. It ended because World War President tion and the best seeds obtainable. II demanded all the energies of the German Friendly Society ------Send ------Coupon or Posturd Today -----, volunteer personnel, military and Charleston, South Carolina l Geo. w. PARK SEED co., Inc. : civilian. I 60 Cokesbury Road 1 I Greenwood, S. C. 29646 I About 1935 Miss Gibbon, who I Please send Park' s big FREE Flower Book. I I I had recently returned from New I read the article in Sandlapper I NAME ·( Pl~;.~ Pri~t) · · I York, started a string ensemble in about Dutch Fork's not being I I I irkii'r cili Ii. ·Ii...... fiox ·,.:,ci. I which a number of Mr. Wichmann's settled by the Dutch, but by Ger I I m ans from the Palatinate, with : POST oi:i:ice ...... : students played. When she started I I to develop a rival orchestra all much interest. Having been born l_s'rAre · · · · · · · · · · · ·· · · ···· · · ······iii> ····· J dropped out according to my be and raised in Dutch Fork, I am en lief, I being one of them. I myself closing a short sketch that might be The ii lustration below was taken from never played regularly with her or of interest to other Dutch WILDFLOWER chestra, now the Charleston Forkers .... Symphony, until 1959 when Donn My grandfather, John Leonard NEEDLEWORK Mills became its director and Mr. Sease, residing in Lexington PATTERN Wichmann himself joined the group County, bought two adjoining By Ad alee Winter as a violist. farms of 165 acres each, more or The supposedly comprehensive less, for two of his four sons-my article on the history of music in father James Hammond and his South Carolina in the Tricentennial brother, my uncle John Irby. The edition of the News and Courier farms were parcels of the Aull plan made no mention of the Philhar tation, which like many other plan monic Symphony Orchestra of tations in the South were divided Charleston or of Mr. G. Theodore into small farms after the Civil War Wichmann although his influence and sold to individual farmers. on the aspiring musicians of On the southern end of our farm Charleston was paramount for well and directly in front of Uncle over 30 years. In recent years in John's house stood an abandoned promotional articles for the cotton gin. I remember most vividly Charleston Symphony in local the large oaken cogwheel, which newspapers the same error of trying was lying tilted on the site of the to tie it to the abortive effort of gin. The ginhouse stood very close 1919 has been made. This letter is to the wheel and when I was about To purchase your pattern send $2 written simply to keep the record four or five years old I first visited plus 25 ri postage and handling to: of symphonic orchestral endeavors the site, which was nearly a quarter SANDLAPPER in Charleston straight as history is mile from my home. I have a letter P.O. Box 1668 written from the printed word. from a cousin, daughter of Uncle Columbia, S.C. 29202 There are many people who can John. She is four years older than I. S.C. residents please add 4% sales tax confirm the above statements if She writes as follows, "Yes I re- 4 Sandlapper ~@[?[?~ lliO(ill@ooo Life begins at 40! WISRADIO@@ A STATION OF COSMOS BROADCASTING CORPORATION CELEBRATING OUR 40th YEAR JULY 10, 1970 member when the gin was operated and seeing the loaded wagons com ing in. The wheel was pulled by three mules and I used to ride NEXT MONTH IN around on it. The wheel was discon tinued when my Pa and uncle Jim took four mules and went to SAND LAPP ER Columbia, forty miles away and brought back a steam engine, which was fired by a colored man living on our place by the name of Alf Jackson. He cut the wood nearby and they had a spring nearby where the water for the boiler was ob tained." The gin was abandoned when I EDISTO GARDENS first saw it, probably in 1893. The By John Faust steam engine had been removed, the cogwheel later was cut up and used as firewood. Late one after noon during a storm we children watched from a back window and saw the old ginhouse blown down and demolished. Later the lumber from the ginhouse was used to build a small house for a share cropper on our farm. Another gin was put in operation by a Mr. Singley at Jolly Street, which was more efficient, so all the BARBARA HUTTON farmers took their cotton there and our gin was discontinued. Later a MANSION still more efficient gin was put in By operation at Prosperity. Mr. Sing Tom Hamrick ley's gin became a victim of pro gress also. I remember riding on a wagonload of cotton to the gin at Prosperity where there was always a line of wagons waiting their tum. I remember coming home with the BROWN PELICANS VS. DDT cotton baled in burlap and the By Jay Shuler loose cottonseed hulls in the wagon and the cottonseed meal in bags. McCLELLANVILLE I must mention the fact that By Sallie Graham every farm raised its own wheat, DEVIL'S DAY AT DUTCH FORK which was ground into flour by a mill in Newberry. The bran was fed By Julian Mims to the livestock and the middlings made the best kind of bread, a treat CALENDAR OF EVENTS BAYLOR SCHOOL. 79th year. Fully accredited. All graduates enter four year • Art • Theatre • Tours college. Some scholarships for boys who qualify. Summer camp and summer • Music • Sports • Fairs school. Dedicated teachers and coaches. Supervised study halls. Guidance. 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I thought perhaps you might be interested to know that had Mr. June Carr chosen to remain in Johnson City he would have prob ably been equally as successful and happy. Johnson City has grown to ART/ ARCHITECTURE be a town of about 33,000 and is the home of East Tennessee State University with an enrollment of South Carolina about 9,000 and Milligan College -- ~oo with an enrollment of 800 students. 1670-1970 / 3 volumes (Mrs.) Martha W. Lee Johnson City, Tennessee AW4. Art in South Carolina 1670-1970 soft@ $7.50 I regret not seeing what Isobel AW5. South Carolina Architecture 1670-1970 __ soft@ $7 .50 Lawton said about Cotton Ed AW6. Contemporary Artists of South Carolina __ soft @ $7 .50 Smith in the September issue. I did see what Wayne A. Clark, Carrboro, AW3. Complete three volume set in slip case hard cover only North Carolina, said in his letter to @$30.00 the editor in the December issue, My check is enclosed for $ ____ pages 5 and 6. (Please include $.50 shipping per volume and 4% S.C. sales tax.) In case reader Carr and others Name ______are interested in an evaluation of South Carolina's Ellison D. Smith, Address------ 1864-1944, I can without hesi City State Zip __ tation recommend a great piece of writing by a scholar and a gentle Mail check to: man that appears in the latest Sandlapper Bookstore South Carolina Historical Magazine, P.O. Box 1668 pages 235 to 256. I refer to the Columbia, South Carolina 29202 (Continued on page 71) February 1971 7 The present absence of state laws offering protection to hawks and falcons may mean the future demise of the ancient 'sport of kings' in the Palmetto State. -Photo by W.L. Marter a co-nr By C.W. Kilbey 8 Sand lap per ver the centuries man has sought of the Falco genus of the family was a flight of big wild pigeons entertainment in a countless Falconidae. This group consists of passing overhead moving from the 0variety of ways. Some have 60 species of falcons which feed on feeding grounds to their roosts. A turned to poetry, some to the stage, live prey, killing their victims by wild pigeon in flight is fast, as any some to music. Others have found striking or catching them in the air one who has been on a pigeon or pleasure in accumulating wealth. or by diving on them on the dove shoot knows. But that partic And then there are those who have ground. They are often said to be ular evening, a pigeon was being become interested in hawks and the most perfectly developed of all pursued by a falcon. The falcon falcons. birds. Their distinctive feature is does not soar in the manner of a The ancient sport of falconry their long tapered wings which give hawk; instead, its long sabre-shaped was practiced by man even before them their tremendous speed. wings beat the air and propel it he learned to write. There is evi The peregrine falcon is the finest forward at unbelievable speed. The dence of the practice of falconry in bird for falconry purposes. It has an pigeon was overtaken by its pursuer Assyria as early as 722 B.C. By 875 estimated top diving speed of from so easily that it seemed to be A.D. the sport had been spread to the 180 to 200 miles an hour. It can moving like cold molasses. Then the British Isles and Western Europe by thus outdistance wild ducks, pi falcon struck, diving on its victim travelers and crusaders who had geons and animals with but little and appearing to strike at its neck visited or fought in North Africa. effort. These great birds are, un or head with its clenched feet. The These adventurers brought home fortunately, quite rare now in the pigeon's wings flopped aimlessly falcons and experienced falconers eastern United States. An amateur and it began to fall. But the falcon who had been captured or bought ornithologist in the Aiken County swooped on it again, fixed its talons as slaves. area reports that he has seen but into the pigeon and carried its For centuries hawking was the one within the Savannah River evening meal to a nearby tree. privilege of kings and titled folk Project area over the past few years, Quite an exhibition of sheer kill only. Then falconry almost died whereas a generation ago it was power. out as the privileged class lost the normal to see several there during On another occasion, at the canal serfs and slaves who had trained the winter months. administration's building at Balboa and cared for the birds. Its near The peregrine falcon is more Heights, a pair of bat falcons nested death was also hastened by the common in Europe, and recently on a ledge just above one of the invention of musketry. It was much they were put to use by the U.S. windows in the office where I was easier to harvest the fall crop of Air Force at an airfield in Spain. employed. These were small birds, rabbits, partridges and ducks with a Migratory and local birds congre almost black in color, and very firearm than with falcons. gated on and around the runways in speedy. They had to be, since their The popularity of the sport re large numbers. This posed a hazard principal food was bats, and anyone vived after World War II and now for air traffic, since birds can be who has seen a bat in flight knows possibly 2,000 persons in the sucked into the intakes of jet en that it can fly like lightning. One United State are full- or part-time gines in such numbers as to choke day a huge grasshopper flew into falconers. In Europe, where devo off the needed air and cause engine the office, much to the horror of tees spend more time at the fasci failure. The Air Force came up with the female employees. The insect nating sport, there are a number of the idea of catching and training was caught and tossed from a win organized falconry clubs. It has falcons to eliminate this hazard. A dow, the retriever making certain remained a leading sport in its dozen were enlisted and flown as that one of the little falcons was native land, Arabia, and there required to dive bomb the intruding watching. As the grasshopper ducks, pheasants, partridges and birds. After one or two such at opened its wings and started to fly, other game are regularly hunted tacks, the birds got the message and the falcon launched itself from the with falcons. moved to safer parts. ledge, timing his action perfectly. It Only female falcons are used as This writer, sitting on a patio did not strike the insect from above hunters. They are larger than the porch in the Panama Canal Zone but flew a loop and grasped the males and much more aggressive. one pleasant evening, observed a 'hopper in its talons while actually The falcon is a diurnal bird of prey falcon in action. Each evening there flying on its back. Then, lunch for February 1971 9 its young in one foot, it completed and falcons. Their purposes in as trapping hawks and falcons and the loop and flew back to the nest. establishing the project were to the proper diet and methods of But these two occurrences were interest the scouts in nature, par training after capture. long ago and far away. More re ticularly birds, and to make an The game laws in Georgia re cently, in North Augusta, South effort to get South Carolina's laws cently have been changed to give Carolina, Gerald E. Knighton and changed to provide eagle, hawk and protection to these fowl. It was Robert A. Conrad, nature counselor falcon protection. The idea had thought that nearby North Augusta and scoutmaster, respectively, of originally been that of Dr. I.L. would be a good place to initiate a Boy Scout Troop 98, decided on a Brisbin, ornithologist of the Savan South Carolina project since this new nature project for the troop. nah River Project Ecology Labora state's laws offer no protection for This would involve the trapping, tory. He agreed to serve the troop these interesting and helpful birds. training and exhibiting of hawks as technical advisor on such matters So Troop 98 and its adult ad- visors began trapping. The scouts found the kestral falcons or sparrow hawks comparatively easy to catch. They also tried, in vain, to capture red-tailed and marsh hawks. Calvin Zippier of North Augusta Live white mice were used in the displays a kestral falcon he traps as bait but the hawks could captured, trained and eventually not get to them to kill them. The released. These fowl, also known as sparrow hawks, are trappers usually watched the traps noted for their hovering ability. from a distance of about 100 yards. When a hawk was caught, they hurried to the spot to prevent it from injuring itself. Once a small, alert boy in a passing car saw the trap and white mice half concealed in the grass on the roadside. The whole family piled out of the car to stand around the trap and wonder what it was and why it was there. The would-be trappers hastened from their hiding place to explain and to prevent the loss of trap and mice. After the birds were caught the arduous task of training was under taken by young falconer-scouts Oscar C. Lemmon III, Gerald E. Knighton Jr., M. Raymond Holz worth and Calvin A. Zippler. Many hours are required for the training of a hawk. First it must be taught that its trainer is a friend, since a hawk that is afraid of its handler cannot be trained. After the hawk loses its fear, it is taught to come to the trainer on signal. This first stage takes at least two weeks. The bird comes to know that a certain signal, -Photo by w.L. Marter such as a whistle, means that the lO Sand lapper -Photo by S.J. Krasemann trainer has meat for it. The hawk daily. It is not a project to under Above: The hooked bill and then learns to come to the source take unless one has much spare sharp talons of this redtail hawk of his free meal. After several time. demonstrate the fowl's ferocity. Hunters prefer female redtails weeks, this is firmly impressed on The young falconers planned to because of their superior size the pupil, and the hawk will fly to exhibit their falcons and hawks at and aggressiveness. the trainer on signal from long the 1970 Georgia-Carolina "Won distances. The hawk is flown only derful World of Scouting Jam when it is hungry. For at least the boree" held in Augusta, Georgia. first two weeks of the training Their weeks of hard work were period, the handler must spend culminated in their exhibit called from 21h to 4 hours daily working "Hawk and Owl Conservation," or just holding the hawk. After which won a first-place ribbon at that, the trainer works with it for a the jamboree. Some of the newly lesser time, possibly l1h to 3 hours trained birds were flown before February 1971 11 crowds of over 500 spectators; yet notice them, finished her meal and favorite wintering ground for some they performed faultlessly. The then arose effortlessly high into the falcons and hawks. For instance, scouts' exhibit included a Harlan's sky ( exemplifying the cliche "free the little kestral falcons are fairly hawk and a red-tailed hawk or two as a bird"). scarce during the summer months loaned them by W.H. Robbins of Many hawks migrate to Central but are common during winter. Taylors, South Carolina. and South America in the late fall, Other hawks wintering here include Robbins himself is quite an particularly the broad-winged the red-tailed and red-shouldered; authority on falconry. He served in hawk. One of this writer's unusual Cooper's (a woods lover that is the Marines in World War II and memories carried from 29 years seldom seen); marsh; and-rarely then did what so many folks think spent in the Canal Zone is that of the sharp-shinned hawk. They come of doing: bought a small farm and the great flights of hawks seen in from Canada and New England but set himself up in business. He now Panama's skies in late October and they fly into a death trap when has some 5,000 chickens to keep November. Prevailing winds favor they enter the borders of South him busy. Long interested in them in their southward flight, and Carolina. Lack of protective laws falconry, Robbins had no oppor- they drift along by the hundreds gives anyone the right to kill them tunity to practice it until leaving high in the sky. Sometimes, to gain on sight. the Marines in 1946. Since then, height, they find a thermal updraft A hawk sanctuary, primarily for however, he has caught and trained over the rare flatland in the Canal use by migrating hawks, was re a number of these great birds. The Zone. There they form in a cone cently established on the southwest only one that is a hazard to his shaped flock-cone point nearest tip of 1,000-foot-high Kittatinny chickens, he says, is the Cooper's the ground-and circle and circle as Ridge near Dreherville, Pennsyl hawk. Speaking from firsthand they gain altitude riding the up vania. Until the mid-30s, this area experience, he reports that stories draft. Then they break formation was used by men who hid on this of hawk depredations against poul- and begin their southward glide peak and shot migrating hawks as try are greatly exaggerated. again. they sailed by. It is now called Sometimes it is necessary to re- Another memory is from aboard "Hawk Mountain Sanctuary," and lease a bird that has been trained a ship southbound about a day and it is the world's first such refuge. and kept in captivity. What does a half out of New Orleans. Hurri Although privately owned, it is one do with a captured hawk cane Hilda had caused many land registered with the National Park should it be found desirable to free birds migrating south to be blown Service as a national landmark. It is it? If the hawk was taken from the far off course. A number of these said to be the best place in the nest as a young bird, the falconer unfortunate travelers were in world to see these migrants. More must take it into the field and teach trouble and came hurrying out of such sanctuaries should be estab it to hunt. But if it was taken by the now-placid sky to perch in the lished to prevent the slaughter of trapping and has been exercised ship's rigging or fall exhausted on these valuable predators. regularly so that it continues a deck. Passengers gathered an aston And Scout Troop 98 has been strong flyer, it is merely a matter of ishing variety of birds and hand-fed working toward this end, not only removing hood and jesses (leg and watered them until land was by familiarizing the general public straps) and turning it loose. This again in sight. But two birds need with the art of falconry through was proved recently when a female ing no help passed the vessel-a pair their jamboree exhibit, but also by sparrow hawk, or kestral falcon, of falcons, possibly peregrines. continuing to work for the protec was released. She had been in They were holding steadily to their tion of these feathered predators. captivity for several months and course, flying with firm wingbeats a They have nearly 1,000 signatures had responded well to training, but few feet above the waves to get of South Carolinians on their peti it was felt she should be released. such updraft assistance as offered tion to effect changes in South The little falcon was put atop a by the wave action. They gave Carolina's laws to afford protection fence post with a last free meal of every indication of knowing where to them. fresh liver beside her. While she fed, they were going and needing no a pair of mockingbirds heckled her help to get there. C. W. Kilbey is a free-lance writer continuously. But she disdained to But South Carolina is also a from Aiken. 12 Sand lap per illiam Price Fox published his varied career. He has worked as a Workshop at the University of first collection of short stories, cook, caddy, librarian, refrigeration Iowa, where he supervises students WSouthern Fried, in 1962. Since mechanic, schoolteacher, athletic in their attempts to write. "Basi that time, Southern Fried and an coach, bellhop, packaging salesman, cally, I try to persuade them not to enlarged 1967 edition of the col creative writing teacher and screen take it so bloody serious," he says. lection, Southern Fried Plus Six, writer. Presently he is a writer-in "You know in golf everybody has a have sold almost half a million residence at the Creative Writers' natural swing. I try to get them to copies. In 1968 Fox published his first novel, Moonshine Light, Moon shine Bright, to wide critical ac claim and to the delight of devotees By Charles M. Israel of Southern Fried. He has also published stories in The Saturday Evening Post, Holiday, Sports Illustrated and other magazines. Almost all of his stories and the entire novel are set in and around Columbia. With solid humor and great human compassion, Fox presents a vast collection of char acters remembered from his boy hood and young manhood. No other South Carolina writer has so articulately portrayed South Caro lina life since World War II. Although Fox was born in 1926 in Waukegan, Illinois, he grew up in Columbia. He entered the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943 and served as flight officer until 1945. After the war he returned to Columbia and graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1950. Since 1964 he has been a full-time writer. Fox's readers are often amazed by the diversity of his interests, a diversity which is reflected in his 'AT I.AIT, A IIUMOIIIT -Photo courtesy J.B. Lippincott Co. WIIO CA# MAl(I UI I.AUii/' February 1971 13 Left: Southern Fried character Leroy Jeffcoat, in uniform 365 days a year, could mimic the greats but failed as a player for the Columbia Green Wave. _j a world we all remember-the world we recapture when we reminisce about our childhoods. And, like Mark Twain, Fox is able to expand the world of boyhood in a certain period in American history into the world of human life in all periods of the American experience. For Coley and Earl learn in the course of the novel exactly what Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer learn in the course of theirs-that their world is as beautiful as it is sordid, as good as it is evil, and that the American dream of the bounteous and moral life is not dead. All noteworthy modern South ern writers are characterized by their highly refined senses of place. Flannery O'Connor knows the soil and climate of Georgia intimately, and she is able to pass her knowl edge to the reader through her stories. And, of course, William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County stories tell us all we can ever know about rural Mississippi and its ---Copyright© 1962 by Fawcett Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. people. William Price Fox is no less a master of portraying the environ ment of his fiction. When Fox find out what their swing is and to in early Steinbeck or even Booth describes Columbia, the city takes stick to it." Tarkington," but as American on the reality of a character; we Fox's "natural swing" is evident readers survey Fox's fiction, they know Columbia exactly from his in all of his work. He tells stories of no doubt will be reminded of the description, from the smell of life as he knows it, and his eyes and humor and pathos of Mark Twain's wisteria on summer nights to the ears are particularly sensitive to the work. Indeed, another of America's legendary summer heat of middle countryside, the city and-most of most talented modern writers, Kurt South Carolina. When he describes all-the people of South Carolina. Vonnegut Jr., has said of William an epic baseball battle between the While his stories are peopled with Price Fox: Columbia "Green Wave" team and familiar South Carolina types, his "Thank God-at last, a humorist the tough team of the South Caro main characters are far from being who can make us laugh! What an lina Penitentiary, we know exactly purely types. They are real, three idea! Bill Fox stands a good chance what he is talking about. We see the dimensional people-people we've of capturing the love Americans sandy infield, we can experience all known. used to give Mark Twain in simpler the inevitable fights, and when a In his books Fox recreates the times." In Moonshine Light, Moon "Green Wave" player hits a grand timelessness of his experience as an shine Bright the boy heroes, Coley slam home run despite his hang American boy. The English critic Sims and Earl Edge, are latter-day over, we know exactly the emo G.G. Price writes that Fox's fiction Huckleberry Finns. Like Huck and tions felt by the crowd. In all, the has the "period charm I remember Tom Sawyer, Coley and Earl live in setting of Columbia is pervasive in 14 Sand lap per In so much of Fox's fiction, they are unforgettable. For exam Columbia is the city in which is ple, the adolescent heroes of his played out the human drama, and novel, Coley and Earl, are con the city serves as a large stage for cerned throughout the novel with human actions-actions of hap buying a car. Like so many Amer piness and great humor as well as ican fictional heroes, they equate actions of pain, fear and sorrow. the road with freedom. When they -Copyright© 1962 by Fawcett Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. The human drama and the human finally buy Lonnie Register's 1940 action played out in fiction elevate Hudson, a car which Lonnie has Fox's work above mere regionalism repaired again and again but has Fox's work; it helps explain char and tall story. The stories he tells never driven, they run into the acter and action, but most of all, would be as meaningful and as true problems of owning a car that sel Columbia becomes a dynamic if they were set in Alaska or in dom works. To support their car center for Fox's fictional art. South Africa. habit Coley and Earl get jobs as In fact, Fox is frequently at his With an economical and con cook and curb hop at Holly Yates' artistic best when he is telling what sistent fictional style and with the and Wilson Wade Hampton Peeler's the place of Columbia means to language that men really use, Fox short-order restaurants. And when him: creates characters who are as real as they lose these jobs, they try their They laughed and laughed and laughed. They sounded like dogs, and hogs, and screaming wild Richland County guinea hens. They sounded as if they had seen and heard the funniest, wildest thing in the world, and that they would never be able to stop. Their laughter shot up over the mud they had slid through, over the sand they had stuck in, back through the canebrake, through the pokeberry bushes and the black berries, all the way up to Bee Street. It came echoing back. It echoed back from the tin cans, the beer bottles, the deserted car shells, the broken bicycle frames, the rot ting tires and oil drums, and all the JESUS SAVES and REPENT YOU SINNERS painted on the backs of Burma-Shave signs. It echoed back from all the kerosene lamps and the black wash pots, the sagging overall hung clotheslines, the skinny hounds and weary cats, the mail order bed spreads and the Metropolitan Life Insurance calendars and Sears Roebuck catalogues filling the lives that filled the rows of rat-colored shotgun houses lining the streets of the Black Bottom section of Columbia. -Reprinted by permission of J.B. Lippincott Co. Above: Watts' store, scene of a ferocious pit fight between a wildcat and a Piedmont hound. Right: Listening for warps in Middlebrooks' bike repair shop. -Copyright © 1962 by Fawcett Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. February 1971 15 hands at making and selling moon on them, now you boys got to be work is always found in character. sh in e whiskey. Coley and Earl getting in to it." She snapped three Wilson Peeler is so proud of his frequently live on the edge of the beans in her wide lap. "Lord, it's barbecue sauce that he puts it on all gotten so bad around here Lonnie law, and they often are involved brings those filthy old parts right of his sandwiches, even the grilled with petty larceny, the police and up to the supper table." cheeses. In one of the stories in the courts, but like Huck Finn and -Reprinted by permission of Southern Fried, a gambler named Tom Sawyer, their consciences are J.B. Lippincott Co. Greenwood Keho is suffering from in the right place and they are al severe depression which can be ways true to their friends. cured only by electric shock treat Surrounding Coley and Earl are a Then there is Cowboy Strick ments; but the treatments are too cast of characters who are mostly land, the tall bicycle-riding paper expensive for Greenwood, so his humorous and quickly drawn. But boy who is 41 years old and has friend Chauncey, a car enthusiast, these characters are seldom carica carried The Columbia Record in the has Greenwood hold onto a spark tures. Fox has the keen ability of Mulberry area for 24 years. Cow plug wire of his Packard while telling us in a few words what we boy dresses in a 10-gallon hat and Chauncey revs the motor. The cure need to know about men and white cowboy boots and leather works! women and children to make them trimmed Western shirts. And there's In Moonshine Light, Moonshine familiar and lifelike for us. Here is Doc Daniels, the rather sad pro Bright, Coley and Earl manage to his description of Lonnie Register's prietor of the corner drugstore who flood a neighborhood with stinking wife Thelma, who is distraught with likes to drink beer and who unoffi sour mash slop on a hot August Lonnie's hobby of repairing his car cially serves the community as day. And Lonnie Register gets him night after night: physician and marriage counseler. self saved by Sonny Love, a travel Thelma was a tidy, matronly And there's Wilson Wade Hampton ing evangelist; he gives up beer woman who wore her short, graying Peeler, the owner of the Casa drinking and his Hudson in a fit of brown hair in a loose wave. She blanca, a barbecue restaurant. remorse which lasts only three raised up so she could see the Buick Wilson has invented a special bar days. behind the low hedge and slowly shook her head. "Cars, cars, cars. I becue sauce which is the pride of The most important thing that declare it ain't bad enough the men both Wilson and Columbia. Wilson's Fox tells us through his humor is spending every dime they can rattle life's ambition is to take a vacation his own joy and the joy of his trip to Paris, not to see the dancing characters at being alive. There are girls, as Doc Daniels suggests, but to no suicides or horrible deaths in his trade his barbecue sauce recipe for fiction, although human tragedy the most prized secret recipe of a often surrounds his characters. Below: Lamarr Peevy conducting noted French chef. a moonshine clinic in Richland They bounce back with joy from County, from the tale, "You Fox's fictional vision is largely their troubles, and his heroes usu Don't Smell It: You Drink It." humorous, and the humor in his ally search their consciences and finally perform right and moral actions. William Price Fox has a lingering love affair with South Carolina. For sure, it's a romance which takes place among Dr. Pepper bottles and barbecue sandwiches and mocking bird calls and hillbilly music, but his fiction always helps to tell us who we are. Charles M. Israel is assistant profes sor of English at Clemson University. William Price Fox's novel, Ruby Red, will be published this spring by J.B. Lippincott Co. -Copyright© 1962 by Fawcett Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. 16 Sand lap per STARS OF THE RIDGE JAMBOREE ARE ~ i~®lti~~~ ®~ ,roo~ ®lP~uf ~®®~~ By P.J. Williams Opry is on the air. Batesburg's Ridge Jamboree began in February 1966, in the town's American Legion hut. Be fore the year was out, however, due to crowd demand, Ed Crapps, owner of the show as well as two country music radio stations, had a much bigger facility (The Barn) under construction. Completed in early 1967 and owned outright by he performers, or "artists" as Crapps, the Batesburg Civic Audi they prefer, arrive around 7 torium is now the jamboree's home. Tp.m.-an hour before showtime, Since that time, many a country allowing for tuning up and a brief and-western group has gotten its rehearsal before going on. The start within. Equipped with a sound audience-usually 400 to 500 system identical to Nashville's, the strong and representing both rural jamboree is broadcast live over and urban South Carolina-has been WBLR-FM and reaches an audience anxiously awaiting curtain time within a 100-mile radius. since even before 7 p.m. They come The entertainers and performers early and leave late because they who appear on the show have don't want to miss any part of it. either to audition or be personally The show begins promptly at 8 recommended for an appearance. p.m., as it has every Saturday night Once they make it, they perform without exception for the last four once every month or six weeks. years and a few months. George Their pay consists of expenses, a Hydrick, emcee for the evening and live audience and radio publicity -Photos by Dan Upton regular country music disc jockey and exposure, and, as a bonus, the on WBLR, Batesburg, takes the drop-in every now and then of a stage. '' Ladies and gentlemen, talent scout representing a major Each week hundreds of Midlands music welcome to star time on the Ridge recording company. enthusiasts pack Batesburg's Civic Auditorium for the Ridge Jamboree Jamboree." The audience responds Talent for the jamboree comes country music show, featuring performers with a loud applause and South out of the Carolinas, Georgia and like Ginny Lynn Bozard, above. Carolina's answer to the Grand Ole Tennessee. Ginny Lynn Bozard has February 1971 17 been a regular on the jamboree for state. During a recent performance James Tuck, is scheduled for release the last two years. A 1 7-year-old at the Ridge Jamboree, the audi early in 1971, and he has long been junior at Orangeburg High School ence was so captivated by her sing planning and organizing a country and billed as "Pretty Miss Ginny ing that they kept calling for an music band that will be ready to go Lynn," she taught herself to play encore, which Ginny Lynn oblig when his time has been served. the guitar at age 11 and began sing ingly rendered. It was the first ever There are many others. Bruce ing and playing country-and for anyone at the jamboree. Mullin of the state of Washington western numbers with a band at the "A good audience really helps and Williston, South Carolina, is age of 13. She has entertained at me," Ginny Lynn contends. "As now living in Nashville and "knock the Lexington County Peach Fes long as I think they're pleased, I'm ing on the Opry door." Every tival, the Chitlin Strut at Salley, the pleased. I just hope to be able to month he commutes to South Caro Santee-Cooper Country Derby keep improving for them. Then, lina for his turn at the Ridge Jam Awards Night Festival, the Colum one day maybe I'll reach my life boree. He currently has contracts bia Township Auditorium Country time ambition of being a star on the with Dot Records and R.C.A. The Music Show and at other special Grand Ole Opry." Among her cre Stephens Brothers and their sister, events and festivals throughout the dentials is the fact that her father six-year-old Bronwyn of Spartan- was a country music singer in his earlier days and a personal friend of the late Hank Williams, and she is considered the most popular female singer ever to perform at the jam boree. "Red" Hutto and the Sand Mountain Boys come from the Columbia area. They've played in both Carolinas and Georgia for special occasions and at fiddlers' conventions. Red, a fireman by trade, started picking and singing country music about six years ago, and it didn't take him long to set his goal on reaching the top in the field. Since he leans a little toward "bluegrass" music, the top for him is the Wheeling Jamboree in West Virginia. He points out that it is the original of the jamborees, with The Barn in Chicago and Nashville's Grand Ole Opry following in that order. One of the original and always crowd-pleasing groups performing regularly at the jamboree is Warden Strickland and the Congaree River Boys. They've played at many of the major festivals all over the state during the last several years. They've been together for quite a spell, and it looks as if they'll con tinue to stay together for a while longer yet. Most of their many spectators are unaware that their name tells their story-home for them is the state penitentiary. How ever, the group represents rehabili tation at its best. The lead guitarist, 18 Sand lapper burg, have been singing together as a family for most of their lives. Upon request, they've put on special shows for governors of North Carolina and Florida and for Lynda Bird Johnson, and they've been in the same shows with such country music idols as Marty Rob bins, Red Foley and Buck Owens. Little Bronwyn has already been a guest on the Grand Ole Opry. Then, there are Jerry Shirley and the Wheels from Belton. Jerry is 24 years old and a fence contractor. His sister Annette is 19 and works at the Belton Blanket Co. They and A variety of performers appear at the Ridge Jamboree. Far left: Nashvillian Bruce Mullin, who commutes each month for a Ridge appearance. Center: Ginny Lynn Bozard, from Orangeburg, backed by Jerry Shirley and the Wheels. Above: Eight-year-old Beth Crider of Columbia joins Red Hutton and the Sand Mountain Boys for a buck dance and her special rendition of "Your Cheating Heart." the rest of their group have: been country music appeals to more steady performers at "The Ridge" people in the United States than for a little over two years. They got any other kind. It is truly a part of started in the country music field our great American heritage." because they liked it and as long as One thing that each of the they keep making their audiences groups and entertainers has in com happy, they feel they can keep mon is the burning desire to go to going on to bigger and better things the top, to the Grand Ole Opry or and, ultimately, reach Nashville. to the Wheeling Jamboree. Regard Already, they've been guest per less of their current walk of life, formers on the Ernest Tubb Record they keep smiling and picking and Shop program, which follows the singing and hoping for the right Grand Ole Opry. opportunity. Most probably they Some of the music is happy and won't get it, but they are a happy some sad and some comes out with lot as they keep striving for it. They a twang-but it all seems to pour know no worry on stage. To each, from the heart. As one entertainer an appearance on the Ridge Jam said, "You know, a lot of people boree gets them a little bit closer. frown on country music because they think it is the thing to do; but, P.J. Williams is a free-lance writer in reality, they like it. In fact, from Springfield. February 1971 19 A rompted by nostalgia, a corps of To become a local member, the Their idea of a handsome holiday Carolinians occasionally flip on neophyte is required only to is to board one of four excursions a Ptheir hi-fi sets, settle back in promise that he'll worship from year, pulled by cinder-showering their easy chairs and listen to a here to eternity the sound of a steam engines all but forgotten by rhythm which only they could steam locomotive pounding and the general public, to such points of endure again and again. Whether pulsating down a highway of high historic rail interest as Branchville, the volume is high or low, the iron. Membership in the Charleston Aiken, Columbia, Augusta and sound is all the same: a railroad chapter includes, naturally enough, Savannah. And they're the kind of train determined to chug from the some 30 people who are ( or have people who are so convinced that record player and thunder across been) active in rail service. steam railroading will never entirely the living room rug. But they're the minority. die that they 're eager listeners to Charleston Steam, 40 unrelieved Most of the members represent the record album Charleston Steam, minutes of recorded huff and puff, such diverse folk as the governor of an original recording taped by Bap whistle and wheeze of a century of South Carolina, a red-haired Sum tist College Prof. Fred Worthy and steam railroading, is nothing short merville girl newspaper reporter, a his wife Susan, of the huff and of the music of romance for the Columbia business executive, the snort of locomotives-from the 316 male and female members of mayor of Charleston, doctors, mili polite cough of the replica of the the Charleston chapter of the tary personnel, lawyers, used car 1830s Best Friend to the earth National Railway Historical So salesmen, dentists, pretty young shaking asthmatic crescendo of the ciety. Although the chapter, with a blondes, mothers and grand steam titans of this century. membership roster which stretches mothers. They're the type of en No sooner had the chapter been from coast to coast, is one of the thusiasts who rush down to a rail organized in January 1967 than the youngest of some 100 such groups siding in Charleston on weekends to initial membership of 32 began in three countries, in three years it busy themselves in an unpleasant rummaging the countryside in quest has grown into the largest. Statis ocean of goop and grease, paint of a locomotive of its own, even if tically, more than six per cent of brushes and power hammers, to it meant creating one from scrap the entire membership in the maintain with adoration the 20 metal-and it almost did. United States, Canada and Mexico pieces of retired-but-operational rail Using the installment plan, the is now associated with the Charles equipment from yesteryear which rapidly expanding chapter signed ton group. the chapter has collected. on the line to pay $300 a month to THEY VVO~SHIP TBE HIGH IRON / By Tom Hamrick 20 the ultimate tune of $15,000 for a towed the locomotive to Allendale, ship, the distaffers turned out with chunk of rail iron which no longer and the Southern Railway provided the males in the task. As Mrs. had the energy to move even a foot similar gratis transit help in tugging Thelma Estes, perhaps as invol under its own power. Their now the relic from there into a siding in untary spokeswoman for chapter beloved No. 44 had been rusting to Charleston. The obvious remedy for femalekind, notes, "a lot of the death on a siding at Miley, 70 tons its ailment was total dismantling ladies would much rather come out and 10 huge wheels of a 40-year-old and rebuilding from cowcatcher to and work on rail equipment than locomotive last employed in the cab. What hadn't rusted, had clean house." service of a lumber company in the rotted. Then began the 1,500 man Their labor of love today stands little South Carolina community. hours expended by the chapter to on a rail siding in Charleston-spic One member recalls that "it was in restore the antique to the huff-and and span, shining steel and ebon such terrible condition that it puff of peak performance and to black. It now is worth "easily some looked as if it was being held return her cosmetically to every $40,000," according to W.D. "Dot" together only because the Almighty inch the proud beauty she was Shults, president of the chapter loved it." when she was first introduced to since its inception. Two railroads came to the rescue the rails back in 1927. "Of course, nobody in the of the chapter and their stranded Since milady makes up roughly chapter would think of parting with purchase. The Atlantic Coast Line one third of the chapter's member- it for anything like that," the Cole Walters' rare "Columbia" type locomotive before restoration was begun. Wooden cabs such as this are unusual. -Photo by Carter Siegling --Photos by Edgar Dodd 65-year-old retired Southern Rail needs do is tug on the big brass ters for high-level railway execu way master mechanic adds hastily. engine bell beside the mailbox. tives. It sports a lavish living room, Shults comes from a family with an But one locomotive does not three bedrooms, a kitchen and aggregate of 300 years' employ make a train, so the chapter busied quarters for attendants. It is an ment by the Southern Railway. He itself accumulating what now elongated palace built to be moved himself has 44 years of service, amounts to a junior-sized railroad. by coal. including duty as general foreman Donations from rail lines in Dixie Much of the chapter's rail stock for the line in Greenville, where of rolling stock destined for the is utilized on quarterly excursions. during World War II he and his scrap heap because of changes in The trips are almost certainly sold Greenville crew "maintained and trends and tastes slowly began to to the last space since the chapter turned around" up to 124 engines build a rail empire for the organiza allows nonmembers to buy tickets every 24 hours. tion. King-size gifts included a Pull to fill any excess seating. As each He never really left the rail man car, two mail cars, two baggage excursion pulls away from the plat world. He brought it into his home cars, a pair of stainless steel stream form, a horde of the unlucky watch with him upon retirement. A vis lined passenger coaches no older wistfully as the locomotive gathers itor's eyes dart from a parade of than 1946 ( one of them named the power and thunders into the dis pictures to relics and remembrances South Carolina), eight heavyweight tance. Profit from the excursions is of railroading which dominate metal coaches of the Roaring used to help underwrite the every room in his home. His mail Twenties, an elegant rolling restau $300-a-month installment tab on box in the front yard is crowned rant dating to 1926, a powerful their reclaimed iron horse, beloved with a metal casting of a locomo steam derrick and an "office car." No. 44. (Other funds are derived tive; if the postman wants to alert The latter, a present from Sea from sales of the record Charleston him that the mail has arrived, all he board, is a plush rolling headquar- Steam and a substantial offering of 22 Sand lapper other railroading souvenirs ranging man today isn't cognizant that But as one member notes, " no rail from wall plaques to tie pins.) what he means is that there are a line in the world could afford to One major excursion every year pair of locomotives supplying the operate with the kind of loving care carries up to 700 persons from all power at the front of the excursion. the excursion special gets." over America to the gala Raylrode The Southern Railway, one of Members of the chapter con -~) Daze celebration in Branchville, 64 the godfathers of the chapter, genially disagree with an occasional miles from Charleston. The town readily loans a 100-ton locomotive kidding contention from friends came by its name because it was a dating to 1904 to the chapter to that they are "choo-choo cuckoo." pre-Civil War meeting point for the pull tag-along excursion cars. Still, they readily admit to being Ham burg (North Augusta) Chapters in Birmingham and "kids who never grew up-being in Columbia-Charleston embryo rail Chattanooga also rush to the rescue love with the sound of a steam network. with their own polished and pre locomotive pounding its way down -I Shults claims the trip to Branch cious giants. the track," as one member views ~ ville "is the natural thing to do . Although federal railroad regula their romance with the rails...... -1 This is the site of the oldest branch tions stipulate that only still-active To provide an added thrill for of railroading in the world. Our rail professionals can "drive" the excursion riders, the train stops at people really look forward to trains, the internal operation is Dorchester and disgorges its pas dining in the restaurant in the carried out by the chapter's sengers on a grassy roadside 30 depot which has been restored by membership. miles from Charleston. Then the the citizens of Branchville. A lot of B.W. Varner, a retired railway empty iron queue pushes itself people in Carolina don't realize it, conductor who is now a chipper 70, backward a mile, swallows and but Branchville had the first rail is ever on hand to preside volun digests new coal and comes thun road restaurant in America." Aiken, tarily over a function he once was dering back at 60 miles per hour to another key point on the run of the paid to handle. Other members delight photography fans. Best Friend in the 1830s, is also a work the combination baggage Across the country, the major popular excursion target. refreshment car. Member Dr. J.H. railroads lend willing hands to the Some of the steam treks draw Warren is there to remove cinders chapters, regarding them as potent such massive attendance that up to from smarting eyes and a nurse forces in preserving much of Amer 15 coaches are used and it takes a member is also aboard for most ica's historic rail stock which other pair of engines in tandem to haul trips. At stopovers, unpaid grease wise would have been captured by the human cargo. Old 44 can monkeys check hotboxes and other rust or blast furnaces. A Southern proudly tug a string of cars but maintenance service personnel take Railway official visiting the local "when you get up to 15, that's a lot care of the myriad of minor details chapter claimed that "without the of train, so we doublehead," Shults any railroad needs in order to offer interest and dedication to history explains, forgetting the average lay- top power and safe performance. and hard work on the part of such -Photo by Carter Siegling Left: 1,500 hours of labor was neces I sary to restore No. 44 to her former glory. Below: A typical weekend scene during restoration. Right: No. 630 leaves Columbia on her way to Charleston. February 1971 23 chapters as the one in Charleston, $4,000. The replica, currently being relations campaign to have the many of the steam locomotives and ferried by rail car to various points national headquarters moved to the other stock now being preserved in South Carolina as Sandlapper port city. would vanish in future generations. country observes community-based "This is where it belongs," Shults America owes these people a debt tricentennial fetes, will be housed insists, "because the railroads of of gratitude much taller than this under glass in Charleston when the America were born in South Caro country will come to realize until state's big birthday party has run its lina." the future is with us." course. Biggest feather in the chapter's It is because of such dedication The Southern Railway, owner of cap to date was the massive three that members happily volunteer to the historic Aiken house on the country turnout of 1,000 members restore an engine which isn't even corner of Charleston's Ann and for the 1970 annual society con theirs, as in the case of Mr. and Mrs. King streets, provides the chapter vention in late summer of last year, Cole Walters who needed help in rent-free use of the two upper held in Charleston for the first reclaiming from antiquity a 30-ton floors. The rail line will join with time. "They poured in here like eight-wheeler of 1904 vintage the chapter in easing the Best they were coming to Mecca," one which they purchased from a brick Friend into the courtyard there and member beams. yard in Macon, Georgia, for $2,500. en shrining it for posterity. The For good reason, too, since the When they had finished, the Walters chapter is happy at the thought. chapter had set up one of the had a piece of equipment worth The Aiken house was the site of grandest displays of steam-era about $20,000, Shults claims. The planning which gave the little train rolling stock in the nation's recent chapter loves the One Spot with the its birth. Inside the three-story history. Parked on a siding in same affection bestowed upon it by downtown building the chapter has metropolitan Charleston-and open the Walters. Mrs. Walters contends ample space for its office, a to public view-were six well "we were nuts to buy it," but she 100-seat meeting room and a rail preened monsters of the glamour means not a word of what she says. road museum. age of railroading. And in the yard Walters, who has a heavy equip Membership recruitment is never about them were a covey of spot ment business on King Street a problem for the chapter. Every less passenger cars from which Extension, has some 800 feet of rail monthly meeting brings forth a new millions of persons from past gen siding on his property there and spate of interest from applicants erations saw a nation slipping past this is home for much of the anxious to lay $10 a year on the them at eye level. chapter's rail stock. Other pieces of line to enlist. One member insists Some of the delegates, appro equipment are held in safekeeping that the real reason Breck Pegram priately decked out in high on the grounds of the U.S. Army left Wilmington, North Carolina, to crowned railroad caps, snapped Depot in North Charleston. Walters set up a CPA business in Charleston scores of pictures. Others minutely is the president of the Charleston was his interest in the chapter. The examined every bolt and driver and chapter and a director in the same individual goes on to name piece of upholstery. A few of the national society. several other members, active and delegates stood quietly and looked, Hero of the organization is retired, who he believes were as impressed as kids and not caring Horatio Allen, the chief engineer of prodded into moving to coastal who knew it. the Best Friend which began its Carolina simply because they These fans are often seen by regularly scheduled rail runs from wanted to be close to fellow onlookers along the excursion Charleston to North Augusta at travelers of the steam age. The man routes; they hang from the open Christmastime, 1830, panting along may not be joking; steam devotees vestibules to inhale grit, cinders and at 21 miles per hour. Allen is can be that dedicated. raw smoke as the train huffs along credited as being the father of the They call it the "Charleston on its quarterly treks. A lot of them line. chapter," but it has members across even disdain the plastic cinder The Best Friend is now gone, America-four in North Carolina, shield goggles the chapter sells for except for a few bits and pieces. one in California, two in Ohio and 25 cents, preferring the sting of These remnants were included in an enthusiast from Massachusetts. warm cinders on their cheeks to the the replica built by the Southern Even Bloomfield, New Jersey, is 20th-century air-conditioned Railway in 1928, and the tiny, represented in their ranks. The comfort of the rail cars. colorful train and its three cars are members flock to Carolina at excur Even when the run is spent, the frequent visitors to the Charleston sion time. memory of a day riding the high chapter where the assembly is The national society was iron lingers on. petted, polished and worshiped by founded and incorporated in 1935 the membership. The original in Maryland, but the Carolina group engine, a product of a more stretch has already launched a low-pressure Lt. Col. USA (Ret.) Tom Hamrick able dollar 140 years ago, cost only but considerably effective public is from Mt. Pleasant. 24 Sand lap per FOR MANY PERSONS OF FOREIGN ORIGIN Home Is Columbia By Mary Charlotte Pierce uring her first Christmas season come to appreciate the "No Smok in America, A ustrian-bom ·ing" signs in American theatres. DGertrude Baxter baked her first But it was not so easy for Mrs. fruitcake. A Columbia neighbor Dimock to become accustomed to told her to soak it in wine. She did. driving on American roads. When "It was a disaster!" she laughed. taking her driving test, she drove "Sure-I know what 'soak' means. straight out on the wrong side of 'Soak'-like your laundry. I did not the road. know she meant sprinkle a little A similar problem faced Yong here, a little there!" Sik Choe, native of Taegu, Korea, Even the English have trouble when he took his driver's examina with American words. When the tion. The officer took one look at Julian Dimocks' builder told them his driving permit and said, "Come there would be two lavatories in the back for your driving test in about master bath of their new home at two weeks." The permit had been Lake Murray, they were surprised. issued three days earlier. When he said the lavatories would "I had to learn to drive," he be side by side, they were aston explained, "so I took lessons. But ished. the officer thought, for my own "He even asked us what size we safety, I should wait." wanted," Yvonne Dimock said. From the encouragement of two "We didn't know what to say." former servicemen, who had been Th en they discovered that in stationed in Korea, Choe decided to America, lavatories are washbowls. come to America. He first went to They are toilets in England. Lexington, Nebraska, where he Next, it was the builder's tum to worked for the father of one of his be surprised. He was asked to install friends. After a few months, his four large hooks in the bedroom employer thought he would have -Photo by Richard Taylor· ceiling to which heavy ropes would more opportunity in a larger city so Attired in the traditional sari, Renu Wadhwani, from Bombay, is one be tied. These ropes hold the they began to investigate job open of many foreigners now living couple's nautical bed. ings in Omaha. Then he heard from in the greater Columbia area. The Dimocks-sailing enthusiasts his other friend in Columbia. from Brixham, England-left their Driving his newly acquired auto home on the Devonshire coast of mobile, he-with his wife, Sunja, Mrs. Choe, who occasionally has the English Channel in August 196 7, and 18-month-old daughter, difficulty understanding the speech after Julian accepted a position as Sunga-arrived in Columbia in May of some of her customers in their design engineer with the Columbia 1969. There was an apartment and Oriental gift shop, said slowly: branch of a national company. a job waiting for him. "Americans are so kind. The nurses Besides loving the lake, they like Asked about customs they have were always saying, 'Can I get you many of the local customs and are found most different, he said: "We something?' when I was in the now taking for granted many of the do not have many babysitters in hospital." things which caused confusion Korea. Only a few wives go out to Their 18-month-old son Michael when they first arrived. The full work and then someone in the was born in Columbia. Since opening bearded Englishman likes such family keeps the children. You do the business about 10 months ago, Southern specialties as grits and not pay them. If you would offer the family has lived in an attractive blackeyed peas, and both have to-that would be a shame." apartment behind the shop so that February 1971 25 Mrs. Choe can stay close to the to leave town or something," he master of the new family. children. laughed. "Married women wear many Sunga is learning to speak Mothers-in-law in India have the bracelets and a red spot up here," Korean because, as her father says, privilege of changing the first name the Bombay native said, brushing she is Korean. "She will not hear of their son's wife. her hand across her forehead. "The the language if we do not teach-her "The wife has to take the new red spot means that your husband and it is good to know two lan name even if she does not like it," is alive." Sindoor is the Hindu word guages." said Renu Wadhwani, whose first for this traditional dab of rouge, He finds it hard to remember to name had been Shobha (meaning sometimes worn as a decoration by call his co-workers at a Columbia beautiful), before she was married. an unmarried woman but never by bank by their first names. In Korea, Dressed in a soft, flowing sari, she a widow. elders are always addressed as "sir"; continued, "We do not date like Her husband, Manu, is a me parents are never called by their Americans do and our marriage chanical engineer. The Wadhwanis names; aunts and uncles are called, ceremony is very different. We do lived in Canada for two years be simply, "Aunt" and "Uncle." not exchange wedding rings." fore being transferred to Columbia "If you called an elder by his Instead, after the priest has pro two years ago. first name you would be supposed nounced the couple husband and "My mother was glad for me to wife, a long sash is placed around live in other countries," she said. the man's neck. With one end tied She has found many differences to the woman's dress, they walk, in eating habits among the coun several times, around an open fire. tries, and says that even though He walks ahead showing that he is they do not eat beef in India, and though she does not eat meat, their three-year-old daughter, Anita, loves the American hot dog. While a student at Columbia Left: Korean Sunja Choe and her three-year-old daughter Sunga in the College, Maro Myda Kouyoumjian family's Oriental gift shop. Below was told she would be served sev (L. to R.): Austrian Gertrude Baxter eral Southern delicacies at a school with some old-world wood carvings; get-together. Yvonne and Julian Dimock, from "They turned out to be hot dogs, England, afloat at Lake Murray; Maro Rogers performs an Armenian boiled peanuts and watermelons," dance while a teen-ager in Iraq. she laughed. Today, she teaches such dances to Born in Baghdad, Iraq, and now her Lexington kindergarten class. the wife of Lexington's mayor, 26 Sand lap per Hugh Rogers, she came to Colum where the students, including the to see it, the tree is completely bia 18 years ago with a full scholar Rogers' four children, have enjoyed decorated and all the presents wrap ship for her freshman year. "People learning Armenian dances and folk ped and placed around it. Some expected me to be dressed unusual songs. times a wisp of angel hair is left like they had seen in the movies. Although Armenians no longer near the window as proof that the They were surprised to see me have a country of their own and tree was brought by the angel, wearing loafers and a ponytail." have lived among pagans, they re Christkind. After Christmas Eve Still speaking with a rich Arme main Christian, she said, adding supper, the father rings a bell and nian accent, Mrs. Rogers said, "My that when people have been per everyone goes in to see what the English wasn't very good and I secuted they are more inclined to angel has brought. couldn't understand such expres cling to their church. "It is a beautiful thing with all sions as 'over yonder' and 'I Mrs. Rogers enjoys Turkish cof the candles burning," Mrs. Baxter reckon.' " fee, but has to order it from Bos said. She had planned to return to ton. Always served in small cups, After the presents have been Iraq when she finished college but this strong, syrupy beverage pro opened and tea and cookies served, there was an opening for a teacher vides entertainment for women in the children go to bed. The grown in Lexington and, since it was the Iraq. Turning over their cups, they ups go to midnight mass. More than middle of the school year, she tell each other's fortune. 90 per cent of Austrian people thought she would teach for a few "They stretch their imagina belong to the Roman Catholic months. She rode the bus to Lex tions," Mrs. Rogers said. "The Church. ington for the interview. grounds run down the sides and For her first Christmas in Colum "It was about 8 o'clock in the make something like a picture. It is bia, Mrs. Baxter put up a spruce morning and the bus came up Main always a good thing that they see." tree with real candles. "The neigh Street and stopped at a little place Other lands have their special bors thought I was going to set the for me to get off. It was cold and customs and beliefs, too. It is con house on fire," she laughed. Still everything was closed. The town sidered bad luck in Austria if there insisting that her tree be a live looked quite sleepy. It was really is dirty laundry in the house on spruce, she noted, "I would not have like you would see in the movies." Christmas Eve. Asked why, Gert an artificial one.'' Selected to appear in the 1967 rude Baxter replied, "Your house She met her husband Robert edition of Outstanding Young must be in good order. (from Latrobe, Pennsylvania) while Women of America, she says she "No decorations are put up until he was stationed in Austria with the has learned that small towns are the Christmas Eve," she continued, U.S. Army. Following their mar core of this country. "and the spruce tree is decorated riage, he came back to the states For the past seven years, she has with real burning candles." and was sent to Ft. Jackson. She owned and operated a kindergarten Before the children are allowed joined him just in time to begin the new year of 1957 in a new country. One of her former schoolmates had been a prisoner of war at Ft. Jackson during World War II, and after returning to Vienna had told her much about South Carolina. "The countryside looked just like he said it would," she said. It took her a while to get used to the vast, almost-flat terrain; the wide roads, the spacious super markets. It took only one soaked fruitcake to learn that American words can't always be understood in their literal translation. She still visits her family in Vienna, but now, living in their new home, the retired army man's wife says, "Austria isn't home anymore. Home is Columbia.'' Mary Charlotte Pierce is a free-lance writer from Cayce. February 1971 27 THE MAKES n the world of nature, flight and thought them gone when suddenly of deer. pursuit are ever-present; there is they reappeared, skimming along When I emerged from the fra Ihardly a patch of earth or sky the marsh. The valiant drake, after grant woods onto the beach, the which, day or night, does not wit a swift semicircle, flew once again sun had not risen. Beyond the ness this eternal drama. Tragedies over the creek and, to my amaze beach the shoals extended for some there are-perhaps essential to the ment, dropped low to the water. distance, affording a superb display strange and ponderous balance of While the black harrier, bewildered of "white horses." I was awaiting nature-but there are frequent by the disappearance of his prey, the sunrise, standing on the crest of escapes also. shot northward over the waterway, a gray dune, when suddenly I was For instance, I remember the the fugitive came skimming by my aware that I was not alone. time I flushed a mallard drake and canoe at breathless speed. Not far Out of the thickets a great stag hen from a meandering Carolina behind me an old canal branched had burst upon the beach and was creek. I was paddling along, ad off the creek, and into this dim now racing toward me. Behind him miring the subtle colors of dawn, shelter the mallard swerved. The a hundred yards or less was the re when the vast silence was shattered race was over; the mallard was safe lentless hound. For all his superb by the whir of wings. The drake in the overhanging reeds. wild vigor, a stag with a heavy and hen I had just startled sprang Another exciting sunrise escape crown of antlers, and on sandy upward in standard fashion, the that comes to mind took place in footing, can eventually be pulled dim light gleaming on their wet one of the most romantic and down by a persevering dog. plumage. beautiful regions of America-the The stag ran heavily; once he Hardly had these fugitives mysterious sea islands of the Caro stumbled, then went on. The cleared the lotus fronds when out lina and Georgia coast. hound, stimulated by his gains on of the heavens swept an immense I was strolling along the beach his intended prey, steadily closed black shape, cruel as the sword of early one January morning when a the life-and-death gap between an executioner. It was a bald eagle, breathtaking drama suddenly them. At any instant I expected the just off his roost on a giant yellow erupted in front of me. The pre gallant buck to swerve into the pine. liminaries had been going on most friendly woods. But I was about to The hen dashed wildly away over of the preceding night. Deer witness a far more adroit maneuver. the marsh. The eagle turned upon poachers had been on the island the When almost opposite me, the stag the resplendently plumaged drake, week before, and in their hasty de turned toward the thundering surf. and frantic fugitive and relentless parture they had left behind a great As he did, the immense golden sun follower vanished from my sight. I black hound-an insatiable follower appeared over the ocean, making 28 Sand lap per SHADOW By Irwin Ross SWEET THE LICHT the waves sparkle. Straight toward the sun the buck turned. Dashing through the spark ling shallows, he plunged into deeper waters. A huge breaker broke over him, hiding him momen tarily. When he emerged, he was swimming, a splendid fugitive sil houetted against the sunrise. And what of his stubborn pur suer? The sagacious hound had turned toward the sea when the stag turned, in an attempt to cut him off from the water. But he was too late and he had no relish for the plunging seas. Crestfallen, he re treated to the dry beach where he sat facing the ocean. Meanwhile the stag had come to rest among the waves which broke on the hidden shoals. He was literally up to his neck in water; now and then the spume veiled him completely. After watching the wary strate gist for awhile, I gave my attention to the dog. I asked him in my most discourteous tones what he was doing there, and he fled down the beach. And what became of the deer? I left him in his wild and soli tary sanctuary. He would stay there until the rising tide compelled him February 1971 29 to come ashore, but he would not gobbler teetered slowly up this in knew how to feed her child better come all the way to the beach until cline and at length reached the top. than I did. The following morning he was certain his enemy had gone. He had achieved elevation, but he my pathetic little captive was dead. Wild creatures, when wounded or knew that a wildcat might follow When I recounted this experience disabled, resort to amazing strata him. To reach a more secure spot, to a local ornithologist, he said: "A gems in order to survive. Once the wary old tactician took a mother mockingbird, finding her when I was in the woods at twi mighty leap and, beating his good young in a cage, will sometimes light, I saw a wild turkey in a pa wing, made his way to a towering take it poisonous berries. She thetic dilemma. One of his wings oak where he would be safe from thinks it is better for one she loves was broken and dragging on the prowlers. to die than to live in captivity." ground. Night was near and it was When I was a boy, something It is not mere chance that directs high time for the gobbler to be up happened which cured me forever such stratagems. It is high intelli in a moss-shrouded cypress, but he of wanting to cage wild things. gence, trained to act swiftly in could not fly to roost. To stay on Mockingbirds were abundant in our moments of peril. Wild creatures the ground would be fatal, for a fox yard on the Carolina seacoast, and are born to danger, yet they sur or wildcat would surely catch him. I, not content with hearing them vive. Assailed by deadly harass In this apparently hopeless sing from the trees, decided to ments, they carry on gallantly. We plight, however, he was not at a make a grand opera singer out of a should not feel that life is less sweet loss. Nearby was a tree that had squawky young bird. to them because of its hazardous been splintered some 20 feet from On his second day in the cage, I dilemmas. the ground. The break had not been saw his mother fly to him with complete, and the treetop formed a food in her bill. This attention Dr. Irwin Ross is a free-lance writer long incline to the ground. The old pleased me, for surely the mother from Chicago. , '' 30 Sandlapper We bum a lot of coal. leave no carbon waste at all. Of course, we're not the only ones. But we never want you to get wind We also borrow a lot of water for South Carolina is a leader in pollu of it. our steam plants, but you'd never tion control. That's why the electrostatic waste know it. And we're trying to be the leader collectors we're installing on our Because we return it to the stream in South Carolina. high smokestacks are 99% effective. or lake in its original clean, clear SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS COMPANY And we're investigating fuels that condition. We try to make life easier. Alice Is the Unseen Hostess at The Hermitage By Sarah C. Spel I any interesting homes have used as ballast were thrown over attracted attention during the side into the harbors and rivers. MSouth Carolina's tricentennial Many of these stones "paved" the year, and stories of ghosts that streets of Charleston and Savannah. inhabit the old residences are not In 1910 Willcox's mother traced unusual. A good example of a the imprint of the original circular house with a benign ghost is the drive in the recent growth of pines Hermitage on Waccamaw Neck-an and restored it, planting the moss appealing combination of the his draped cedars which line the side toric and the mysterious. The story drives and the circle. of the beautiful Alice Belin Flagg is The front door is bordered by often what interests visitors most, -Photo by Herbert Spell side and overhead transoms in for she is a favorite among the A stone marker at the Hermitage inspires which most of the panes are orig spirits who roam the marshes of poignant memories of Alice Belin Flagg. inal glass. Halfway to the back door Murrells Inlet. is a second door with similar tran When Dr. Allard Belin Flagg built soms. The back door is flanked by the Hermitage on a point of land through the field about half a mile side transoms only. The house has surrounded on three sides by tidal to reach the winding one-way road six high-ceilinged downstairs rooms marshes, he placed it within a grove to either of these places." arranged along a central hall. Meas of live oaks which at that time This year the home was placed uring the length of the rooms, the (1849) were undoubtedly 100 years on the Georgetown tours con flooring is of 20-foot lengths of old. Supposedly given to Flagg's ducted by the ladies of Prince virgin heart pine. Dowel trim, per mother by her brother on the con George Church, Winyah, the his fected by apprenticed slaves trained dition that the doctor build there, toric Episcopal church of George by overseers, decorates the parlors. the land might well have been a town. Over 400 persons, including An angular stairway leads to the wedding gift, for he was married 93 from out of state, reveled in the second floor, where there are two during the following year. Accord unspoiled atmosphere of this struc 20 by 20 bedrooms and a central ing to Clarke A. Willcox, the pres ture, unchanged except for periodic room connected to the front attic. ent owner, "The property con painting. In the words of Mrs. Will Over the front porch is a round tained 937 acres. On the north, a cox, formerly Lillian Rose of hinged window, skillfully formed bank thrown up by slaves separated Marion: "We have had no desire to with curved spokes and a central it from Sunnyside plantation, home follow the modern trend and have eye. The charm of the house lies in of J. Motte Allston. On the south, not destroyed the atmosphere gen its simplicity and the ample size of Dr. James Grant owned the land erated by the combined natural the rooms. west of the present King's Highway. integrity of the house and the There are many antebellum One hundred acres at the eastern beauty of its surroundings." homes, some older than the Hermit end of the south line was the prop The structure is fronted by white age, in the Georgetown area of the erty of the Rev. James L. Belin, columns, 49 inches in circumfer Waccamaw Neck, but few have who left the tract to the Methodist ence at the base and hewn from stood the test of time or have been church. For decades the Hermitage solid trees. The front steps and lived in through all these years. was isolated," Willcox continues, walk are of sturdy English ballast Many have been victims of fire; "When I was a boy, Sunnyside and brick, used to prevent the light sail others have been abandoned; some the Belin property were our closest boats' capsizing in mid-ocean. When have fallen into the hands of neighbors, and we had to go the demand was slack, cobblestones absentee owners who do not allow 32 visitors. The Hermitage, however, exudes hospitality. Both natives of the state and tourists from distant places enjoy sharing the atmosphere preserved in a deliberately careless way. No description of the Hermitage would be complete without the legend of lovely Alice Belin Flagg, the 16-year-old sister of the doctor. Engaged to a man in the turpentine industry and aware of her brother's disapproval, she wore her ring on a ribbon around her neck and con cealed it inside of her blouse when she was at home on vacation from finishing school in Charleston. Her mother, fleeing from the dreaded malaria season, was in the moun tains. At home the doctor was tend ing his patients and operating the farm. Following her happy debut at the spring ball in Charleston, Alice Left: Shrouded by moss, the Hermitage retains much of its original appearance. Below: Alice's bedroom looks as though her appearance is anticipated. -Photos by Ernest Ferguson February 1971 33 An antique grandfather clock flanks the central hallway door of the Hermitage. was suddenly stricken with the fever prevalent in the area. The school authorities sent for Dr. Flagg, who was experienced in treating fevers. After equipping the family carriage with articles for Alice's comfort, he set out with a servant over miserable roads with four rivers to ford-a four-day trip one way. Willcox relates this portion of the story. "Upon examining his delirious sister when they arrived home, he found the ring. In great anger he removed it and threw it into the creek. Thinking she had lost it, Alice begged everyone who came into her sickroom to find the ring-her most cherished possession. Sensing her distress, a cousin went to Georgetown and bought a ring. When he pressed it into her hand, she threw it on the floor and in sisted that they find her ring." Alice died prior to her mother's return from the mountains, and was buried temporarily in the yard. When her mother returned, Alice's body was moved to the family plot at All-Saints Episcopal Church on the river opposite Pawleys Island. Among the imposing stones raised in memory of the other Flaggs, a flat marble slab, upon which is en graved the single word "Alice," -Photo by Herbert Spell marks her grave. The conjecture of an older resident, "Perhaps she was that there is an undeniable feeling of the ocean put the expectant one so beloved that is all that was of her presence, more real than a "in the mood." At such times the needed," fails to dissipate an ob visual appearance and far more beauteous Alice becomes real to server's feeling of sadness. Often a impressive. She returns on moonlit even the most matter-of-fact be vase of flowers appears on her nights when the shadows of the holder. grave. The donors are unknown. restless moss, the eerie cry of the Willcox remarks, "Among the Young people often walk around it whippoorwill, and the distant roar things that living here does to me is 13 times, lie on the grave and, as restore my soul." After 15 years, they say, "talk to her spirit." It is when friends mention how well he said that a young girl who runs The story of the discovery of a and Mrs. Willcox look, they answer, "We came down here to die. We around the grave nine times with portrait of Alice in Washington her eyes closed will find, upon state, and a photo of it, appear in didn't know it would be so much opening them, that her ring has the volume Musings of a Her fun, or we would have come disappeared. mit by Clarke A. Willcox. See sooner." Still searching for her ring, Alice the Sandlapper Bookstore for Sarah Cannon Spell is a free-lance visits her old room in the Hermit details for ordering the book. age. The owners of the home say writer from York. 34 Sand lap per !',, i/,,, P~i';~~~~,, Q~,i~',,, i/,,i O.T.E ...·=· ....[. ·- -~_.,1:,. - · + DISTRIBUTORS .: .. :.. :.. :.. ~. ~. :.. :.. :.. ::. :.. :.. :.. :.. :••: :• =· =··=··=· ::• :•. :•: ..... :.. : •: : : =· !· :•: •! ·!· ::• :: .: !•: •! : : : : ::-+-: 1. 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Slave Chins Devices; General Orders Head quarters department of the South; Confederate A. 80 B. 7 5 C. 82 Soldier woodcut; Horses wanted Notice; Calamity Jane handbill; Buffalo Bill Poster; 15. --- was named for an Indian princess who is buried beneath a store Annie Oakley Poster; Reward Posters-Billy the beside the railroad there. Kid; Jesse James; Frank James; Francisco A. Eutawville B. Monetta C. Jocassee Pancho Villa; Joaquin; Belle Starr; John Wilkes Booth; The Daltons; Black Bart; Bill Doolin. ANSWERS: 1. B 4. C 7. A 10. B 13. C BELLS COi N SHOP Box 276 2. B 5. C 8. C 11. A 14. A Tolleson. Arizona 85353 3. C 6. B 9. C 12. B 15. B February 1971 35 111111.1111. Ill.II By Nancy C. Yates Ill 111111 ew rivals for the famous Charles visitors are welcome to relax on the Clemson, built during World War II ton gardens are several Up immaculately kept grounds and to manufacture tire cord. NCountry beauty spots which fall around the flowing fountains and A 11 buildings at the Research rather uniquely under the heading pools. The spray pond separating Corporation in Spartanburg are "Industrial Sites." The best-known the two main buildings at the re designed to have visual appeal day of these is the Deering-Milliken search site has jet sprays at the and night. They are built of a Research Corp. at Spartanburg. water level and a fan spray at the specially cast concrete with a Situated on approximately 200 top of each pipe. The positioning, quartz surface which is illuminated beautifully landscaped acres, the diameters and heights of the pipes at night with floodlights set at corporation is proof of the effort are of random arrangement, creat ground level. put forth by Roger Milliken to ing an interesting effect. Tame Trees on the grounds include make his industrial sites havens of mallards and swans swim lazily on loblolly pines, longleaf pines, wil natural beauty. While behind the the pools or waddle across the grass low oaks, white oaks, Southern walls fully equipped laboratories, in hopes that visitors will have a (native) magnolias, Oriental mag pilot plants, research machine shops tidbit for them. nolias, sweet gums, black gums, and technical libraries employ the Buildings, parking lots and ginkgos, beeches, maples, cedars, talents of thousands of South streets are functional as well as crabapples, pink and white dog Carolinians in productive textile beautiful. The Milliken plants are woods, crape myrtles and several research and organization, the windowless, one-level buildings varieties of cherries. Azaleas, ca grounds provide a pleasant garden with artificial lighting and air con mellias and rhododendron line the like atmosphere. ditioning. The pioneer example of walls and walks around the private At the Research Corporation this design was the Defore Mill at Peach Queen Guest House. Flower- 36 Sand lap per beds are constantly abloom with seasonal flowers-tulips and daf fodils, pansies, petunias and chry santhemums. For several years now the Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce and the Spartanburg Men's Garden Club (the largest men's garden club in the nation in membership) have jointly sponsored a landscape beautification judging tour. In the spring and fall, teams of judges rate each of the 125 participating firms and organizations on the landscape beautification efforts. The top three winners are awarded framed certificates. Once having won first place, the firm or organization is not eligible to compete again for four years. As might be expected, the Research Corporation won a first in its cata gory in 1963 and 1967. Previous winners are the Citizens and Southern National Bank, office facilities of Dr. John 0. Watkins, Spartanburg County Library, Sulzer Brothers and Hercules, Inc. The Milliken beautification in terest has spread to the Spartan burg-Greenville Airport. Milliken and the late Charles E. Daniel of Greenville combined their efforts to make any visitor's first impression of South Carolina one that will not be quickly forgotten. Sweet gums, willow oaks, magnolias and dog woods flank the entrance to the air port. From the windows visitors can see immaculate flower beds planted with seasonal flowers and regimental rows of crape myrtles and live oaks. Recently the jetport received a commendation from the Federal Aeronautics Administration " ... for taking a lead in stimu- Far left: Azaleas bloom around the guest I I house at the Deering-Milliken Research Corp. Left: Wrought-iron gates open to a picturesque view of Deering- Milliken Management Information Center. Right: Magnolia Finishing Plant at Blacksburg, named one of the Ten Outstanding Plants in the U.S. in 1963. February 1971 37 Left: Swans and other tame birds roam about the Deering-Milliken grounds. Below left: An aerial view of the Milliken Tetra Pak Plant at Whitestone. lating national airport beautifica tion programs by making its aerial gateway a center of culture and beauty." The airport became an official port of entry on July 1, 1970. Richard K. Webel of The Studio, Roslin, Long Island, is the principal landscape architect who works with Milliken on his industrial sites. We bel has an impressive list of projects to his credit, including public housing, American military cemeteries, country clubs, indus trial facilities, museums, parks and gardens. According to Webel, the first aim is to bring employment to a com munity, then to draw up plans for plant and surrounding acres and to pick a site which is compatible with the plans. Rapport is developed among community, labor and management when all have pride in their industrial surroundings. Every detail of entrance roads, parking areas and flower beds is included in the master plan. In Webel's words, "The building usually looks modern and nice and sits where it can be seen by day and night. We try to incorporate natural beauty and native trees and shrubs into the master plan, and to place color near the entrance and parking areas so it will be a pleasant scene for workers, customers and visitors. With the Deering-Milliken Research Corp., we even went out to the highway and planted trees in our efforts to beautify." The Milliken plant locations in 20 South Carolina towns, and the numerous other facilities in North Carolina, Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania are good examples of these principles of industrial beautification. Nancy Coleman Yates is a free-lance writer from Spartanburg. 38 Sandlap per winter and continued through the spring. World War II slowed the tourist flow, and in the prosperous decades after the war subtle changes were occurring in the tourism pattern. Any season became a vacation season. Families in campers and trailers, young couples in their economy cars and retired folk in comfortable, air-conditioned auto mobiles took to the highways. Middleton Place drew its share of the new breed. But something was lacking. A livelier, more complete interpretation of what the place represented was needed. There was an acute void in the case of families traveling with children. The young sters needed something to occupy their impatient energies. And there was the need to attract tourists throughout the year. -Photos by Bill Jordan Middleton Place Stableyards offer a unique and educational attraction for young and old alike. Left: A mule-drawn wagon laden with observing youngsters circles the stableyards. Above: Under the watchful eye of an expert, a young visitor tries his hand in the cow milking demonstration. February 1971 41 mule-drawn wagons and are en the reflection pool-an authentic thralled by the sights of hens nest 18th-century touch-and displays ing and cows being milked. The of stone crockery in the original animals are gentle and roam free springhouse show how a plantation where they may be petted and fed. family refrigerated its perishable Nothing is artificial or contrived. foods. While the appeal to children was Scarcely pausing to enjoy the anticipated, the reaction of their fruits of recent accomplishment, elders was something of a surprise. Duell and his family and staff are Many relive the pleasures of a farm thinking about the years ahead. The childhood and take a keen interest first item on a 10-year agenda in in the demonstrations of crafts. cludes the planting of summer and Senior stableyard guides are fall blooming perennials. The new -All photos courtesy Middleton Place Anna Perry and Mary Sheppard flowers will be a reality in 1971, whose memories of Middleton Place adding color to the summer and fall chickens and turkeys. span a half century. Taking up their months. But the agrarian show wouldn't posts in the household sections, Forthcoming developments will be a show without people. A staff surrounded by the apparatus of include the opening of the remain was acquired to serve as costumed candle- and soapmaking, leather ing wing as a house museum, the guides on the walk back through tanning and spinning, they give planting of demonstration crops of South Carolina's early history. modern homemakers a glimpse of rice and indigo, the complete res On a crisp, clear March day the the expertise and muscle power toration of the rice mill to working stableyards were opened to 2,000 necessary for basic survival in condition, an archeological dig on invited guests. Their excited re another century. After a few turns the site of the mansion's ruins and sponse was a good omen. The of the hand-operated millstone used the construction of an orientation spring brought a record visitation, to grind corn into grits, guests are center near the garden entrance. including more than 6,000 school convinced. Meanwhile stage one is turning children in May. Holding its col James Kidd, master wheelwright Middleton Place into a 12-month lective breath, Middleton Place and blacksmith, presides over the attraction, often to the bemuse waited to see if summer doldrums blacksmith shop and pounds horse ment of local residents who're would set in. But records continued shoe nails into souvenir rings when accustomed to thinking of Charles to be broken, and by summer's end he isn't occupied with the more ton's gardens as a dead issue after more than twice as many people serious work of repairing a carriage the brief spring season. A neighbor had visited Middleton than during wheel or shoeing a horse. Nearby, ing plantation owner dropped by the previous year. Edward Smith, a skilled craftsman, on a hot August day and expressed The tourists liked what they mans the carpentry and coopering surprise to find a gateman actively found-a past that is alive, wearing shop. The great wheel lathe elicits selling tickets in the "off" season. simple and believable garb and questions and Smith demonstrates For Middleton Place there is no exisiting in an atmosphere of fresh the hand-powered tool with pride. longer an off-season. The winter ness that replaces, for a few hours, He reconstructed it from old and spring bring the extravagant the fume and frenzy of an urban sketches and uses it today to show and traditional beauty of camellias world. how the craftsmen of the 18th and and azaleas. The new perennials will Youngsters clamor to ride in the 19th centuries were able to produce brighten the summer and autumn the beautiful plantation-made fur months, and throughout the year niture so highly prized by antique the plantation stableyards are of fanciers. interest to visitors of all ages. While much attention and hard It took tremendous vitality to work has been poured into the establish Middleton Place those stableyards, the gardens have not long, long years ago. Then came the been neglected. There are new bleak decades of bare survival. Now points of interest here, too. Under the new surge of energy takes hold, the direction of the garden man propelling Middleton Place toward ager, Ben Chapman, new walkways the 21st century and a continuing have been constructed along the place in the state's rich heritage of shaded banks of the Ashley River. living history. These cool routes are especially pleasant for summer visitors. Jean May is a free-lance writer from Black and white swans inhabit Charleston. 43 GRAND ALONG ike the fabled swallows who way down to historic Georgetown, Day. Everybody went away but the each year unerringly return to "a blessed part of God's country," residents, who wouldn't budge even LCapistrano, thousands of Amer- according to George Washington. for an infrequent hurricane. ica's golfing devotees now load A unique, closely-knit com The rebirth of the beach was no their gear into their cars, into char munity, Myrtle Beach normally has accident. It began a long time ago tered or commercial airplanes and a population of about 15,000. But when the Woodside brothers, even into luxury yachts and head for many years now this has Greenville textile industrialists who southward to a winter wonderland zoomed to an astonishing 200,000 built Woodside Mills and then the of golf. in the good ole summertime when 18-story Woodside Building (now The goal of these traveling the vacationers swarm in like lo the SCN Building) in Greenville, golfers is Myrtle Beach-the focal custs to bulge all the accommoda focused their aim on the develop point of the 50-mile-long Grand tions along the strand. ment of Myrtle Beach. They, with · Strand that stretches from the Not so long ago Myrtle closed Col. Holmes B. Springs, built the Little River fishing paradise near the shutters on all but a few hotels, luxury Ocean Forest Hotel on the the North Carolina border all the motels and restaurants after Labor oceanfront and built and beautified 46 Sand lapper By James W. Thompson "Canadian Weeks" in Myrtle Beach. Hundreds of Canadians, taking the invitation to heart, came and saw and have returned each year. From a beginning of three golf courses, Myrtle Beach now has 10 championship courses that attract THE STRAND some of the finest golfers in the world. Immaculate Pine Lakes International Golf Club was the streets. The farsighted developers first of the championship courses, died before all their dreams came and the famed Dunes Club and Surf true. Club are among the best in the One of the men who helped put world. The presence of this great the spotlight on Myrtle Beach as a trio presented a challenge for the golfing paradise was George Miller builders of subsequent golf courses, (Buster) Bryan, a foresighted busi who strove to design even more nessman who built the handsome beautiful layouts. The carefully Caravelle Motor Hotel. He con planned picturesque newer courses ceived a golf-motel-meals "package are Myrtlewood, on the Intracoastal plan" that had an instant appeal to Waterway; Robbers Roost; Quail golfing groups. The idea caught on Creek; Possum Trot; Litchfield; and has been adopted by every Beachwood; and Sea Gull. All of major hotel and motel along the them have marvelous greens that strand. delight the duffer and traps that It was Buster Bryan's idea to test the mettle of the expert or pro awaken the Northern golfers to the fessional. advantages of Myrtle Beach for the The climate is an inducement to winter golfer, when the cold anyone avoiding the "frigids." The weather "froze" them into their mean air temperature between 10 armchairs back home. a.m. and 4 p.m. along the Grand He got the cooperation of mer Strand ranges from 54 in December chants, bankers, golf clubs, other and January to 83 in August motel owners, restaurant owners, making year-round outdoor sports shopkeepers, the chamber of possible. commerce and even the gun-shy The favorable climate and the city council. The word was spread package plan have worked wonders and Northerners began to drift for the Myrtle Beach area. Hotels southward in search of winter golf. and motels (nearly all of them) They drove through tall pines and offer seven days and six nights of weeping willows lining the high vacation time, with lodging, green ways and coastline and discovered fees and varying arrangements for the immaculate greens of the golf meals, for prices ranging from $70 courses spread like jewels for miles. to $130. The plans guarantee start They found the ocean breeze soft ing times, which are booked almost and invigorating, except in the early solid during peak months. mornings. A prominent motel executive It was Bryan, too, who instigated commented: "Except for what nature has done for us, golf is the greatest thing that has happened to Left, counterclockwise: Water hazards abound at the Surf Club. the Grand Strand, and the package Myrtlewood's attractively landscaped plan is the best thing that has ever clubhouse. No. 12 at The Dunes happened to golfers." features a tidewater marsh hazard. Right: A pretty golfer demonstrates concentration and form in a James W. Thompson is a free-lance tee shot at Beachwood. writer from Greenville. February 1971 47 COURSES ALONG THE GRAND STRAND Pine Lakes Country Club. The Myrtle Beach, the Dunes club was aries there are 26 lakes, and only oldest club in the Myrtle Beach designed by Robert Trent Jones three holes are free of water. Com area, Pine Lakes' par 71 course was and is considered by many as one pensating features are the level designed by Robert White, first of the 10 best courses in the eastern greens and occasional, though president of the P .G .A. White's love part of the country. The course's longer, approaches that avoid the of nature is evident in the pictur most remarked-upon feature is the lakes, but the course still provides esque lakes and graceful oaks that 13th hole, a 575-yard dogleg from plenty of challenge for both novice adorn the course. Two memorable the championship tee which re and expert. A distinctive feature of holes are the 13th, a 460-yard par 4 quires a 180-yard second shot over the course is the exclusive use of and No. 7, a beautiful layout that water. The big lake contains alli has been featured in Golf Digest. gators and, naturally, hundreds of Situated near downtown Myrtle balls and even a few clubs tossed in Beach, Pine Lakes appeals to family by frustrated duffers. Left: The lntracoastal Waterway groups and has facilities for swim The Surf Golf and Beach Club. provides a scenic backdrop for many of Myrtlewood's fairways. Below: ming, horseback riding and dining. Water hazards abound at the Surf Two methods of escape from traps at The Dunes Golf and Beach Club. Club, 161h miles north of Myrtle Pine Lakes and Quail Creek, and Located seven miles north of Beach. Within the course bound- a long but level putt at Possum Trot. -All photos courtesy of Parks, Recreation and Tourism - February 1971 49 Tifton 320 Bermuda grass on tees, natural growth of cypress, holly fairways and greens. On the par 3 and pine are fairways planted with 13th hole the golfer faces prevailing Tifton Dwarf grass. Regulars say ocean winds as he tries to clear the the perils of the back 9 more than water stretching from tee to green. make up for any apparently easy Myrtlewood Golf Course. Con holes found on the front side. sidered by many as one of the most Course architect Russell Breedon beautiful courses in America, the calls No. 16 "the greatest hole I've Myrtlewood site commands a view ever built." Many would have to of the Intracoastal Waterway Ph agree. miles north of Myrtle Beach. The Quail Creek Golf Club. Ten miles flat fairways are deceiving, for there inland from Myrtle Beach lies a are hills and valleys aplenty waiting course featuring some water, plenty for the unwary who happen to of sand, and trees enough to keep stray from the straight and narrow the golfer on his toes. Laid out in of the fairways. Built on clay rather flat pine woodlands, with water on than the sandy topsoil typical to five holes, there is plenty of variety the area, the Myrtlewood site was in the course. From the challenge part farm, part swamp before the tees the total course length is 7 ,300 coming of the waterway. yards; holes range from 145 to Robbers Roost. Featuring color 590 yards (615 yards if you play ful names for each hole (to go along the red markers). with the club name), this demand Possum Trot Golf Course. Near ing course is located 1 7 miles north North Myrtle Beach and Cherry of Myrtle Beach near Cherry Grove. Grove lies Possum Trot, a course Complementing the attractive whose holes are each characterized by titles such as "Oh, No," "Let 'Er Fly" and "Concentration." No. 11, "Big Possum," is a long par 4, Below: A foursome putting on the No. 7 green among the live oaks at memorable for its elevated green I Litchfield. Above: Tall pines, level fairways and plenty of sand are and prevailing headwind. Opened in characteristic of Beachwood. Right: A careful tee shot at Robbers Roost. January 1969, Possum Trot is set in a pine forest, and offers fewer water hazards than many of the other Grand Strand courses. Called a "long but friendly" course, Possum Trot is planted in Tifton 2 3 8 on tees and fairways and Tifton Dwarf on the greens. Litchfield Country Club. De signed by William Byrd of Atlanta, the Litchfield course encircles a plantation-style clubhouse. Also interesting are the birdhouses built to attract martins-Litchfield's program for insect control. The par 4 No. 3 hole is the course's toughest, according to most players. The elevated green is reached through a narrow neck of woods halfway down the fairway. Second most difficult is the 540-yard No. 16. An S-shaped fair way leads over or past three lakes to a double-level green. Beachwood Golf Club. Sixteen miles north of Myrtle Beach and near the 50 Sand lapper ------"ti----4 ____ l LITTLE RIVER/11 J.'fl .~ 'lJ:,/?;/// r.Pi~~ ~OBBERS ROOST POSSOM TROT~ '~CHERRY GROVE \ BEACHW~ ;~~;RTLE BEACH s T~ ~i rf;/ / 1-,=8r1NE LAKES;f'// ., DUNES QUAIL CREEK 1 MYRTLEWOOD MYRTLE BEACH socAsTEEr~Bf Distance from downtown f/URFSIDE Myrtle Beach !!// Beachwood 16 miles '.Ji GARDEN CITY Ii Dunes 7 miles 0 Mt RRELLS INLET Litchfield 21 miles Myrtlewood 1;/i miles 0 Possum Trot course lies what is -\ (@ I ine Lake 1 mile known as the Grand Strand's Nevada \ ITCHFIELD Possum Trot 16 miles course. Posing few water hazards, the Quail Creek 10 miles Beachwood course was designed for .)~.~ ~ ~(.'PAWLEYS ISLAND the vacationing golfer and his SEA GULL j)IJ ::ab~:: family. Accessibility is a big plus f:J"!\:. ;:::l~s7 miles for this club. Its location on the Surf 16;/i miles Intracoastal Waterway near the Myrtle Beach Airport adjacent to U.S. 17 makes it easy for the vaca tioner to reach. Facilities were de signed with the tourist or vaca tioner in mind, and this concern is reflected in the clubhouse and pro shop. Sea Gull Golf Club. South of Pawleys Island and 25 miles from Myrtle Beach lies Sea Gull, a Gene Hamm-designed course carved out of a former plantation. Variety is the byword of the Sea Gull course; the front side is composed of roll ing, sandy fairways while the back nine is typical of the beach courses with flat terrain and much water. Holes 3 and 15 are the two most talked about. They both require precisely-placed shots to gain posi tion. Course lengths vary from 5,250 yards for the ladies to 6,910 for the longer markers. February 1971 51 character must be colorful and he must also have the ability to en gender empathy. In short, a char acter should be likeable as well as interestingly different. Mr. Franz filled the bill. "Mr. Franz," that's what we all called him. I never remember anyone call ing him Julius or simply Franz. It was always Mr. Franz. His de meanor and bearing demanded nothing less. MISTER Mr. Franz was a native of Ohio, which he pronounced, "oh high uh," and not "oh high oh," as we did. As a matter of fact, his clipped Midwestern accent was one of his endearing features. There just weren't that many strange accents FRANZ around small Southern towns in the 1930s. Mr. Franz had come South pri By Bill Marett marily in search of gold. From in formation found in government publications, he had determined that there was gold in Oconee mong the "characters" I have Clemson-Carolina football game to County. At least it had once been known, Julius Franz is defi offer the governor a hotdog ( all the mined there. Mr. Franz never did Anitely a standout. Having been way). Or the high school student find any gold, but he maintained an born and raised in Seneca in who spent nearly all one summer active interest in the whole matter Oconee County, I feel that I speak sitting in a tree in front of Abbott's and threatened from time to time with some authority, since this Funeral Home as Seneca's contri to get back into the gold-hunting particular area has nurtured more bution to the teen "tree sitting" business. As a matter of fact, he characters per capita than any other craze. (He finally came down to at had a plumb bob on a string which place I can think of. Where else tend football camp at Jocassee). he frequently carried with him. He could you find a man who could And then there was the merchant was vague about the whole thing, play tunes by snapping his fingers? who named his dry goods store but intimated that it was somehow Admittedly, one had to listen "The Lindbergh Building" because connected with gold hunting. closely to make out "Under the his was the first business to move Mr. Franz was a wiry little man Double Eagle," but his rhythm was non-stop from one end of Main in his early 80s who always wore a superb. And where else could you Street to the other. And what other tie and coat and was never without find a man who looked, dressed and town has one end of its main street his fedora. His gait was as crisp as walked exactly like Charlie Chap known affectionately as "Ram Cat his repartee. He was always busi lin-even to the cane, derby, small Alley"? nesslike, and there was not a lazy mustache and baggy pants? Or the I believe the foothills and Sen bone in his body. His principal owner of the first automobile with eca's proximity to the mountains income was a small check which he windows in Seneca, who reassured a have something to do with the drew every month, and his friends passenger as they were being phenomenon. It seems to me that supplied his modest luxuries-a pushed down the railroad tracks, hill folk tend to come in individual black cigar now and then and an after having been struck by a Blue packages. To qualify as a character occasional soft drink ("dope") or Ridge Railroad engine at the Fair several attributes are required. For beer. He was a temperate man and play Street crossing, with "Don't one thing, the individual must be frowned on excesses of all sorts. worry, buddy, we 're in a closed colorful. Just being a rugged indi His usual hangout was the local car!" Or the citizen, complete with vidualist doesn't quite do it. Some police station, which at that time shoestring tie and goatee, who of the dullest bores in creation have was a building about the size of a stopped by the dignitaries' box at a been so-called individualists. A small concession stand ( or large 52 Sand lap per privy). It had the traditional large electric bell on the front which clanged away when the phone rang. These bells were installed on police stations, taxi stands and icehouses so that those in attendance could in NOTICEI indulge such outside activities as pitching horseshoes and listening to a car radio without missing any calls. The only trouble was, not only could the attendant easily hear the phone ring but so could anyone else within a three-block radius, which included a good percentage of the population. Mr. Franz loved law enforcement and politics, and he was seldom seen without a badge of one sort or another. Most often the badges were representative of his status as a preserver of the peace, and bore inscriptions such as "Sheriff by Heck." These were available from the Johnson Smith Co. of Racine, Wisconsin. Badges were big items in their catalog, along with itching Owing to the fact that pressure of buaine1111 i11 110 great that I will be powder and stink bombs. (In Seneca the latter word was pro unable to attend to city bu11ine1111 I am withdrawing from the race for mayor. nounced "bums." It was not until World War II that "barns" came Some may wonder why I am withdrawing, but while I am always work into fashion along with "may-o ing for the interest of the City of Seneca, I love my country, and when duty naise" for "my-o-naise." Radio calls I must answer. newscasters brought about these changes. To all my friends who promised me their support I extend thanks and Sitting in a cane-bottom chair good wishes and later will strive to serve you in a way you will appreciate. leaned against the side of the police station, Mr. Franz loved to tell stories about his earlier days in Canton, Ohio. His favorite had to JULIUS A. FRANZ do with the time they brought the body of President William Mc Kinley back to Ohio after his assas Prospector, crime detector, political observer and unsuccessful sination. Mr. Franz went into great (above) mayorial candidate Julius Franz, despite his detail about them opening the eccentricity, was appreciated by the townsfolk of Seneca. casket-for reviewing, I suppose. Anyway, he always wound up with, "And there was McKinley as green Franz despised it. "That damn (service stations came in later) was as a gourd from that damn em monkey's no good!" he'd say, but robbed, Mr. Franz worked on the bammin' fluid!" the sight of a scowling little man case for days. He never gave up. He He generally rode with the police sitting erect in the back seat of the did a lot of measuring using his on their rounds or in response to a car with the monkey was not at all plumb bob. His conclusion was that call, neither of which was unduly uncommon. The monkey finally the station owner had robbed him frequent. He always sat erect and disappeared and Mr. Franz took full self, although he suggested no alert, ready for any eventuality. responsibility for ordering it off the motive. Only a couple of hot patch For a time a pet monkey was premises. tire repair kits and a minuscule sum kept around the station, and Mr. When a certain filling station of money was stolen, but "It's an February 1971 53 inside job," Mr. Franz insisted. He placed sizeable orders. One, how was obvious that his duties lay else was thoroughly provoked when the ever, apparently not familiar with where in higher political realms. His owner would not allow himself to Mr. Franz, asked him what gourds withdrawal was made public in be arrested. were used for. He got the prompt handbills which bore his picture. Mr. Franz' most famous efforts retort, " for martin houses and Sometime after this, he launched in behalf of the law had to do with dippers, you damn fool!" As the a campaign to elect a local citizen, a "liquor ring" at Clemson College, days went by and the gourds did Tom Hardie, President of the some nine miles from Seneca. Upon not arrive, Mr. Franz became more United States. An article appeared his suspicion that the then presi restive concerning the whole in The Seneca Journal (formerly dent of the college, in consort with matter, especially since he had so Farm and Factory), stating that he others, was making and selling many orders to fill. He had a sus was on the go night and day in be moonshine corn whiskey, he im picion that the gourds had arrived half of his candidate. It further mediately sprang into action. "This but had been purloined by the rail stated, "For a few days the cam won't do atall," he said. He put on road agent. "Lancaster's no good," paign has been blocked by Charlie his best badge and hopped the first he'd say. Price and Lloyd Abbott who are bus to Clemson. Flashing his badge, Finally, Mr. Johnston himself jealous of Franz success and are he was admitted aboard the bus appeared to speak in the city park fighting Hardie. The matter is being without fare-such was his pur along with the rest of the candi looked into by the Sheriff. Inci poseful demeanor. Arriving at dates, in accordance with the dentally, Mr. Franz has had the Clemson, he attempted to locate "circus" system. After the meeting, Sheriff of Seneca changed and a the federal marshal. Failing in this, when the handshaking began, Mr. new sheriff for Seneca will be an he decided to take the matter into Franz greeted Mr. Johnston with an nounced soon." It mentioned that a his own hands and proceeded outstretched hand and, "Johnston large sum of money was being sent promptly up the hill to the admin Franz." He was happy that Mr. to Mr. Franz for campaign expenses istration building. Things weren't so Johnston recognized him, which of and that the distribution of this complicated then and he en course he didn't. (Although every would undoubtedly stimulate busi countered no difficulty in marching one else called Mr. Franz "Mister," ness in Seneca ( it could have stood into the president's office, con it was an appelation which he did it). It was further stated that a local fronting him with the words, not confer on others. He always man had been promised the job of "Sikes, the jig's up!" There are con addressed people simply by their Secretary of Labor should Hardie flicting reports as to what happened last names, gubernatorial candidate win. at this juncture. Mr. Franz later or not.) Soon after this World War II said, "He lied out of it," which When Mr. Johnston asked him came along. The Depression had would take some doing with Mr. how he was getting along, a ques already begun to abate, and there Franz. tion I'm sure he later regretted, Mr. was less time for loafing, fellowship Deep though his feelings were for Franz proceeded to tell him about and nonsense. Folks got busier and the law, his real love was politics. the situation. Here again, there is many went off to the war. Mr. He dearly loved election campaigns considerable confusion as to what Franz began to bide his time be and was most active at such times. took place. Mr. Johnston may have tween town and "The Home," or His territory was Main Street, gone to his grave wondering about the County Poor Farm, as it was which he "worked" for various can it, if indeed he remembered it at all. called. To the end he was as pert as didates. He generally went from There is no doubt about Mr. Franz' ever, having done all he could to store to store extolling the virtues ultimate reaction, however-he reorganize "The Home." When the of his man. But he didn't work for promptly became a supporter of war was over, and the soldiers had nothing. Word got to him that if he Maybank. returned, Mr. Franz had passed supported Olin Johnston, who was Mr. Franz finally decided to run away. Things were not quite the then running for governor, he for office himself, and entered the same. He was missed, and re would receive a boxcar load of race for mayor of Seneca. He cam membered as a courageous little gourds-no doubt inspired by his paigned hard for this one, even man who put more than a little reference to gourds in the McKinley spending some time at Mountain brightness into his surroundings. In story. View Cemetery copying names retrospect, he may have been much At any rate, he decided to "kill from gravestones to insure a proper less eccentric than those around two birds with one stone"; while voter balance. When it became ap him often thought. working Main Street for Mr. John parent that a loss would really be a ston, he took orders for the gourds terrible blow to him, he was talked W.C. Marett is a free-lance writer as well. Most of the merchants into retiring from the race, since it from Columbia. 54 Sandlapper 0 0 o--... - do TAKE AN ACRE he real estate business can and was United States Acres. so easy as anticipated. The laws in does have its exciting moments, A novelty, a topic of conversa each state are different; the state of Tbut really not nearly enough for tion, the hoola hoop of the real Tennessee thought something was the thwarted adventurer. Mortgage estate industry-that is what United amiss and told him to cease and bankers, title clerks and other real States Acres was intended to be. desist; his money ran out; he was estate specialists are generally a In 1964 Allison, a Columbia, viewed with suspicion by other real conservative group, known more South Carolina, native now living in estate brokers; many people for the proficiency and specialty of Maryville, Tennessee, conceived the laughed at him ("and still do," he their endeavors than for the fascina idea of making a bit of America admits). It took almost six years to tion of their businesses. The prob available to anyone who could lem: How does one do something afford to pay $19.50. It sounded different and exciting in a business easy. Buying the land in each state Above: "Land barons" own loaded with tradition and cere an interest in each of 50 plots of would require a lot of traveling an acre or more. The plots mony? (that sounded good). It also turned are located in interesting or The solution for Julian Allison out to be quite expensive and not scenic areas wherever possible. February 1971 55 J U LI A N T. ALL I ENTERPRISES Above: Allison displays copies of complete his purchases and insure novel offering and did publish his the 50 different deeds. Each is legal the legality of the venture in every ads. and can be registered. Though in state. Communication has been the different formats to conform with varying state laws, they are all the same More problems arose. It was dif basic problem. Many people just do size. Some buyers have used them ficult to find a printer willing to not believe that for $19.50 they for unique Christmas cards. work out the mechanics of 50 sep can receive 50 legal deeds to an arate, different deeds which would undivided interest ( equivalent to a be legal in every state. Trial adver square-inch partnership) in an acre tisements were rejected by numer of land in every state. Reese Black ous newspapers including the New well of Kershaw can explain it. He Yark Times and the Philadelphia is the landowner Allison dealt with Inquirer. However, many large in South Carolina. newspapers weren't skeptical of the The Kershaw County acre is level 56 Sand lap per and has tall pine trees, a stream and ~.~ the best quail hunting imaginable. : The county already has received a -~ good deal of publicity over the ven ~'~ "' ture and Blackwell hopes United States Acres will help put it on the map. ~j Each tract of land in the program is different. In upper Michigan there is an apple orchard; in McAllen, Texas, there is a grape •••<:,. ,,.,.. .._. ~ fruit grove; in Colorado, the acre is on U.S. 50 about a half mile from the Royal Gorge; there are four acres on U.S. 66 in Kingman, Arizona. The assets of United States Acres consist of 55.84 acres of land (one to four acres in each state) on which Allison is readying a world wide sales campaign. By holding an undivided interest in each tract the "land barons," as each person who buys a package of 50 deeds is called, will have access to the total acreage for camping, picnicking or similar purposes. Allison points out that it would be "the ideal gift for the man who has everything." The finishing touches were put on Allison's brainchild in February 1970. It had already brought him excitement and enabled him to FRANK BOBO, THE YOUNG MAN SAMPLING travel and to meet people from every state; now it began offering THE MASH, is the first Jack Daniel stiller who's no kin him the adventure of turning a to a Modow. brand-new idea into reality. "It's a tremendous undertaking," Allison Lem Tolley ( the ocher man) learned to still whiskey from adds, "especially when you con sider that there are 6,272,640 his uncle Lem Modow, who learned all he knew from square inches in an acre." his uncle, Jack Daniel. And Mr. Tolley handed down all Seldom at a loss for something unusual to do, Allison gave his wife his knowledge to young Frank, the Kaye the moon for her birthday in 1968. "It was simple," he chuckles, head stiller at Jack Daniel's today. CHARCOAL "I just made out the deed and Here in the hollow, folks say Frank MELLOWED recorded it at the courthouse." Where did he get it? "It's been in has learned his lessons so well 6 the family for years," he explains. he even look_s like a Modow. DROP "The deed description reads: 'Being the satellite of the earth, that re Well, we don't know about that. 6 volves around it once every 291h But we're sure glad he makes BY DROP days and shines by reflected sun light, and being the same land com whiskey like one. monly known as the moon.' " The real estate business can and TENNESSEE WHISKEY • 90 PROOF BY CHOICE e 1970, Jack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow, Prop., Inc. does have its exciting moments. DISTILLED AND BOTTLED BY JACK DANIEL DISTILLERY , LYNCHBURG (POP. 384), TENN. February 1971 57 A CHURCH BUILT TO ACCOMMODATE WINTER WORSHIPERS By Isabel Lofton Hills pproximately 12 miles from of the church in Charles Town in Charleston, in a grove of oaks, 170 4 and began organizing Ahickories and pines on Bohicket churches on the maritime islands, Road is the historic Johns Island for those living too far from Charles -Photos by Fielding D. Russell Jr. Presbyterian Church, organized Town to go there to worship in the about 1710 under the leadership of winter. Johns Island Presbyterian steps are covered with Italian the Rev. Archibald Stobo. The orig Church was one of these. marble. inal frame building, erected in Howe tells of a legacy left the On entering the sanctuary, one is 1719, remains today in a fine state Johns Island church in 1735 by impressed by its simplicity. The of preservation, having withstood Robert Ure during the pastorate of interior is finished in plaster, panel one earthquake, two wars and the Rev. Mr. Turnbull. His will ing and hand-carved woodwork. many hurricanes. A member of called for the sale of his estate and The flooring is of wide plank. In Charles Town Presbytery in 1 723, half of the money was to be in 1905 the late Elder T.A. Beckett it is not only one of the oldest rural vested. The interest from this in pointed out to the writer that a churches still in active service, but vestment was to be used for the beautiful sunflower, six feet in is thought by some to be the oldest maintenance of a Presbyterian diameter, was made in the overhead continuously used Presbyterian minister on Johns Island. Many plastering by a forgotten English Church in South Carolina. island residents lived on large plan artisan. Unfortunately, this high Early records were destroyed tations in the winter, moved to ceiling was so badly damaged by when the home of the late Elder their Charles Town homes in the the 1886 earthquake that it was F. Y . Legare burned, and only summer, and were enrolled as replaced by a wooden one. The minutes of the Session dating back members of congregations there. high box-pews add to the colonial to 1855 are in existence. The writer The sanctuary is framed of hand appearance of the sanctuary. Steep is indebted to Dr. George Howe's sawed heart pine and put together steps lead to large galleries built to History of the Presbyterian Church with wooden pegs. The original accommodate Negro members. in South Carolina for much roof was made of black cypress The original pulpit, nine feet information. hand-split shingles. The bricks for high, was lowered many years ago, According to Howe, in Sep the foundation were brought from and in 1929 the rostrum was en tember 1700, the Rev. Archibald England, and the risers on the side larged to accommodate the choir. Stobo, a Presbyterian minister of At each side of the pulpit is a hand the Scottish Reformation, was re Although it was constructed 251 years ago some marble tablet, one dedicated turning from a missionary expedi and has weathered wars, hurricanes and to the Rev. Elipha White tion to the Isthmus of Darien and an earthquake, Johns Island Presbyterian (1822-1849) who, according to tra stopped his ship, the Rising Sun, at Church remains remarkably well preserved. dition, died in the pulpit with his Charles Town for supplies. He was arms outstretched in the form of a invited to preach there. On Sep cross, and the other to the Rev. tember 3, a hurricane foundered his W.G. Varden (1885-1898). ship off the Charles Town bar. More recent features of the Stobo, his wife and a few others church are a Sunday school wing who were in the city at the time added across the rear of the sanc were the only passengers to survive. tuary in 1935 and an educational Stobo then accepted the pastorate building constructed outside the of Charles Town Independent church fence in 1954. Church, known today as the Cir cular Congregational Church. Howe Mrs. Washington Clark Hills is from says that Stobo resigned as pastor Johns I stand. 58 Sand lap per comparable to those at Asheville, Apparently the answer lies partly North Carolina. in the lay of the land at the Cedar The unbelievably low tempera Creek home of the Seabers. They tures reported by the small station live on the side of a hill above the have put Cedar Creek on the map. stream which gives its name to the This, however, is not the only thing community. In re11lity the Seabers for which the community is known. are in one valley of a series of con The people who reside in the val necting valleys created by the creek leys, on the hillsides and along the over thousands of years. The com scenic roads of Cedar Creek take bination of lowlands and sur great pride in the appearance of the rounding hills traps cold and keeps area. More than once the Cedar it, a situation resulting in both Creek community has been recog lower temperatures and frequent nized for its attractiveness, neatness frosts when there are none else- and friendly and energetic folks. But no other single factor has brought Cedar Creek into the con sciousness of South Carolinians as much as the tiny weather station beside the fence in the Seabers' vegetable garden hard by their picturesque home. Verona and John Seaber volun teered for the responsibility of reporting high and low tempera tures and rainfall at Cedar Creek. Though not an arduous task, it requires a daily reading at 7 a.m., a call to the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Columbia, a written record, and a monthly re port to the advisory agricultural he John A. Seabers of the Cedar meteorologist at Clemson. -Photos by Richard Taylor Creek community (17 suburban The division of labor at the sta It's not cold everywhere at Cedar Tand country miles due north of tion usually calls for John Seaber to Creek, as this hothouse-grown grapefruit the State House in Columbia) are venture out in the 7 a.m. cold to tree (above) suggests, but record low people with wide and varied in read the minimum for the night, temperatures are recorded here. Checking the amount of rainfall (left) terests. They maintain an attractive the maximum for the previous day and preparing a written report are rural home called Beechwood; they and the current temperature. Then two of several daily tasks the Seabers are enthusiastic gardeners; they are either he or Verona will call in the must perform. Above right: A view good and true Lutherans; and they data, and Verona will prepare the of the chill-trapping Cedar Creek terrain. strive hard to make their com daily written report. On those fre munity and world a more suitable quent mornings when the minimum , place in which to live. temperature for the night is far But this is not all. John and below that recorded in Columbia Verona Seaber are a small part of and other cities, the weather ex that far-flung organization usually perts are astonished and con called the Weather Bureau. Specif founded. The general public later ically, this upper Richland County reacts in similar fashion. couple is responsible for the Cedar Questions arise when the Cedar Creek weather station, a reporting Creek reports are given. Residents point which during the winter of other parts of the state ask, months claims some of the coldest ''Where in the world is Cedar temperatures recorded in the state. Creek?" Others, who are interested In fact, the lows reported often in climatological phenomena, reflect weather more frigid than wonder why it is colder at Cedar that of the mountain country, Creek than it is in nearby Columbia sometimes reaching temperatures or elsewhere in the Midlands. 60 Sand lap per where. Of course, there are those to inquiries of the weather bureau Creek, so don't be an unbeliever who attribute the cold to some as as to whether they could help us." when radio or newspaper reports yet unexplained source. Cedar Creek's extreme tempera mention the extreme cold recorded "It is not necessarily a claim we tures occur only during the night. there. The reading is official and enjoy making," Verona Seaber tells Daytime temperatures are about quite accurate. Though the valley us, "but here at Cedar Creek we the same as those in Columbia and of the Seabers does not extend all probably have earlier and later other comparable places. The the way to the Arctic, the frigid frosts than any other place in the Seabers say that when the sun goes nights have led many to believe that state." down the reading at their station it does. Little wonder that per The unseasonal and frequent follows suit in a spectacular way. sonnel at the Columbia Weather frosts have brought the Seabers Following a discussion of Cedar Bureau refer to Cedar Creek as through many long and sad expe Creek temperatures with Weather "The Frost Bowl." riences in their attempts to carry on Bureau personnel, and the presenta The weather station, humble as it their horticultural pursuits. "It tion of a reasonable sounding ex may be in comparison with some, took us several years after moving planation, a reporting station was has added variety and pleasure to up here," Mrs. Seaber explains, "to established at Cedar Creek and the the lives of John and Verona realize something about our Seabers were called upon to operate Seaber. It has certainly provided a weather was very different. Sudden and maintain it. Thus for seven topic of conversation, not only for and unexpected frosts when none years the couple has been diligently them but for thousands of South were predicted really played havoc discharging their responsibilities, Carolinians who like to talk about with the cultivation of fruit trees, supplying daily information which the weather. flowers, vegetables and other forms has given statewide publicity to the of plant life. It was really my Cedar Creek community. John Bigham is a free-lance writer womanly curiosity that finally led It is cold these nights in Cedar from Columbia. February 1971 61 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS At Better Bookstores NEW WRITING IN SOUTH CARO The selections in this volume LINA. Edited by William Peden and vary, some reflecting the idealism George Garrett. 17 5 pages. Pub and impatience of young Caro A Second Edition of One of the lished for the South Carolina Tri linians, others wistfully recalling an First "Black Studies" (1929) centennial Commission by the agrarian life that goes back beyond University of South Carolina Press. the conscious imagination of the Asa H. Gordon $6.95. young. 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As a an English world, brought with "sideline" to his regular duties as a them the roots of an English life successful farmer and manager of ,i: sty le; this life-style the new gentry the family real estate interests, he t:·:l· : \ i imposed on all facets of their ex was a frequent contributor to At I istence, from manners to archi lantic Monthly, The Saturday Re i·I ; ~ .. I, I : I fl tecture. They planned their estates view, Forum, the Yale Review and l I L I ~ , Ii National Geographic. Over a period , 11 if. ,J 1 and planted their gardens in an I ~ .I English manner (with Dutch over of 25 years, Shaffer completed his -' I !' ' f I:. tones). Around the great houses, personal odyssey in search of I f', I Carolina gardens, past and present. I I ' ' V grounds were laid out in a formal, I Y' f'' •· , restrained arrangement of trees, The scope of his ramblings ranged I ' I 'II, '. I l • ' lit shrubbery and statuary, with little from such public gardens as Cy · ,'ft'Mai ~ •.. I attention to the brilliant floral pos press, Middleton and the Sumter ;"1'' I ;.?,.,"!/. sibilities modern gardeners rely on. Iris Gardens, through little-known But before many years a new sense though treasured plots, to once of freedom had permeated the land, famous (by then often desolate) Caroli1za and it did not fail to touch even on plantings. In addition to personal Garde1zs the realm of landscaping. Grad anecdotes, philosophical ramblings hy E.T.H. SHAFFER ually, the flora of a new world-live and botanical information, the oaks, Spanish moss, magnolias and book is filled with historical de CAROLINA GARDENS the rest-found their way into the tail-evidence of Shaffer's careful formal statements of colonial and painstaking research into his By E.T.H. Shaffer lawns. The end result was a new chosen subject. synthesis-and a unique phenom It would be interesting to retrace enon in the world of gardening. the author's steps, 34 years later, to Carolina Gardens traces this discover what remains today A major contribution transformation through coastal which flowering places have been to its subject- for gardeners, history Carolina, from Edisto to Wilming preserved, which lost forever save buffs and lovers of ton, recapturing a lost era in the for the pages of this book. Readers beauty in general. lawns and gardens of the people will no doubt note vast changes in who lived it. From the coastal some areas with which they are region, the book progresses, as the familiar. Speaking of the Preston $6.95 area progressed, over pinelands and House and garden in Columbia, the sandhills, to piedmont and finally author declares, "Being now in the alpine gardens. 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February 1971 65 s work proceeded in the late Several old-timers recall the great 1920s to prepare a basin for THEY SLEEP perplexity and worry experienced Awhat in time would be Lake by countless people before the final Murray, the people who lived in the BENEATH decision was reached concerning 1o wer Saluda River valley faced their dead. One dear old lady spent several serious problems. Not the LAKE MURRAY sleepless nights debating the ques least of these concerned the dis tion. Only when the water began to position of their dead before the approach the graveyard could she waters covered the earth, when dry By John Bigham make up her mind and ask that the land in the area would be no more. bodies of her family be removed. The bodies of the departed were Her case could well have been the resting in several church cemeteries rule and not the exception. and in numerous family graveyards. The few years preceding the fill The power company developing ing of the basin and the emergence the lake found itself facing the of Lake Murray were a period of possibility of removing as many as serious and agonizing change for 19 3 graveyards containing more local residents. Nonetheless, as is than 3,300 graves. The company's always true in the most trying of problem was indeed something to circumstances, there were humor think about, but it could not ap ous moments. proach the questions which soon One of the stories from those had to be answered by the con days tells of an indomitable old -Photo by Richard Taylor lady who refused to leave her home cerned families. Whether to allow Above: A granite memorial in Bethel the water to rise and cover the Luthern Church cemetery has been although told that it would even graves of deceased loved ones or to erected to those whose graves are now tually be covered by water. She is permit their bodies to be removed covered by Lake Murray. Of 50 names said to have made the statement: "I to another location at company on the stone, over half are of the Wingard can drink the water as fast as it will family. Below: Morning on the Lake. expense became a burning issue. rise." The outcome of this partic For some the decision was rela ular demonstration of obstinacy tively easy; for others it led to waters of Lake Murray is in the was that, following torrential rains, much soul-searching and mental Bethel Lutheran Church cemetery the water rose so rapidly that it was anguish. at White Rock. It is a memorial to necessary to build an access into In the end the good people had those whose bodies rest in the sub her home and remove the unbeliev to decide. Many elected to have merged graveyard of old Bethel or ing lady to safety via the back door. their dead remain and rest forever High Hill Lutheran Church some Local history also records that under the waters of the new lake. three miles south of the village. hundreds of people living in the For these the company placed The members of High Hill, their affected area believed until the very memorial markers along the shores meetinghouse doomed by the rising end that the water would never of the lake and in nearby church waters, joined another congregation reach the levels predicted by the yards. On the other hand, hundreds to form the new Bethel Church. engineers. The rising water which of bodies were removed and re Much of the material in the present created the vast reservoir of Lake buried in locations selected by the attractive house of worship came Murray soon proved them wrong. families of the deceased. from the High Hill sanctuary when One marker erected to the the time finally came for the dis John Bigham is a free-lance writer memory of the dead under the mantling of the historic church. from Columbia. MARCH 1 GAFFNEY- Limestone College - Dr. William G. Pollard, Physicist-Oergyman. GAS FIRED EVENTS 3 SPARTANBURG- Wofford College - Dr. Wil PORTABLE All activities to be considered for liam G. Pollard, Physicist-Clergyman. 4 INFRA-RED the Calendar of Events must be sent SPARTANBURG- Wofford College-Dr. directly to the Events Editor, Sand· George D. Kelsey , Professor of Christian HEATERS lapper Press, Inc., P.O. 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Here in about 20 fascinating pages Dr. Hollis gives us what most people will accept as the NE-MA true story of "Cotton Ed." SHOW A. Mason Gibbes Columbia, South Carolina I congratulate you on your fine quality publication. It is interesting, beautifully done and reflects com petency in every way. I also wish to compliment Mr. John Bigham, your free-lance writer from Columbia, on his article in the November issue, "The Old Reformer." I could add considerably more to the history of this old cannon. My grandfather, Capt. John Samuel Smith, C.S.A., was in charge of this old gun in Gen. Hampton's election to Gov ernor of South Carolina, in 1876 in meetings in Anderson, Abbeville, Due West and other places. The Company fired this old cannon FOR ALL 4 I and ... it was so heavily loaded that it shook glass out of the windows and buildings for a half ARTHUR ROS[ mile around. FEBRUARY 7-26 Paintings and Sculpture CLOWN Carl B. Smith Tampa, Florida A reception will honor the artist on February 7 PRINTS Since you have delved so much 2 - 6 p.m. into South Carolina, I am sure your staff is well-informed on things both past and present; so, can any II.DD SANDLAPPER GALLERY Children love these four clown one tell me where a syllabub churn can be bought? I purchased one U.S. 378 prints (each 9" x 12" in size). several years ago made of lucite, W, COLUMBIA, S.C. These prints in beautiful color but it was no good. I also have a P.O. BOX 1668 are suitable for framing. They metal one which is exactly 111 COLUMBIA, S.C. 29202 make a pleasing gift for birth years old but it is a bit worn. days or other special occasions. TELEPHONE To order: Send $1.00 plus 25e (Mrs.) Maria W. Whitehead (803) 796-2686 for postage and handling to: Lake City, South Carolina CLOWN PRINTS Coming: Florence Shennan P.O. Box 1668 March 7-April 12 Columbia, S.C. 29202 Is there a reader who can help this lady locate a syllabub churn? S.C. residents add 4% sales tax. Ed. February 1971 71 ' ITS YELLOW AND WHITE WATER-GROUND MEAL IS STILL IN DEMAND By Beth Brown and Gary C. Dickey n this time of renewed interest in each sack. There is still a good that a mill has stood on the same anything old-in antiques, in res demand for the meal, since many location since the days when I toration, reconstruction and people prefer the taste of the water Indians roamed the wilderness. refurbishing-anything which is ground product. Although he still uses the power authentic and used in the same Price's Mill is the burr-type or and equipment of yesteryear, some manner as it was in another era is rock mill, and as the meal grinds it of Price's methods have changed. unusual. does not get hot as it does in some He no longer grinds corn brought in A rustic two-story wooden frame of the more modern mills. Price can by local farmers. In the old days the building stands beside a concrete regulate the texture, making the miller charged a grinding toll of one dam in Stevens Creek near Parks meal fine or coarse, by raising or eighth of the total amount of corn ville in McCormick County, and lowering the millstones. brought in (250 pounds per ton). here John Price operates a water The mill is powered by a long This he sold to make his living. powered gristmill which attracts driveshaft leading from a turbine at Price says that using waterpower both friends and sightseers. one end of the concrete dam some allows him to continue to operate Located at a scenic spot on the 50 feet away. The splash of falling the mill. "Since 1932 I doubt that river, where mountain laurel and water and the groan of the ancient the cost of operating the mill has other beautiful flora grow along the gears seem to shake the earth been more than $1,000," Price said. shores of the rocky stream, the around the building, which was "I couldn't stay in business if I had park-like grounds look more like a constructed in 1910. Beneath the to use electricity." recreation area than a place where a mill the steel gear from the shaft The Prices and their two children man makes his living. connects to a cartwheel gear, chang live in a modern brick home over A gristmill run by waterpower is ing the direction of the energy and looking the scenic area. They love becoming rare in today's world of helping to muffle much of the to entertain, and for generations total electric power, yet Price noise. Price has modern facilities area residents have enjoyed seining operates the mill three days a week for automatic sacking, weighing and and fishing in the old millpond. for customers living in surrounding adding enrichments, and makes towns. Price's yellow and white both plain and self-rising meal. His Beth Brown and Gary C. Dickey are cornmeal has his own label, and a grandfather also had a gristmill on on the staff of Charleston's News picture of the old mill is printed on Stevens Creek, and historians say and Courier. 72 Sand lap per THE MAYOR IS A COOK By Eva G. Key Mayor Jessie Blackwell of Bennettsville prepares to serve guests from the dining room of her restored colonial home. Furnishings include an antique sideboard and table and a rectangular 1870 Tiffany light fixture. 74 Sandlap per essie M. Blackwell, serving her 1 cup fresh butter churns of delicious sherbet. Keep second term as mayor of Ben 2 cups sugar the mixture refrigerated. nettsville, still exercises her culi 4 large fresh eggs Add sugar to the milk, water and J 3 cups self-rising flour nary talents, much to the delight 1 tsp. vanilla pineapple. Stir well and set aside. of friends and family. 1 tsp. fresh lemon juice Whip egg whites to a peak. Com When Mrs. Blackwell began her 1 cup milk bine all ingredients and pour into a first term in office, members of the four-quart ice cream freezer. Churn First Presbyterian Church in Cream butter and sugar. Add one until mixture is stiff, then pack in Bennettsville and members of local beaten egg at a time, beating well salt and ice for a few hours to mel clubs wondered, "What can we do with each addition. low. Either a hand-turned or elec now about church socials, the Add flour alternately with milk tric churn-type freezer may be Men's Club dinners and receptions to this mixture. Add vanilla and used. for VIPs? Jessie has always planned lemon juice. Pour into three, nine HER HONOR'S SPECIAL CASSEROLE such wonderful dinners at the inch greased layer-cake pans. Bake 1 lb. lean, ground chuck church affairs and baked such in a moderate oven (350 degrees) 1 medium green pepper, chopped beautiful things for special occa for 35 to 40 minutes until cake test 1 medium onion, chopped sions. Now she won't have time." shows it is done. Use your favorite 1 can tomatoes (1 lb. size) But Jessie still finds time, for she frosting or use the mayor's favorite: 1 can whole kernel corn (1 lb. size) 1 tsp. salt loves her church and cooking is her lemon. Pepper to taste favorite hobby. And, happily for LEMON FROSTING or PUDDING 1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce the other members, she continues (This frosting makes a cake a delec 11/z cups grated, sharp cheddar to prepare her special dishes for table dessert. If extra cornstarch is cheese church suppers. added, it makes a delicious lemon 1 package thinly sliced noodles (8 oz. size) An unusual and thoughtful facet pudding, especially when poured over canned pears or lady fingers.) of Mrs. Blackwell's cooking hobby Brown the meat, onion and green 11/z cups granulated sugar pepper over low heat in heavy iron has been her baking, decorating and 4 eggs skillet with two tablespoons of presenting beautiful wedding cakes 1 tbsp. cornstarch 1 shortening. Add tomatoes, corn and to Bennettsville brides. She still /.i pound (one stick) butter Juice of 4 lemons seasoning, simmer 20 minutes, add does this even if it means working 1 cup coconut, for sprinkling over noodles and 1h cup water. Cook in her kitchen until the wee hours. all, if desired until noodles begin to get tender. The Blackwells live in a lovely Beat eggs, add sugar mixed with Turn into a buttered casserole, top old house which they have carefully cornstarch, then stir in lemon juice. with grated cheese and bake at 325 restored and furnished with suitable Cook over boiling water until thick. degrees for 45 minutes. Serves 8. antiques. Many of these were Cool and spread on a two-layer brought from Shinness, the planta WADE HAMPTON GINGERBREAD cake. Double the recipe for a large tion home of her great-grandfather (Handed down in Mrs. Blackwell's cake if you want lots of good, thick family from plantation days.) A. J. Matheson. They call their icing. Sprinkle one cup of grated 1/z cup butter home Attadale, which recalls the coconut over the iced cake if you 1/z cup sugar ancient home of the Mathesons in 1/z cup brown molasses (unsulphured) wish. the north highlands of Scotland. OLD-FASHIONED 2 large eggs Mrs. Blackwell and her husband PINEAPPLE SHERBET 2 cups flour (the kind you churn freeze) 2 tsp. baking powder Robert are known for their gracious 2 tsp. ground ginger (Many residents of Marlboro hospitality. She says: "I just think 1/z cup milk that one should always offer guests County declare this "the world's best sh erbet." This takes some Cream butter and sugar, add some refreshments, and I think one time, but is worth it.) molasses, mix well then add beaten should be prepared. That is not 2 cups whole milk eggs. Sift flour with dry ingredients, hard these days, with modern 2 cups sugar add to molasses mixture alternately kitchens and handy freezers. I 4 egg whites with the milk. Bake in a greased sometimes use packaged foods, but 1 quart water 1 can crushed pineapple (1 lb., 4 oz. pan at 350 degrees, about 30 min I always add my personal touch." size) utes or until done. Serve warm with Some of the mayor's tried and true 1 tbsp. lemon juice lemon sauce or with a dollop of recipes are given below. 5 tsp. citric acid water whipped cream on each square. ONE-TWO-THREE-FOUR CAKE To make citric acid water, buy 2 Serves 8. (This old standby is adaptable and ounces citric acid at drugstore and makes a large layer cake or pretty add to one pint of water. This will Eva G. Key is a free-lance writer petits fours.) keep and will suffice for many from Mt. Pleasant. February 1971 75 THE GAEA TER GREENVILLE AREA Apex of South Carolina Industry and Culture One Of A Series Depicting South Carolina's Progress 'AM I A PAINTER WHO LIKES TO TEACH OR AM I A TEACHER WHO LIKES TO PAINT?' leac~er Artist Art~ur I Rose I.J ~ By John W. Faust o some people a 55-gallon fuel drum is an object of utility to Tbe used as a container, a float or something to leave behind a ware house and let rust. To Arthur Rose, chairman of the Department of Art at Claflin Col lege in Orangeburg, a 55-gallon fuel drum is an object of undiscovered beauty, for it is from such an un likely object that he, armed with the New Iron Age artist's tools of acetylene torch and goggles, fash ions the free-flowing natural lines of killer whales, bison, gazelles, harlequins, seals, panthers and proud stags. "Art," says Rose, "is a concen tration of self into an expres sion ...a definition of what you yourself want to say in any medium whether it's oils, stone, pastels, watercolor or metalwork." Rose gives short shrift to any person who cloaks his or her artistic work in high-flown phrases. "I don't care if some critic looks at my work and sniffs," he says, his hands waving through the air in -Photos by John Faust short chops as he illustrates his point. With an acetylene torch, Arthur Rose, chairman of the Department of Art at "I've got to like it and if only Claflin College, Orangeburg, forges natural, free-flowing figures of the New Iron one other person likes what I've Age from such unlikely objects as fuel drums, old hubcaps and discarded bicycles. February 1971 77 created, then I feel I've accom when speaking of his early begin ti on is t 's demands, according to plished something worthwhile." nings. "I was very fortunate in that Rose, is to draw that bit of extra Although Rose's work in oils and I discovered myself when I was six effort from his students. metal is generally classified as years old because at that age I "There's no real limit to talent," expressionistic, he tends to wave discovered I liked to create things he explains, "and if I don't demand off any generalization and point with my hands." it from them now, how can they out that his work is not compli A visit with Rose in his art studio develop the self-discipline necessary cated. at Claflin leaves one somewhat for them to be creative when they "It's me. And I create what I bewildered at the method he uses go out into the world as artists in see." to bring the best from his students. their own right?" Rose is not a bundle of com "I'm mad today," he explained Rose gets satisfaction from his plexes. He views life from an un when this writer visited his domain. role as a teacher when a student complicated standpoint and dislikes His students were aware of that grows in his talent to express what any · attempt to make life more particular fact and paid close atten he, the artist, feels in the medium complex than it already is. tion to the criticism he had for in which he chooses to work. "About the most complex ques their efforts. "I have to awaken the funda tion in my life," he says, "is the "Is he always like this?" one mentals of art in the person and get question I ask myself: 'Am I a student was asked. them to apply those fundamentals painter who likes to teach, or am I "No," was the reply. "But, in their work. That, to me, is the a teacher who likes to paint?' " tomorrow he might be in a bad job of a teacher. I can't get them to A native of Charleston, Rose humor." paint what I feel. They can't paint earned his AB degree in art from Rose grinned at the reply. He what some other person feels," he Claflin College and a Masters of admits that he is a perfectionist. says. "They can only paint what Arts degree from New York Uni "Sometimes that's bad," he says, they feel and have somebody find a versity where he studied under such "because I tend to expect too much kindred affinity for that particular noted figures in the art world as from my students. But then again, piece of work." Peter Busa, James Podzes and Wil sometimes I expect too much from Proficient in several media, Rose liam Baziotes. myself." especially enjoys working in metal "I was born an artist," says Rose The purpose behind the perfec- sculpture. "Perhaps," he candidly admits, "I enjoy this most because I have received the greatest recognition in this field." Rose is a realist. "An artist has to eat and he has to support a family." That observation led to another which chafes Rose much as would a hair shirt. "I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that in this state, the appreciation of art is not wide spread." The Orangeburg artist goes on to point out that a culture lacks some thing essential when there is no great emphasis placed upon the development of the fine arts. "Until any culture develops a full appreciation of all art forms," he says, "you have to ask yourself the question, 'What has this culture accomplished?' " He is of the opinion that many A versatile artist, Rose is proficient in both painting and sculpture. Left: The artist discusses a recent project with students. 78 Sand lapper Above: Torch in hand Artist nessee; Bloomington University in do something as thick-lipped and Rose contemplates a sculptured Indiana; Indiana University; and the curly-haired as me, but I'm not so warrior. Proficient in several media, First Invitational Guild of South concerned with that. I'm interested the artist prefers working with metal. Carolina Artists, among others. in producing things of quality." Rose's awards include the Rose points out that "Art is of the better native artists of this Springs Cotton Mills Honorable universal and while Claflin is a state, Jasper Johns, for example, Mention, Lancaster; J.O. Endris & Negro college, art carries a universal have had to leave and migrate to Sons Jewelers Silver Trophy for message, and it is important to me the larger metropolitan areas of the "Best In Show" award; and the that it does so." North to acquire recognition for National Conference of Artists Moving his slight body unceas their efforts. Second A ward this year. ingly as he struggles to describe his "You've got to exhibit to get His one-man shows have included feelings, Rose adds that it has hurt some form of compensation for Lycoming College, Williamsport, him that the schools of the state your work," he says, "and oppor Pennsylvania; Cafe La Tortilla, have not taught the meaning and tunities are limited in South Caro Bloomington, Indiana; Stillman appreciation of art. lina at this time." College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; "If you have a spark in Rose has exhibited extensively North Carolina A&T State Uni you ...well, you'll find some way since 1951. He has had shows at versity, Greensboro, North Caro to learn. Sometimes it's only Atlanta University five times; at lina; and North Carolina State natural to do bad things. Not every Wesleyan University in Lincoln, University branch at Fayetteville, one is a great artist. But, by God, Nebraska; at the Winston-Salem North Carolina. it's important to do the best you Fine Arts Gallery in North Caro In a recent interview during one can." lina; at Gibbes Art Gallery in of his shows in Indiana, Rose said, Charleston; Beaufort Art Gallery; "I've always tried to be myself and John W. Faust, from Orangeburg, is The Parthenon in Nash ville, Ten- I've always loved people. I'd like to editor of The Bamberg Herald. February 1971 79 INTERESTING, UNUSUAL ITEMS and SERVICES =x:::xx:::xx:::xx:::x ANTIQUES ,:::::,oc:> GITTMAN'S ON DEVINE, 2019 Devine St., O'NEIL'S ANTIQUE SHOP, 355 W. Palmetto HAMPTON Ill GALLERY, LTD. Artists Blair, Columbia, S.C. 29205. Phone 254-5505. Re St., Florence, s.c. 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