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Nobel laureate tells all about the universe By shelby livingston | contributor

John C. Mather, NASA astrophysicist and Nobel Prize laureate, walked into Clemson University’s Strom Thurmond Institute and told the full house, “I just noticed the moon and Jupiter are right in conjunction tonight. It’s so pretty.”

Beauty is one of the things that attracted Mather to astronomy when he was young. Today, he works for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

His brainchild, the Cosmic Background Explorer, won him the Nobel Prize in 2006 for finding evidence to support the Big Bang Theory and enhancing our understanding of the cosmos. Stephen Hawking called Mather’s findings “the most important discovery of the century, if not of all time.”

Mather spoke to Clemson University on Wednesday, Nov. 28, about the mysteries and misconceptions of the universe, his award-winning research, and what’s next for NASA. Less than 30 years ago, before Congress approved a plan to launch four major telescopes, humans knew very little about the universe, Mather said.

“We didn’t know how the universe started. Would we find new laws of physics? There were guesses but no evidence.

Cosmology was a very speculative subject at that time.”

Since then, many secrets of our universe have been revealed. To uncover the mysteries, Mather said scientists “look back in time, because we can see things as they were when light was sent to us.

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Light travels fast, but it’s not infinitely fast. When you look at things that are far away, you see them as how they used to be.”

What have scientists found? The Big Bang Theory has come to be known as fact, thanks to Mather’s work. But it’s not the explosive beginning most picture it to be. The title “Horrendous Space Kablooey” is a more fitting description, Mather said.

“We did not see an explosion. We only see the expansion. There doesn’t have to be a beginning. This is something that’s a little surprising to a lot of people because we are very intuitively sure that time runs along at a certain rate, and therefore there has to be a beginning. But I don’t know that that’s true,” Mather said.

Equally difficult to grasp is the idea that the universe is infinitely expanding.

“Astronomers do not observe a middle [of the universe],” Mather said. “We also have never observed an edge. There’s no spin axis, there are no poles, there’s no

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equator. The whole universe is running away from us. Therefore, there is not a center. And if there is, we can’t find it.”

Mather is currently the senior project scientist for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), to be launched in 2018. JWST is one of the biggest projects ever attempted in science. Using infrared optimization, the telescope will allow astronomers to see what the naked eye is incapable of. Situated nearly one million miles from Earth, the telescope will theoretically observe every stage of the universe’s history.

“We will be looking inside where stars are being formed today. If you take a picture with an infrared telescope, you can see through the dust. So we now have the ability to see inside the dust clouds and begin to learn about the formation of stars,” Mather said.

“Scientists have innumerable plans for the future,” he said. “Currently, they are hoping to find life on Mars. We may find it. There are hints that the [Curiosity] Rover has already found something very exciting. But when the people were quizzed about it, they refused to say what it is.”

Though astronomers are eager, the practicality of space exploration is and will always be questioned by some.

Mather, however, has no doubt of his field’s importance.

“We should all be proud of what’s been accomplished,” he said. “It’s really important for our culture. I want to know how we got here, and a lot of other people do, too. People care about our history and place in the universe. We are naturally curious.”

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The next crisis As the notification letters begin to arrive over the next several weeks, the hypothetical becomes reality for 5.7 million South Carolinians who will know with certainty that their Social Security numbers are in the hands of foreign hackers and that they now have to guard against identity theft for the rest of their lives.

Once again, South Carolina is an infamous No. 1. The raid at the state Department of Revenue is the largest cyberattack at a state agency in the nation’s history, says the consumer protection group Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, which collects breach data nationwide.

The temptation to rail against state government for this travesty is overpowering, and state Democrats yielded last week at multi-city news conferences blasting Gov. Nikki Haley’s administration for “the mother of all government dysfunctions,” in the words of state Sen. Vincent Sheheen, Haley’s 2010 gubernatorial opponent.

“When you have an incompetent government, you get incompetent results,” Sheheen told reporters. He is most certainly correct. However, the incompetence does not originate or end with Gov. Haley.

Yes, it’s appalling the state did not encrypt those Social Security numbers, and that Haley’s primary excuse for the failure amounts to “the feds didn’t make me.”

But the main reason those porous Department of Revenue computers were so easily hacked is their 40-year-old purchase date. Forget firewalls and malwarescanning, a ’70s-era computer system cannot run the cutting-edge software needed to withstand a modern cyberpirate.

Where is the evidence Sheheen – who joined the Legislature in 2001, four years before former Rep. Haley – or any of our elected leaders past or present took steps to bring DOR computers into the modern age before this cyber-raid occurred?

Or that he, Haley or their predecessors demanded an accounting from state agencies on steps taken to competently protect the personal data they extract from taxpayers by force of law?

It’s cheering that Haley now insists the state cannot continue “to have archaic data, archaic equipment and archaic systems that don’t protect the most sensitive information for people of our state.”

But the continuing problem was voiced by Republican Sen. Shane Massey of Edgefield, who told The State newspaper, “We tend to do restructuring in South Carolina only after there’s a crisis or some kind of scandal, which makes sense to some degree, but it’s reactionary instead of proactive. That is unfortunate.”

“Unfortunate” does not describe it. South Carolina government is rife with unaccountable boards, unfirable directors and dozens of state agencies that operate as independent fiefdoms, all thanks to a Legislature that relentlessly places power and personality politics ahead of coherent government.

This is why Haley can only suggest – not demand – that dozens of state agencies ramp up cybersecurity measures to the level she is requiring of her Cabinet agencies.

A handful of senators killed this year’s reform bill that would have extended her oversight of said agencies, simply to deny Haley the victory. The logic of state government’s executive branch functioning as a coherent whole was irrelevant to them.

Sheheen and Massey are pushing the Department of Administration bill again, but Sheheen says opponents are now using the hacking as proof Haley isn’t up to the job.

If the hacking proves anything, it’s that such blinkered tunnel-vision has got to end. Committee hearings, investigative audits and a raft of fresh security measures can slam this particular barn door shut, but the question will still remain: What crisis will South Carolina’s incoherent state government deliver next?

Putting the House in order This year marks South Carolina’s 120th General Assembly, which means it’s time to get organized and put our House in order – the S.C. House of Representatives, that is.

This column began as a primer for reporters, a little civics lesson that reminded me of the old Schoolhouse Rock cartoon – a non-animated, Palmetto-inspired version.

While the House Organizational Session is mostly pomp and circumstance, it matters. Since by our state constitution, one General Assembly cannot bind another, every two years the legislative branch begins anew. Enrolled legislative actions of the previous session’s General Assembly stand as enacted, but all pending bills, questions, as well as standing rules, officers and committees do not carry over to the next General Assembly.

The newly elected General Assembly starts with a clean slate, literally. While we have certified members whom the public has elected, there are technically no officers, rules, committees or chairmen. These do not yet exist and must be decided by the new General Assembly.

That is the entire purpose of the House’s Organizational Session and the Senate’s as well, which will follow at a later date.

Hence, the members of the newly elected House assembled at the State House this week to organize. The first order of business was to appoint a “Temporary Chairman” to very briefly serve as presiding officer. Historically, this been the most senior member of the House: hat tip to the most senior, Rep. Grady Brown (D-Bishopville).

Brown’s major task was to administer the Oath of Office to the newly elected members. Next, nominations are accepted and the House elects officers, which were: Speaker Bobby Harrell, who takes over for the temporary chairman (told you his reign was brief); Speaker Pro Tempore Jay Lucas; Clerk Charles Reid; SergeantAt-Arms Mitchell Dorman; Reading Clerk James “Bubba” Cromer Jr.; and Chaplain Charles E. Seastrunk, Jr. Then, like the first day of school, we as-

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sign seats for the next two years. This is probably the best show of the week.

Members corral at the back of the chamber as the names of the 46 counties are randomly drawn from a fishbowl (to maintain impartiality, a young child does the drawing). County delegations select their desks as the names are drawn – however, no delegation may have more than one center aisle seat. (Watch any State of the State address and you’ll understand why this prime handshaking spot is so coveted.)

With a seating chart set, the electronic voting system can be programmed.

While the 46-member Senate still votes by voice, the 124 House members use “Yea” and “Nay” buttons on their desks to cast votes. Once the programming is complete, House members return to adopt House Rules and elect members to serve on the two independent committees the Speaker does not appoint: the House Operations and Management Committee and the House Ethics Committee.

On the session’s second day, the newly elected Speaker appoints members of the other six standing committees. The Speaker’s committee assignments are passed out as one big list. The room goes silent as members eagerly search for their names (it’s very similar to a coach posting the final roaster after tryouts).

Committees, too, have no officers or rules. The six committees go through their own organizational process, electing a chairman and vice-chairman and adopting their own rules.

And that, in a very big nutshell, is what your Legislature did this week.

Greg Foster serves as the deputy chief of staff and director of communications for the Office of the Speaker in the S.C. House of Representatives.

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Tears bitter and sweet Open for me the gates of righteousness; I will enter and give thanks to the Lord.

This is the gate of the Lord, Through which the righteous may enter.

(Psalm 118) By nature, I’m not a crier. That doesn’t mean that I am bereft of deep emotions, or at least I do not think so. It’s just that my tears, of joy or of sadness, do not flow forth with ease.

Then why did I well up with tears when we chanted those verses in synagogue on the festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles)? As meaningful as the Psalm is, I realize that it was the plaintive melody, even more than the words, that tugged at my heart so compellingly.

The particular melody that Rabbi Julie sang, you see, is invested with bittersweet sentiments and memories that transport me back nearly a half-century to San Francisco, the Summer of Love, 1967, and a commune at the edge of Haight-Ashbury called The House of Love and Prayer.

That summer, home from Yeshiva, I was an on-and-off resident of The House of Love and Prayer. In fact, they ordained me “Assistant Resident Messianic Prophet in Training.” (For a yuk, check out the abbreviation!)

The resident guru of the House was one Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. At that time there were other gurus in the world of New Age Judaism, but none had the renown of Shlomo. He composed and sang beautifully exuberant and doleful melodies in hip coffeehouses, folk festivals, and the like. And he regaled his devotees and hangers-on with wonder-tales and parables from the mouths of saintly Chasidic Masters. (For more, Google him or listen to his melodies on YouTube.)

The first time I heard Shlomo sing his melody for Psalm 118 was on a Saturday night after we bid the Sabbath farewell.

Fifty or so of us crowded into the living room of the House, sitting on the floor, singing, clapping, swaying, holding on to each other shoulder-to-shoulder, embracing Shlomo’s songs and stories.

I recall most being surrounded by a feeling of all-wellness, wrapped in peace, welling up with love. Vietnam, draft cards, and political intrigue would have to wait. If only we could envelop the world in such a joyous, healing sensation.

For me, it was a coming of age, truly a Summer of Love. And today, it is the taproot from which my bittersweet tears

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flow whenever we chant those holy words to Shlomo’s mystical melody. I am back in San Francisco, the House, 1967, sweet and innocent times, a wisp of memory, a wistfulness born of yearning.

I cried once more on the holy days.

How ironic to be overwhelmed with tears on the very last day of the season, the day dedicated to rejoicing with the Torah.

I spent the holiday in Atlanta with my kids and grandchildren, worshiping at an orthodox synagogue overflowing with young families. Men and women, most of them half my age, circled the Torah scrolls, dancing and whirling while they raised their voices in Hebrew songs that celebrated God and His Word.

As the dancing subsided, the little children, at least a hundred of them, crowded the pulpit to receive their special blessing, as is the custom. They all huddled under a huge prayer shawl and we joyfully pronounced, “May the angel who redeemed me from all evil now bless these children!”

As I watched my grown children dancing and singing, and my grandchildren being led to the pulpit by their parents for their blessing, I could no longer restrain my tears.

Almost half a century has passed since the summer of Shlomo and the House.

What has happened to me, to us, during the intervening years is almost too much to fathom – birth and death, youth and old age, joy and regret, achievement and failure. And so we shed a tear for what once was and another for the promise of what may yet be. We take the bitter with the sweet, wonder how life has flown by, yearn for bygone days, marvel at our children having grown to adulthood, as their own children now huddle under the magical prayer shawl to receive their blessing.

How could one not look longingly back and hopefully forward without welling up with tears of the bitter and the sweet?

Marc Howard Wilson is a rabbi and writer in Greenville. He may be reached at marcwilson1216@aol.com. Read his essays at marcmusing.blogspot.com.

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Critics scoffed when talk of a baseball stadium in downtown Greenville got serious.

While a team from Minor League Baseball called the abandoned lumberyard on Main Street – just barely big enough to meet league stadium standards – one of the finest potential stadium sites they had seen, many Greenvillians called the idea the worst they’d ever heard.

The negatives ran long: Not enough parking. The area, just a few blocks from the newly opened Falls Park, was unsafe.

A ball field would cause nothing but headaches for the neighborhood, including a church next door.

Lawsuits, conflicts and controversy marked the long and winding road to baseball’s return to Greenville after the Class AA Braves left a deteriorating Municipal Stadium on Mauldin Road for Mississippi.

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“Baseball is meant to be played in downtowns, and Greenville has one of the top downtowns in America,” said Craig Brown, co-owner and president of the Greenville Drive, Class A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, which beat out several other teams for the market.

Fast-forward almost a decade.

Fluor Field, built by the team on land donated by the city, has become a model of how a stadium can encourage downtown development. Just three months after the completion of its seventh season in Greenville, the Drive is the recipient of Baseball America’s 2012 Bob Freitas Award, which recognizes a team from each minor league classification for its community involvement, long-term business success and operational excellence.

“The award really personifies what we try to stand for within the community,” Brown said. “We have felt from the beginning that we wanted to be a team that is part of the city, not just a team located in the city. Becoming a part of the fabric of the community, becoming part of the fabric of the Upstate, determines everything we do.”

The award was presented at the baseball winter meetings that concluded yesterday in Nashville, Tenn.

Minor league baseball is less about the team and more about the experience, especially at Class A where most players are not household names.

“Being able to be relevant and meaningful to the community will determine our success long-term,” Brown said.

His plan is working. The team was on pace to draw 350,000 fans this past season, but bad weather washed out a couple of games at the end of the season.

Part of the Drive’s success is the team’s effort to turn every game into an event focused on a segment of the community, Brown said.

A.J. Whittenberg Night centered on the engineering-focused elementary school, the first downtown school built in four decades.

Another initiative, the Drive Reading AllStars, promotes reading to more than 75,000 students in Greenville, Spartanburg and Pickens counties. The program culminates with four pre-game ceremonies celebrating participants’ reading successes.

And when the stadium is not hosting one of the team’s 70 home games, the Drive makes it available for events such as the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, college and high school baseball games and fundraisers for nonprofit groups.

Drive Business Downtown, a daylong event hosted by the Drive and accounting firm Elliott Davis in May, celebrated and promoted downtown businesses.

There are a lot more of those since the Drive’s first season in 2006.

The public-private partnership between the city and the Drive has proven to be an economic bonanza to the West End. Hundreds of commercial, residential and retail projects have been built or are planned since the stadium opened.

“We hoped the stadium would result in economic development for the West End,” Brown said. “To say we expected what has happened would not be accurate. The recession of 2009 and 2010 didn’t really slow it down. We’re happy to have played a small part in it.”

Greensboro, N.C., was one city Greenville looked to for inspiration during its pursuit of a downtown stadium, Mayor Knox White said.

That city faced many of the same challenges Greenville did: no dedicated parking, opposition from a historic church.

But there was one thing Greenville did differently: It required mixed-use development to be a part of its stadium project from the beginning. The stadium development included The Field House at the West End condominiums, office space and retail space.

“That was a significant action,” White said. “We didn’t want it to be dead space when baseball was not being played. Re-

quiring mixed use was our slam-dunk.

“Having people living near the stadium, working in the offices there and eating in the restaurants gave the area energy, even when the Drive wasn’t playing, and that creates a spin-off affect.”

White said the next phase of development in the West End will be at Markley and Rhett streets. Some projects have already been announced, and Riverwalk, a mixed-use development that had all of its apartments rented before the building was complete, is now finished.

The mayor said the city needs to “stick to the basics” in the West End. More mixeduse developments are needed to put “more footsteps on the sidewalks after noon and after hours.”

The Drive is “the poster child for how a stadium can drive downtown development,” South Atlantic League president Eric Krupa has said.

Just ask Charlotte. That city used Greenville as an example of downtown stadium success during its own successful attempt to move the Triple A Charlotte Knights from suburban Fort Mill, S.C., to downtown Charlotte.

Plans for Charlotte’s stadium – although bigger and on a bigger tract of land – have similarities to Greenville’s Fluor Field.

The proposed stadium has a mixed-use component with team offices at the rear of the stadium.

“It’s almost breathtaking how similar it is to our stadium,” White said. “There are legions of failed downtown stadiums out there, so it’s not surprising they’ve used one that has been as successful as ours as a model.”

Brown said he’s looking forward to a future that is as least as successful as the recent past.

“I’m as excited as I’ve ever been,” he said.

“To me, it’s only getting better.”

Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@communityjournals.com.

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It’s too early to say exactly how much impact the state Department of Revenue hacking scandal will have on Gov. Nikki Haley’s re-election prospects in 2014, said Chip Felkel, a prominent GOP strategist in Greenville.

“Fortunately, voters have a short memory,” he said. “But no matter how you slice this thing, she’s going to have to own it. In fact, she does own it.”

In mid-September, a foreign hacker broke into the Department of Revenue computers and stole the unencrypted tax records of 3.8 million individual filers, 1.9 million children claimed as dependents, and 700,000 businesses.

Haley wisely “tried to get out in front of this early,” Felkel said. “I’m not sure what more she could have done, or how much she would have been allowed to do.”

As the legislative panels begin their investigations, the governor is bound to come in for a beating, he said. “That’s just what legislators do.”

But in terms of the next gubernatorial race, much will depend on how well the state responds to the hacking scandal and how many are ultimately harmed by it, he said.

In a blistering report released Tuesday, the state Inspector General’s office noted that the state’s cybersecurity protection level is still inadequate and changes are urgently needed.

Gov. Haley ordered the review shortly after the DOR cyberattack came to light in October.

At minimum, the state needs to add a chief information security officer and centralize computer systems management, the report said.

“Given the state’s risk tolerance for absorbing another significant data loss, the current information security (INFOSEC) risk level, assessed at less than adequate, is not acceptable,” the report said.

“Further, regardless of the assessment of statewide risk, the current decentralized INFOSEC environment provides no visibility of risks in agencies, which is in-

compatible with state government’s due diligence responsibility to do everything possible to protect citizens’ information.”

The Inspector General recommended the state: Establish a statewide information security program; Replace the state’s decentralized governance model with a traditional, federated model that centralizes responsibility for cybersecurity; Establish a chief information security officer outside of the Division of State Information Technology to lead the development and implementation of a statewide INFOSEC program; Immediately designate an interim leader to take proactive responsibility for driving statewide INFOSEC issues while the Legislature weighs the statewide CISO position and other recommendations; Establish a steering committee to expedite and oversee the development of a statewide INFOSEC program; Identify and procure the use of a consultant to assist the state in building the new governance framework and developing statewide INFOSEC implementation options.

As state officials delve into the hacking, other issues are coming up, including how the state will pay the $20 million tab the state has accumulated in response to the hacking.

Haley has declined to comment on payment plans for the contracts she and former Revenue Director Jim Etter entered into with private monitoring firms after news of the hacking broke last month, The State newspaper reported.

Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey told The State the governor is consulting House and Senate budget-writing officials who sit with her on a budget oversight board.

“As soon as we come to a consensus, we’ll make the public aware,” he said.

The state owes the largest single amount, $12 million, to Experian. The first half of that is due Dec. 15. The rest must be paid by Jan. 31. The cost includes a year of credit monitoring for taxpayers who sign up by Jan. 31 and, for parents who enroll in a separate service, their under-18 children as well.

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Work on Cancer Survivors Park to begin in July Privately developed park will connect Falls Park and Cleveland Park

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It’s taken more than a dozen years, but it appears a Cancer Survivors Park will become reality in Greenville next summer.

Patients First, a nonprofit organization, plans to begin construction on the first phase of the $4.2 million park in July, Diane Gluck, the organization’s acting executive director, said at a work session of the Greenville City Council Monday afternoon.

The Cancer Survivors Park will link Cleveland Park with Falls Park and transform a part of the Swamp Rabbit Trail best known for hairpin turns around a

big embankment of kudzu and a metal “cheese grate” bridge that bicyclists and dogs alike fear to cross.

The park will have meditative space, gardens and trails, as well as a pavilion, water feature, bell and labyrinth.

Architect Ben Rook, who has worked on the project since its inception, said the Cancer Survivors Park will enhance the city’s park and trail system, creating a quiet place for anybody who has been touched in some way by cancer as well as a way to educate the public and bring attention to the disease.

It has taken years to forge the agreements necessary to make the project work, he said.

The park will take the third tier of parking at the Greenville Chamber of Commerce and be built on land owned

by Naturaland Trust and Renewable Water Resources.

The first phase of the project, estimated to cost $2.4 million, will include access

to the trail from Church Street, a new bridge, access trails and an earthen pad for the pavilion.

Construction of the first phase is expected to begin in July and take six months.

The “cheese grate” bridge will be replaced with an elevated single-span bridge positioned so that park visitors cannot see the nearby sewer pipes, Rook said. The new bridge will require three months to fabricate, Gluck said, and will be installed in one piece to minimize the amount of time the trail would have to be closed.

Construction of the pavilion, which has a tall spire that hints at Falls Park’s Liberty Bridge, is slated for the park’s second phase, estimated to cost $1.2 million.

Second phase construction is expected to start in Dec. 2013. In addition to the pavilion, that phase will include a water wall, an educational plaza and a labyrinth.

A third phase, expected to begin in

July 2014 and cost $600,000, includes gardens, a sculpture, kiosks and signage.

Gluck said Patients First has $600,000 in the bank and proposes to raise another $600,000 by July 1. She said the organization wants $1.2 million in capital improvement funds from the city to pay the rest of the first phase. The city already has $606,000 budgeted in capital improvement funds for the NEXT connector and another $630,000 for the bridge, said Dana Souza, the city’s parks and recreation director, who has been working with Patients First on the project.

Gluck said Patients First would pursue major donors and grants and will conduct a public capital campaign for the construction costs. It will pursue separate funding for an endowment. She said there are several naming rights opportunities in the park.

Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@communityjournals.com.

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In light of cuts in federal and state dollars allocated to pay for highway improvements and construction, Greenville County Council members heard information Tuesday on a way that York County has funded road construction and improvements since 1996: a capital projects sales tax.

At the council’s request, Phil Leazer, York County engineering project manager, described why and how York County chose to pursue a sales tax for infrastructure projects in 1996.

York was facing exponential growth, dangerous roadways and few planned highway projects from the state, Leazer told the council. The county turned to state law provisions that allowed a 1 percent local option sales tax for funding highway improvements. County Council opted to pursue the tax, dubbed Pennies for Progress, and proposed a referendum for the voters.

The referendum, which listed resident-prioritized projects on the ballot, passed with 51 percent of the vote in 1997, Leazer said. By law, the tax is limited to a certain number of years, funds must be used for the projects listed on the ballot and a commission of six citizens must determine the projects. County Council only has full approval or full denial of the proposed project list,

not the ability to reshuffle or replace projects, he said. The state Department of Revenue administers the funds.

Leazer said the tax raised $111 million, with roughly $40 million coming from county residents and the balance paid by visitors. With those funds, the county was able to leverage a match to the SC Transportation Infrastructure Bank (SCTIB) in order to widen 18 miles of I-77.

He said much of the funds generated went to state road improvements to ease congestion in the county, which is adjacent to Charlotte.

When the tax expired, the council proposed another referendum and the 1 percent tax passed with 73 percent of the vote in 2003. The second tax generated $172 million.

Residents supported the tax because they could see what it accomplished, Leazer said. A third referendum in Aug. 2011 passed with 82 percent of the vote.

Council members asked about project management, procurement and how the county marketed the referendum. Council chairman H.G. “Butch” Kirven said Greenville County has to “bring forward options and possibilities” for highway funding in the face of cutbacks, including the new state mandate that 25 percent of lo-

cal road improvement funds be diverted to state road maintenance.

Councilman Joe Dill said he would support a referendum if the local delegation approved.

Roads requiring county maintenance are funded through a $15 license tag fee and it’s the state roads that are suffering, he said. “I don’t think that people would want to pay another penny tax to improve county roads.”

All but six counties have a local option, school district, transportation or capital projects tax, according to the SC Department of Revenue. These include Oconee, Anderson, Greenville, Spartanburg, Union, Greenwood and Georgetown as of July 2012.

In other business, council passed an ordinance to issue a bond and refinancing to fund capital improvements for the BI-LO Center. Council also passed fee in lieu of tax agreements for Baldor Electric Company, Michelin North America and Integro Earth Fuels, Inc. Greenville County Council is not scheduled to meet again in December, but will convene again in January 2013.

Contact April A. Morris at amorris@communityjournals.com.

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Smith Moore Leatherwood’s core practice areas are litigation, health care, labor and employment, real estate and corporate law.

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Last week, Asheville, N.C.-based Tupelo Honey Cafe announced it would open a restaurant in ONE in early summer 2013.

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The law firm has had its Greenville offices in the SunTrust Bank building at 300 East McBee Ave. since 2002.

“The move to ONE will allow us to build a space that is custom-designed for the needs of our firm, allowing for a more efficient working environment while giving us the space to expand and grow in the future,” said Tod Hyche, partner in charge of Smith Moore Leatherwood’s Greenville office. “We are excited to be a part of such an innovative new development at ONE, while returning back to our roots on Main Street.”

The firm has been in Greenville for 67 years and has been located on or within blocks of Main Street during its entire existence.

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Infrastructure a major local government concern in 2013

By CHARLES SOWELL | staff

Local government leaders missed out on a give-and-take about the recent hacking scandal at the state Department of Revenue during last week’s Ten at the Top meeting at BMW. But they did benefit from an informative debate on issues like infrastructure maintenance and upgrades that are putting pressure on business leaders heading into 2013.

Along with the perennial issues of workers who lack the right kind of training for 21st century jobs and structural changes within the legislative system that could ease heartburn for the business community, the politicians and the audience spent an hour and a half on a wide-

ranging discussion at BMW’s Zentrum.

“We’d planned to have a discussion on the DOR hacking at part of this session,” said Ten at the Top Executive Director Dean Hybl. “We’d invited Sen. Billy O’Dell, who sits on the Senate panel investigating the hacking incident, but he wasn’t able to make it.”

Hybl said the organization is working hard to get information out to its members to ensure they have done everything possible to protect themselves from any potential loss.

“This is an emerging issue for us and we plan to hold sessions soon where it is discussed,” he said.

Infrastructure took top billing instead.

“Infrastructure is key to economic development. At the state and local level, governments need to get creative and solve infrastructure and transportation problems,” state Rep. Chandra Dillard, D-Greenville, told the group.

Sen. Mike Fair said since there is little likelihood there will be any increase in the state tax on gasoline soon, ideas like devoting a penny of local option sales tax

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Upstate leaders explore options at Ten at the Top gathering

South Carolina State Senator Mike Fair, representing district 6, makes comments during a panel discussion at the Upstate Elected Officials meeting while Anderson Mayor Terence Roberts, left, looks on.

money to highway issues seems a potentially good way to deal with local infrastructure issues.

Dillard and Fair, along with Anderson Mayor Terence Roberts and Union County Supervisor Tommy Sinclair, served as panelists for a group discussion moderated by Furman University President Rod Smolla.

This year, Richland County approved the extra penny sales tax for road im-

provements, which is expected to generate about $1 billion for road projects there.

Anderson County floated the penny sales tax idea in 2007, modeled after the successful York County measure, but voters didn’t buy it, Roberts said.

Marketing the specific benefits of the tax to voters is an important component, he said.

Greenville County Councilman Fred Payne said a penny sales tax to deal with highway issues in Greenville is likely to come up after the first of the year at County Square.

Payne, former president of Limestone College in Gaffney, said having an educated workforce is another of the major issues for many companies that are thinking of moving to the Upstate.

“One of the things I think Ten at the Top has done a wonderful job on is trying to improve educational opportunities for workers across the region,” he said.

Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@communityjournals.com.

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Dr. Timothy Yeatman didn’t start spending time in research laboratories in medical school, but began his pursuit of knowledge as a high school student in College Park, Md. “While I was in high school, college and medical school, I spent seven consecutive summers working at NIH (National Institutes of Health) … and at Washington Hospital Center, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Walter Reed Army Medical Center,” he said.

And since those summers, he hasn’t stopped his research, moving on to nearly two decades of unpacking the genetic code and behaviors of cancer at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla. Now Yeatman is bringing his passion for research to the Upstate as director of Gibbs Cancer Center and president of the Gibbs Research Institute.

The process to find Yeatman began several years ago, when the center’s foundation established an endowed chair to lead the cancer center.

“Developing a model for cancer research in Spartanburg will bring the best care to our doorstep,” said Bruce Holstein, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System president and CEO. “Dr. Yeatman will help us build and refine that model well into the future. Taking these steps now will develop prevention and treatment for us, our children and our grandchildren.”

After studying at Duke University and Emory University, Yeatman became interested in studying cancer when he was a fellow at the MD Anderson clinic, investigating why cancer appeared in certain or-

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Along the way, Yeatman worked with Dr. J. Craig Venter, one of the genomic researchers in the race to sequence the human genome, and was soon investigating the concept of documenting the genetic signatures of tumors after winning a National Cancer Institute Director’s Challenge grant.

Yeatman said he has witnessed technology evolve over a decade so that instead of sequencing one gene in a week, 20,000 genes can be sequenced in a day.

He was part of the Moffitt program’s evolution from a “community cancer center, at best, to a major force in cancer care nationwide.” Yeatman served in a variety of roles, including executive vice president for translational research, professor of surgery and oncologic sciences and section head of hepatobiliary surgery.

And as executive vice president for trans-

lational research at Moffitt, Yeatman said he learned about creating public/private partnerships involving biologists, surgeons, mathematicians and physicists. He soon helped develop the Total Cancer Care initiative in personalized medicine that would eventually gather a bio repository of 20,000 tumor samples.

The project was also a public/private partnership between Moffit Cancer Center and Merck pharmaceuticals, he said.

“Early on, everyone was a little shy about doing this, but really it turned out to be a spectacular alignment,” he said. “It really shows that when vision and leadership are aligned, you can do great things.” Focusing on the genetics of cancer can yield better diagnoses and the ability to tailor treatment, he said.

Working with the network of community hospitals to gather samples led Yeatman to Spartanburg and the Gibbs Cancer Center.

Bringing more effective cancer care and research to community hospitals is important

because approximately 80 percent of cancer patients are treated in the community, he said.

“If we can bring more clinical trials to community cancer centers, we can see more patients participating in clinical trials,” he said. “I want to take some of these lessons learned over the years and transfer them to Gibbs Cancer Center, which is a very good cancer center, and make it a next-generation cancer center.”

Yeatman is ready to begin building a research lab and program in the Upstate. In establishing that center, he said he wants to tap into local talent, including medical students, mathematicians and biostatisticians.

One change that he hopes to see is a meshing of cancer care.

“Cancer care is more fragmented than it should be,” he said, “and I’m looking for ways to defragment it.”

Contact April A. Morris at amorris@communityjournals.com.

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2012 Greenville Poinsettia Christmas Parade

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The crowd builds along North Main Street in anticipation of the start of the 2012 Greenville Poinsettia Christmas parade.

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Greenville B-Cycle to launch bike-sharing program this spring By april a. morris | staff

Next year, instead of driving or walking several blocks to get to shops, restaurants or other spots in downtown Greenville, residents and visitors will be able to snag a bicycle from a bike-sharing station to make the short journey.

Announced this week and set to be fully operational in the spring, Greenville B-Cycle will initially offer 28 adult bicycles at six stations for pickups or returns.

The bike-sharing system is a joint project involving Upstate Forever, the Greenville Hospital System, the Greenville Transit Authority and the Greenville County Recreation District.

Designed to be an inexpensive and healthier alternative to driving and parking, Greenville B-Cycle lets you buy a daily, weekly or annual membership costing $5 to $60 – and the first hour is free. According to Upstate Forever, approximate cost of the bikes is $4,000-$6,000 each, including the bicycles, docking stations, self-serve kiosks and software.

Bike stations are planned for the Hyatt Regency, Greenlink transit station, Greenville City Hall, Fluor Field, the Sterling Community Center and County Square.

Spartanburg has been using a B-Cycle system since July 2011 and has 14 bicycles divided between stations at Morgan Square and the Mary Black Foundation Rail Trail, said Laura Ringo, executive director of Partners for Active Living.

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Brad Wyche, executive director of Upstate Forever, makes a few comments during a press conference announcing the Greenville bike-sharing system set to start next spring.

that was launched in 2007, she said. “The program was so successful, we couldn’t keep up with demand.”

In the last 18 months, Spartanburg BCycle has logged 2,088 members who took 3,485 trips and burned more than a million calories, she said.

Greenville organizers say they hope that the bike-sharing program will also provide mobility for those who do not have reliable transportation. Brad Wyche, executive director of Upstate Forever, said the bikes will help to address the “last mile barrier,” often a stretch that’s too far to walk between public transportation and people’s workplaces.

The bicycles are unisex models that are easy to ride, have comfortable seats and feature a GPS system that tracks how far a rider goes along with the number of calories burned. Each will be outfitted with a cargo basket, chain guard, lock and LED lights, but not helmets. Organizers hope to secure grant funds to purchase helmets for participants.

Jason McDowell of B-Cycle said the bikes are designed to be “durable and as robust as possible,” often only needing replacement

grips, tires, seats and chains. He said the system is easy to use and is opening riders’ eyes to cycling beyond recreation. “The U.S. is just getting used to the bike as a tool rather than just a toy,” he said.

In addition to offering transportation, the B-Cycle system will reduce carbon emissions and pollution, along with providing much-needed health benefits, said Wyche. Dr. Angelo Sinopoli, chief medical officer at Greenville Hospital System, said the program “fits perfectly in our total health approach.”

Greenville County Councilwoman Xanthene Norris said she was happy to have County Square and the Sterling Community Center included in the new system.

Katy Smith, who rode to the B-Cycle announcement on her bicycle, said, “It’s a cool thing, but it’s also more efficient for our city.” She has been using her bicycle to run errands from her Augusta Road home for about three years, she said.

Smith added that the B-Cycle will offer people the opportunity to test out getting around by bike.

The first B-Cycle was started in Den-

ver in 2010 through a partnership with Humana, Trek Bicycle Corporation and Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Greenville will be the 17th B-Cycle location.

The Spartanburg program was funded through the Mary Black Foundation, the City of Spartanburg and a corporate donor. Spartanburg is looking to add two stations in early 2013 and two more by summer, Ringo said.

And for future connectivity, two BCycle programs in Colorado are piloting a cooperative use system where memberships could be used in any city with B-Cycle stations. This type of agreement may be possible between Spartanburg, Greenville and Charlotte, N.C., which launched a B-Cycle program several months ago, Ringo said.

For more information, visit www.bcycle.com.

Contact April A. Morris at amorris@communityjournals.com.

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Christmas trees and twinkling porch lights are cheerful holiday staples for most. Unfortunately, holiday decor has a dark side that’s keen on igniting the house and extinguishing the joy it so promised to bring.

A whopping 83 percent of Americans plan to decorate their homes for the Christmas holidays using electric lights and lighted Christmas trees, according dry and you just can’t take a chance on to the Electrical Safety Foundation. that.”

Without the proper precautions, Christmas lights pose another threat. however, celebrants are at risk: 14,000 Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of people are treated annually in hospital Greenville specializes in hanging lights emergency rooms during the holidays, and minimizing risk. Owner Keith said the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Drew is “surprised we don’t have more Commission. An average 170 house house fires.” fires and seven deaths occur each year “The biggest mistake people make,” due to holiday lights, while Christmas he said, “is when you hang Christmas trees cause an average 250 house fires lights you can’t just go on forever and and 14 deaths, reported the National keep stringing lights together and put Fire Protection Association. them on one extension cord. If you start Yet the holidays don’t overloading the circuit, the have to be risky. By taking first thing that will happen steps to eliminate hazards, “You only get is the wire will get hot and experts say chances of bedepending on how overone chance to loaded it is, it could ulticoming a statistic will be significantly reduced. fall off a ladder.” mately cause a house fire.”

Chief David Embry of What kind of lights Keith Drew, owner the River Falls Fire Deshould be strung?

Outdoor Lighting partment says the biggest “LED lights are the latest Perspectives concern is taking care of and the greatest. The big the Christmas tree. advantage with LED lights “The closer to Christmas it gets, es- is they draw so much less power that pecially between Christmas and New you can string more of them together.

Year’s, there are more fires because So I think from the perspective of safeeverybody who has a live tree, they’re ty, LED is certainly a good alternative,” dried out by then,” Embry said. “It Drew said. makes them much more susceptible [to Not all injuries will come from eleccatching fire].” tric fires, however. Candles and ladders Keeping the tree watered will reduce are big nemeses to the holidays as well. its flammability, but after Christmas the “People get up on these ladders once a tree must go, he said. “On Christmas year. They are leaning all over the place Day or the day after, take it out. You – I think that is one of the most dangerhave to, because it’s the difference be- ous things you can do,” Drew said. tween losing your house and not.”

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives advisEmbry also warns against space heat- es working in pairs to hang roof lights. ers in the vicinity of the tree.

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“We recommend keeping it three feet “You only get one chance to fall off a from any combustible material, but I ladder,” Drew said. wouldn’t feel safe putting a little heater within three feet. Make it five feet from Contact Shelby Livingston at the tree because it’s already going to be slivingston@communityjournals.com.

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Fashion forward Corey Urbina pens chapter for new style guidebook

By APRIL A. MORRIS | staff

Selecting the best outfit for a first impression can be a daunting task for the staunchest of hearts. Choosing clothes that flatter your body shape can be even more challenging – which is why helping people look good and feel the same way has been the focus of Greenville stylist Corey Urbina’s work for the last seven years.

Earlier this year, Urbina translated her knowledge and personal experience into a chapter for the new book, “The Power of DRES: DRES System’s Guide to Building a Professional Image and Working Wardrobe.”

Urbina collaborated with eight other professional stylists from across the nation to write a chapter apiece. The

stylists added personal stories that reveal how they feel about fashion and their own style, which makes the guide unique, Urbina said.

She opted to train in the DRES system – which stands for the body types diamond, ruby, emerald and sapphire – because the holistic approach to styling appealed to her, she said. Urbina was later asked to contribute to the style guide.

Little did Urbina know that when she switched from nearly two decades in the social work field to fashion consulting, her counseling skills would serve her well. Urbina’s chapter is titled “Our Relationship With Clothes” and focuses on the meaning of style and the factors that influence it. She said the chapter explores the psychology of image and how image is connected to personality.

“I realize how connected the internal and external are,” Urbina said.

Going through a client’s wardrobe is similar to helping that client delve into personal problems, she said. “It’s an intimate

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thing to let someone into your closet.”

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goals, shares style guidelines for their body types, performs a “closet edit,” and creates outfits and even a shopping list for essentials. “I really try to help an individual find out how they can express their uniqueness through fashion,” she said.

A former resident of Washington, D.C., Urbina moved her business, Style Matters, to the Upstate about 18 months ago. She said she learned about Greenville through a feature in US Airways’ magazine. “Soon I was spending more time in Greenville than my husband,” she said.

In addition to serving clients as a style consultant and personal shopper, she also is a fashion blogger and speaker.

“The Power of DRES” is available at the Fiction Addiction bookstore in Greenville. For more information on Style Matters, visit www.stylemattersgreenville.com.

Contact April A. Morris at amorris@communityjournals.com.

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THROUGH DEC. 24

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

SANTA EVERY NIGHT FROM 69 PM

We sincerely appreciate the support of the following Upstate businesses, organizations and individuals for their support. Their contributions help make Roper Mountain Holiday Lights become more brilliant each year, while ultimately benefiting Rotary Charities and the Roper Mountain Science Center Association with the proceeds raised from Holiday Lights.

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Giving the Northside a voice Oral history sets the record straight for Spartanburg community

Spartanburg’s Northside Community members wanted to tell their own story, so the Mary Black Foundation, the Hub City Writers Project and several other organizations teamed up to give them a voice.

“We were working with community members on health issues several years ago when they mentioned they’d like to tell their story,” said Curt McPhail, a program officer for Mary Black.

McPhail “They said there were lots of people telling their story for them and they wanted a chance to tell it themselves.”

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Northside residents, city officials and residents turn out for the unveiling of “Voices of the Northside.”

Writers Project about producing a CD of Northside residents speaking out for themselves, and the result, “Voices of the Northside,” was released this week at the Hub City Bookstore on Main Street.

An audience of about 40 neighborhood residents and city officials turned out for the event. City Manager Ed Memmott said the CD’s release was a plus for the neighborhood and a plus for the city’s efforts to revitalize the Northside.

For decades, crumbling cotton mills,

old mill houses, crime and poverty defined the Northside. Then came the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine and the city’s plans to revamp the area.

Residents felt the well-meaning stories being told about Northside didn’t do the tight-knit community justice.

Sure there was poverty, but there was also a sense of closeness and place. A community where a few staunch residents kept tabs on the young people, where folks shared from their gardens

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and no one had ever heard of things like food deserts.

“This isn’t a scholarly oral history,” said McPhail. “These are the voices of the people who live in the Northside, standing up for themselves and describing their home as they remember it.”

The project is also a hopeful look ahead for the community to a day when the kind of life the old folks remember might be again, and even better, with jobs and work programs, better educational opportunities and health care, he said.

The Northside is a large geographic area stretching from the city railroad station to Cleveland Park and from the County Administration Building to the fairgrounds.

The CD project consisted of about 50 interviews, of which 28 made the disc.

There are hopes the Mary Black Foundation, which funded “Voices,” will help produce more CDs, McPhail said.

It is available at Hub City Bookstore for $5.

Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@communityjournals.com.

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The Upcountry History Museum will host “Holiday of Freedom: Commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation” on Dec. 7, 6:30-8:30 p.m., to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. For this weekend only, see an original agreement from 1863, likely between freed South Carolina slaves and their former owner, as well as performances by the Nicholtown Community Choir, live storytelling and characters in period costume. Cost is regular admission. For more information, call 864-4673100 or visit www.upcountryhistory.org.

The Greenville Christmas Walk is coming to Cleveland Park on Dec. 15 at 5:30 p.m. The park will be decorated with thousands of lights and Christmas music will fill the air. The feature attraction is the 40-foot megatree.

Adult participants receive a souvenir mug and kids get flashing Santa hats. Registration is $20 for adults and $10 for kids. Visit www.greenvillesantarun.com for details.

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For more information, visit www. charlestoncooks.com.

Michael Cogdill, WYFF news anchor, journalist and author, will speak on “Reflections of the Season ” at the First Friday Luncheon on Dec. 7, at Greer City Hall.

Held by the Greater Greer Chamber of Commerce, the First Friday Luncheon is open to the community with registration at www.greerchamber.com required. Cost is $10-$15.

Skating students will entertain audiences on Dec. 7-8, 6 p.m., at the Pavilion Recreation Complex when they take to the ice with their version of a Country Christmas. The free shows include tunes from country favorites. Bring a new, unwrapped toy for the Toys for Tots drive and receive free admission to the 8 p.m. public skating session after the shows. The Pavilion is located at 400 Scottswood Drive, Taylors. For more information, call 864-322-7529 or visit www.greenvillerec.com.

The Mauldin Garden Club will have its annual Christmas party on Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. in the Mauldin Cultural Center at 101 E. Butler Road. Regular meetings will resume in January. Daffodil sales continue through Dec. 8. Bags of 25 large bulbs are sold for $12.50 each from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturdays at the Mauldin Cultural Center. For more information, contact Ann Smith at jerryannesm115@charter.net.

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forming holiday songs at Roper Mountain Holiday Lights. Each school will perform at 6:30 p.m. in Winter Wonderland. Groups include: Sue Cleveland Singers, Dec. 10; JL Mann High School Choir, Dec. 13; and Robert E. Cashion Elementary School Choir, Dec. 16.

In addition, dog owners are invited to bring their pets to Winter Wonderland on Dec. 10 and 17. Roper Mountain Holiday Lights is open every evening 6-10 p.m. through Dec. 30. Admission is $10-$40. For more information, visit www.ropermountainholidaylights.com.

Learn guidelines for eating less sodium, which can help manage congestive heart failure and hypertension, on Dec. 10, 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m. or 12:30 p.m., at the Greenville Hospital System Life Center. The event is free; but registration is required. To register, call 4554010.

Dr. Gulzar Merchant, a rheumatologist with Greenville Hospital System, will discuss symptoms and challenges of rheumatoid arthritis and what you can do about them on Dec. 12, 10:30-11:30 a.m., at the Greenville Hospital System Life Center. Lunch will follow the free event, but registration is required. To register, call 877-447-4636 or visit www.ghs.org/360healthed.

Learn the origins of stress and how your body responds to it on Dec. 12, 8:30 a.m. or 12:30 p.m., at the Greenville Hospital System Life Center. The event is free, but registration is required. To register, call 864455-4021.

Learn about Greenville Hospital System’s nursemidwifery program and how a midwife can enhance the birthing process on Dec. 13, 6-8 p.m., at Greenville Memorial Hospital. Light refreshments will be provided and a tour of The Family Birthplace will follow the event. It is free to attend, but registration is required. To register, call 877-447-4636 or visit www.ghs. org/360healthed.

Leadership Greenville’s Class 39 is hosting a groundbreaking and tree planting ceremony for the new Swamp Rabbit Station at the railcar located by the Sulphur Springs Road and Greenville Hospital System Swamp Rabbit Trail intersection on Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. The day is also S.C. Arbor Day, and Class 39 has partnered with TreesGreenville to raise awareness about their important mission while beginning the beautification of the pocket park.

Fiction Addiction, located at 1175 Woods Crossing Road, will host a launch party for John Carenen’s debut novel “Signs of Struggle” on Dec. 15 from 4-6 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public. In addition, the store will host a preschool story time featuring “The Gingerbread Pirates” by Kristin Kladstrup on Dec. 20 at 10:30 a.m. For more information, call 864-675-0540.

Book Your Lunch will feature South Carolina artist Mary Whyte on Dec. 18 at noon at The Lazy Goat in Greenville. The lunch also includes a book signing of Whyte’s “Down Bohicket Road,” which benefits the Hebron Saint Francis Senior Center on Johns Island. Tickets are $25 and must be purchased in advance at www. bookyourlunch.com or by calling Fiction Addiction at 864-675-0540.

The Santa Run will be on Dec. 22 at 5:30 p.m. at the Kroc Center of Greenville. The run features holiday lights and music throughout Cleveland Park, the 40foot megatree, the Fruitcake Relay and a free post-race party. Registration cost is $10-$39. For more information, visit www.greenvillesantarun.com.

Fiction Addiction, 1175 Woods Crossing Road in Greenville, will host a preschool story time featuring “My Brave Year of Firsts” by Jamie Lee Curtis on Dec. 27 at 10:30 a.m.

For more information, call 864-675-0540.

Spartanburg Science Center will offer four days of science camps for kids out of school and looking for something fun to do. Camps will be meet Thursdays and Fridays, Dec. 27-28 and Jan. 3-4. Morning and afternoon camps are available. Subject matter will vary and cost is $30-$40 per session. The camps are open to kids in grades 6-11. For more information, call 864-583-2777.

Governor Nikki Haley recently announced that the application and guidelines are now available for counties that want to participate in the South Carolina Work Ready Communities initiative. A Work Ready Community is a measure of the quality of a county’s workforce and South Carolina was one of four pilot states selected to participate. The initiative certifies the quality of the workforce based on four criteria: high school graduation, soft skills development, business support and National Career Readiness Certificate holders. For more information, visit www.scworkready.org.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District will close visitor centers at Hartwell Dam and Lake and Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake on weekends through Feb. 24, 2013. The J. Strom Thurmond Dam and Lake visitors’ center will remain open on weekends during the winter months. The weekend closures are a result of declining winter visitation numbers. Weekend operation will resume on March 2, 2013. The visitor centers will remain open during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

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Members of the Shannon Forest Christian School delegation is ready for the challenge of Youth in Government 2012.

SFCS seventhgrader Sawyer Norman, first-ever YIG Middle School Lieutenant Youth Governor .

International Educational Exchange, ranking fourth among the nation’s top 40 baccalaureate institutions.

Wofford, which consistently has ranked in the top 10 for more than 15 years, is the only South Carolina institution included on any of the report’s three lists for percentage of undergraduate participation in study abroad programs. For more information, visit www.wofford. edu/internationalprograms.

Shannon Forest Christian School students recently returned from the 2012 YMCA Youth in Government Program where seventh grade student Sawyer Norman was elected the first-ever Middle School Lieutenant Youth Governor in YIG history. Junior Samuel Glenn and seventh-grader Colby King were both named outstanding statesmen and a total of four bills from SFCS delegates were passed through to the governor’s desk.

Legacy Charter School is partnering with The Hispanic Alliance to host a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Info Session on Dec. 8, 1-4 p.m. The information session, open to all Greenville residents, will be held at the Legacy Charter School Parker Campus at 900 Woodside Avenue, Greenville.

Greenville Middle Academy’s annual winter concerts include chorus on Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. and strings on Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. Both concerts will be held in the school cafeteria and family, friends and the public are invited to attend.

Stone Academy’s artist-in-residence Jef Lambdin, “Jef the Mime,” teaches mime to Jennifer Coley’s first grade class. The weeklong artist-in-residency was partially sponsored by an ABC grant from the SC Arts Commission.

The Fine Arts Center’s fifth annual Metals Students Holiday Sale is going on through Dec. 18, 9-9:15 a.m., 1-1:30 p.m., 3:20-4 p.m., or by appointment by calling 864-355-2671 or kcassell@greenville.k12.sc.us. Fifty percent of the item’s sale price is paid to the student artist and the other 50 percent supports the Metals Department.

Reindeer Lane Holiday Shop will be coming to Chandler Creek Elementary Dec. 10-14. The annual holiday

shop allows students to purchase small items as gifts for their family. Volunteers are needed to help with the shop and those interested should contact the PTA at 355-2417 or e-mail at 109pta@greenville.k12.sc.us.

Spartanburg Community College recently received a $10,000 grant from the Heritage Classic Foundation to support the LEGO Robotics program in Cherokee County. The grant was made possible by the 2012 RBC Heritage PGA TOUR golf tournament and the Verizon Foundation. The Verizon Foundation awarded a threeyear, $1.5 million grant to the Heritage Classic Foundation in 2011. A portion of the funding is to be used to increase students’ interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).

Mauldin High School recently announced that the 2012 Wendy’s High School Heisman Winners are Noah LaBelle and Ansley Speaks. LaBelle is a cross-country athlete and was three-year varsity letter winner in track, team leader on the regional cross-country team and member of world record-setting 100x5K relay team.

Speaks, a tennis player, recently received a full scholarship to Furman University and has won four years in a row AAAA for single play. She is on the Mauldin team and has won three years in a row. She is also a three-time 4A high school player of the year.

Wellesley College announced the names of the 40 women who make up the 2013 Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs class, including Tricia Lu, a junior biological sciences major from Greer. The women will spend several weeks in Jan. learning to become global leaders from institute faculty, visiting professors Henry “Hank” Paulson and Wendy Judge Paulson, and from former Secretary Albright herself.

Wofford College again is among the national leaders in undergraduate participation in study abroad programs, according to the 2012 Open Doors Report on

Washington Center students Kaylen Horner (left) and Kathryn Burkhardt (right) along with their teacher Sharon Russo (center) display original art of Pete the Cat created especially for the school by illustrator James Dean.

Washington Center has been celebrating the “Pete the Cat” craze. During recent months, several classes used Pete as their theme for classroom door and pumpkin decoration contests. Jean Ashmore’s and Sharon Russo’s classes sent James Dean, the illustrator of the book series, information about the school and photos.

Dean surprised both classes with packages of Pete the Cat illustrations created especially for the students.

Greer Middle College Charter High School celebrated the season for giving by collaborating with the J. Harley Bonds Career Center to collect and deliver more than 3,000 cans of food to Greer Relief.

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Charities of the Carolinas benefit on Dec. 7. Vang, who goes by “Q,” was crowned Mrs. United States in July and has supported Ronald McDonald Houses since the passing of her six-month-old son, Khai. Khai was born with congenital heart defects and underwent four open-heart surgeries during his short life. To attend the Vang McGala, contact Emily Muserallo at emuserallo@rmhcarolinas.com or call 864-272-0197.

Last Friday, on opening night of The Carolina Ballet Theatre’s “The Nutcracker” at the Peace Center, representatives from Make-A-Wish South Carolina and TD Bank presented a Steinway grand piano to wish child Peter, an 11-year-old Spartanburg native who has Down syndrome and has been diagnosed with leukemia. The Carolina Ballet Theatre had invited Peter, a prodigy pianist, to play a Christmas song on stage, when Make-A-Wish South Carolina President and CEO Russell Smith, along with TD Bank representative Linda McGuigan, revealed that his wish for a piano of his own had come true.

Delta Children’s Products recently donated 50 new cribs to the Soteria Community Development Corporation in Greenville. The donation was made possible via the help of K.I.D.S, a nonprofit organization that connects companies and children in need. This is part of a larger donation made to K.I.D.S. by Delta, which promised to donate 2,000 cribs to the organization.

Sugar Creek Fun Runs will hold its annual Jingle Bell Jog and Elf Run on Dec. 8. The Jingle Bell Jog is a 5K through the Sugar Creek neighborhood and participants dress in holiday garb to compete. The event is also a fundraiser for The Frazee Dream Center and Daily Bread Ministries. For more information, call 864-3630570, email info@sugarcreekfunruns.com or visit www. sugarcreekfunruns.com.

Ten Thousand Villages at 2 West Lewis Plaza, Greenville, will donate 15 percent of its holiday sales to local charities as part of its Community Shopping Sundays in December. On Dec. 9, patrons can help retired greyhound racers through Crossroads Greyhounds. And on Dec. 16, proceeds will support Triune Mercy Center, which provides services for the area’s homeless. In addition, Ten Thousand Villages will collect monetary donations for these charities on the dates. For more information, call 864-239-4120.

Mrs. United States, Aquillia Vang, will be appearing at the Holiday McGala, a Ronald McDonald House

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On Dec. 7, the Greenville Road Warriors will host their tenth home game and the Teddy Bear Toss, a benefit for the Toys for Tots Program. Fans are encouraged to bring stuffed animals to throw onto the ice after the first goal of the game is scored. Once all toys are on the ice, they are collected and given to the Greenville Toys for Tots program. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.greenvilleroadwarriors.com or the BI-LO Center box office.

The Avon Store in Simpsonville is partnering with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Upstate. Santa Claus will visit the Avon Store on Dec. 8 from noon to 4 p.m. Santa will pose for pictures with children and accept Christmas lists. Curly Bears are available for $19.99 apiece. The bears will be given to any Little Brothers and Little Sisters who visit Santa during this event. Forty percent of the day’s sales and additional donations will benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters Upstate. The BBBS Upstate helps atrisk youth in Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Pickens, Oconee, and Laurens counties.

The Gatehouse Restaurant in Pickens will host a pancake breakfast from 9 to 11 a.m. on Dec. 8. The event will benefit the Young Appalachian Music program. A breakfast, including pancakes, eggs, grits, bacon or sausage and a drink, will be $6 and all profits go to the YAM program. Entertainment will be provided by the Sweet Potato Pie Kids, an all-star YAM band. Tickets can be purchased from any YAM student, from the Gatehouse Restaurant, from the Oolenoy Community Center on Friday nights or at the door on the day of the event. For more information, visit www.yamupstate.org, call 864878-4257 or e-mail mcdanibw1@gmail.com.

The Mary Black Foundation recently awarded $915,989 in grants to 16 nonprofit organizations in Spartanburg County. The foundation awarded five grants in the Healthy Eating and Active Living category and 11 grants in the Community Health Fund category. The county of Spartanburg receives benefits such as afterschool programs, aid for seniors and funding for community centers through these programs. For more information, visit www.maryblackfoundation.org.

SC Telco Federal Credit Union announced a partnership with Greenville County’s chapter of Habitat for

Humanity. The goal of this partnership is to build a Habitat home in Greenville County by the summer of 2013. SC Telco donated $31,000 toward the goal and remaining funds will be raised by the employees and the 40,000 members of the credit union. Habitat Greenville has provided home ownership to more than 300 lowincome residents since 1985.

The Greer Soup Kitchen and Daily Bread Ministries are taking donations of canned goods and non-perishable food items. Until Dec. 21, items can be dropped off at Leon Hix Insurance Agency on Wade Hampton Blvd., Greer. All donations go directly to the Greer Soup Kitchen and Daily Bread Ministries to feed those in need. With every donation, the donor’s name will be entered into a drawing to win a flat screen television. The drawing will be held at 5 p.m. on Dec. 21.

Although National Collection Week has ended, Samaritan’s Purse invites donors to continue Operation Christmas Child by using their online tool, Build a Box. The program has already collected 45,000 shoe boxes packed with school supplies, toys and necessity items. To aid in the cause, visit www.samritanspurse. org/occ and fill a shoebox online.

Books-A-Million in Anderson is hosting a book and toy drive through Dec. 24 to benefit the Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Upstate. Customers can purchase a book or toy that will be donated to a Little Brother or Little Sister in the Upstate. The Big Brothers Big Sisters Upstate program reaches at-risk children, ages 6 to 18, throughout the Upstate.

The Phillis Wheatley Association presents The Stars Come Out to Shine, a fundraiser, featuring pianist Emile Pandolfi and Broadway star Phillip Boykin. The event will be on Jan. 11 from 6:30 to 11 p.m. at Thornblade Club in Greer. For tickets and more information, call 864-235-3411 or visit www.philliswheatley.org.

The Spartanburg County Foundation is seeking nominations for the seventh annual Mary L. Thomas Award for Civic Leadership and Community Change. This award honors individuals who are making a significant difference in the Spartanburg community through innovation, leadership and civic participation. The recipient will be presented with an award at the Foundation’s Annual Meeting in March and will be honored with a $5,000 grant to be given to a charity selected by the recipient and the foundation. The deadline for nominations is Jan 16. To fill out a nomination or for more information, visit www.spcf.org or call 864-582-0138.

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By CINDY LANDRUM | staff

“Mary Poppins” is a classic tale set in Edwardian-era London focusing on a mysterious nanny who transforms the lives of the dysfunctional Banks family.

But when the musical descends upon Greenville Tuesday for a weeklong run at the Peace Center, don’t expect to see a staged version of the iconic 1964 Disney film that starred Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke.

The musical still revolves around the world’s most famous nanny and handyman Bert and includes many of the songs from the popular film score, notably “Chim, Chim, Cheree,” “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” “A Spoonful of Sugar” and “Step in Time.”

But it includes more of the book by P.L. Travers, something director Anthony Lyn said gives

the musical more meat than the film.

“Everyone knows the film … it’s one of the classic movies of all time,” he said. “I think we’ve taken the best elements of the film and the best elements of the book. Some of the audience may come expecting to see the film on stage and leave with something I think is much deeper.”

The book focuses more on the father and his troubles, making the action onstage more moving that the film, Lyn said.

“When Mary Poppins arrives, there’s a family in crisis and she helps put them back together.

George, the father, has no time for his family and she helps him see that.”

The irony that George Banks is a banker isn’t lost on Lyn. “Going through all the financial crises we have lately, I think is one of the reasons the MARY POPPINS continued on PAGE 36

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Having the staged version of “Mary Poppins” include more of the book was a result of Travers’ disdain for the Disney movie, which she believed failed to fully capture her books.

Travers, who died in 1996, allowed a stage production with the stipulation in her will that only English-born writers be allowed to work on the project and no one from the film production would be directly involved with the creative process of the stage musical.

Four productions of “Mary Poppins” are running on three continents.

The North American tour launched in Chicago in March 2009 and has played to 2 million people in 30 cities.

The musical, winner of 44 major theater awards including the Tony, Olivier, Helpmann and Evening Standard awards, has been seen by 9.3 million

people worldwide and has grossed more than $644 million.

“The response to ‘Mary Poppins’ has been amazing,” Lyn said.

The producers hired Jim Steinmeyer, a man who worked full-time for magician David Copperfield.

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hat rack. She proceeds to put her bag on the floor, pulls out a 5-foot tall hat stand and hangs her hat.

She also pulls a 4-foot mirror out and a 2 1/2-foot tall potted plant. A blanket and two pillows are flicked open to become a bed.

“People always ask me, ‘How do you do that,’ and I never say,” Lyn said. “It’s really cool magic.”

And it wouldn’t be “Mary Poppins” without a flying scene.

“Mary Poppins has to fly; she’s Mary Poppins,” Lyn said.

The musical also features new songs.

“You get what happens in the film plus,” Lyn said.

Lyn, who was worldwide associate director for “The Lion King” musical, said bringing a Disney film to the stage is filled with pressure because of the high expectations. “Directly placing the film on stage doesn’t work, mainly because

film and theater are two different mediums. What works on film rarely works on stage and vice-versa.”

Lyn said the musical must appeal to the audience in a different way. “‘Lion King’ was completely reinvented for the stage,” he said. “We’ve re-invented ‘Mary Poppins’ for theater without losing what made the movie so popular.”

Lyn said Mary Poppins is whoever the audience wants her to be.

“She’s a force that comes into your life when you least expect it, makes you think about things differently and changes your way of thinking, and your life, forever,” he said. “In the real world, that force may be a teacher, a minister, a mentor, a friend, or like Mary Poppins, a stranger.”

“Mary Poppins” opens Tuesday and runs through Dec. 16.

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For those who think some holidayrelated entertainment is good and a bunch is a whole lot better, Spartanburg Little Theatre’s Next Stages’ upcoming Christmas production is the perfect fit.

That’s because Next Stages’ annual Christmas production at The Showroom at Hub-Bub in Spartanburg isn’t just one Christmas story, it’s all of them – in one laugh-filled evening.

“Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)” is everything Christmas, from “It’s a Wonderful Life” to “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” to “The Gift of the Magi.”

Unlike the previous Next Stages’ productions at the Showroom, “Every Christmas Story Ever Told” is not an “anti-Christmas show,” Spartanburg Little Theatre Executive Artistic Director Jay Coffman said.

“This one is more celebratory about Christmas,” he said. “Ultimately, this show is a really funny celebration of the holidays. And we can all use a little bit more laughter during the holidays.”

Tired of performing Charles Dickens’ yuletide classic “A Christmas Carol,” three actors rebel and set out to perform every Christmas story ever told. From Frosty to the Grinch, Charlie Brown to George Bailey, no pop culture holiday icon, carol or tradition is spared.

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Lisa Biggs couldn’t have picked a more fitting production in which to make her Centre Stage debut.

Biggs is a character voice actor who has made her living sounding like a kid in movies and televisions shows produced by Nickelodeon, Disney and many of the country’s larger animation studios.

Now she can add Centre Stage’s Christmas production, “Miracle on 34th Street…A Live Radio Show,” to the list.

“This show is right up my alley,” said the 34-year-old Biggs, who is the voice of Susie, the little girl who does not believe in Santa Claus. “Kids’ voice-over is my signature thing.”

Centre Stage is one of two Upstate theaters producing “Miracle on 34th Street” this year.

The Fountain Inn Repertory Experience (FIRE) is doing a fully staged version of the same script.

FIRE’s performances are scheduled for Dec. 7, 8, 14 and 15 at 7:30 p.m. and on Dec. 9 and 16 at 3 p.m. at the Fountain Inn Center for Visual and Performing Arts.

FIRE Artistic Director Zachary Pelicano said “Miracle on 34th Street” is a popular holiday show because of what

Lisa Biggs, a voice actor for more than a decade, plays the role of the child Susie in Centre Stage’s production of “Miracle on 34th Street.”

it represents.

“It’s the story of Kris Kringle and everything he represents: good will, giving selflessly, faith,” he said.

FIRE’s production begins with an indoor parade, Pelicano said.

“The parade happens inside the theater,” he said. “I think people will be amazed. We’ve got a few tricks up our sleeves to make it happen.”

Centre Stage’s “Miracle” is set in a resort town “somewhere in the U.S.” that has won the honor of recreating the radio classic “A Miracle on 34th Street” from the golden age of radio.

Ten actors play a variety of roles and also perform commercial jingles. There is an onstage pianist.

Biggs, who moved back to Green-

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of your voice,” she said. “It’s really character acting. In every voice-over you do, you’re a character.”

Biggs’ voice can be heard in the animated movie “Despicable Me” and as the Pound Puppy “Cupcake,” found on the toy shelves of a leading department store. She’s working on some upcoming animated series, including “Patches the Bear” and as a princess in an animated series that is expected to appear on cable television. She does her work from a studio in her home.

Biggs said “Miracle” allows her to do something she can’t do during her voice-over work.

“It’s cool to be in front of a live audience,” she said. “It’s nice to be able to play off of them.”

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ville in July, said she was teased and bullied through middle and high school because of her voice.

Even as a sophomore in college, after Biggs gave an oral presentation in sociology class, her professor told her privately, “Your presentation was great, but you know if anybody is going to take you seriously in the real world you’re going to have to do something about your voice.”

“I had all these people telling me what I couldn’t do, what I wouldn’t do,” she said. “I decided to focus on what I could do.”

Biggs studied acting for two semesters and her parents paid for a studio session for her graduation gift. She was picked up by a talent agency. She is the creator of Voxy Ladies, the voice-over industry’s very first all-female collective of voice talent.

Biggs said being a voice actor is hard work.

“It’s an art form. It’s more than just opening your mouth,” she said. “It’s acting at its core.”

Where stage actors have gestures, costumes and sets to help them become a character, voice actors have just one thing – their voices.

“The only tool you have is the sound

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sound check with vincent harris

Honest contradictions Darby Wilcox always performs from ‘an emotional place’ A Darby Wilcox performance can be an exercise in contradictions. Wilcox’s cheerful demeanor, quirky humor and obvious love of live performance stand in stark contrast to her emotionally charged, heavily confessional songwriting. Her powerful vocals are just as passionate as her songwriting, and she is incredibly skilled at making the intimate seem universal. She was one of the first artists I thought about when I began writing this column, and our conversation was just as thoughtful and honest as her songwriting.

Carlos Agudelo, Artistic Director Guest Artist McGee Maddox from the National Ballet of Canada

Tell me about how you first started playing.

Music has been part of me my whole life. My dad’s a musician, and I remember as a kid I was always singing or playing something. I played flute for a while in middle school, until I got a dislocated pinky playing basketball. I was like, “YES! A way out!” because it wasn’t really something I could sing with. And then I found this guitar that was my mom’s; my dad bought it for her at a pawn shop. It had like four strings on it, and that’s what I learned to play on. That’s when I started writing songs, too.

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So you’ve always written?

Yeah, and it was personal stuff from the start. I started writing when I was 12 or 13.

I can’t listen to a lot of it now. I was so emotional and serious! But at the same time, I’m able to appreciate where I was at that time, and some of those songs that I wrote at age 16 or 17, I still play. A lot of time a song evolves. They meant one thing at the time that I needed them to mean, and now they mean something completely different to me. I think they’re all relatable.

So you try to balance the specific and the more vague aspects of your writing?

Yeah, absolutely. When you listen to music that you love, you relate it back to yourself. It becomes something special to the person listening. It becomes their own.

How do you know when to make that distinction?

Sometimes it’s a fine line. You don’t want to sound too whiny about things that have hurt you in the past, so you maybe try to find another way to say them.

Do you think your best songs tend to come from happiness or sadness?

Usually a bad emotional place.

Why do you think that is?

Those emotions are so real. They’re so heavy. When you’re in a dark place or a bad place, all you can really think about is that hurt.

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Does performing those songs take you back to that place emotionally?

I definitely tap into the emotion of the song when I perform. I’ve had times where I’ve almost cried during a song because of what it means to me.

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What’s the difference between Darby Wilcox onstage and offstage?

As far as personality, I am who I am, all the time. I don’t want to be somebody else.

It makes me feel uncomfortable and weird if I try to. I’m not a good liar.

You’re working on a studio album right now, correct?

I’m working on finally getting something out. I’ve wanted to get an album out for a long time, and I’m really grateful to have people like (guitarist) J. Michael King in my life, to motivate me. And I’ve got some really talented and amazing friends who are going to be playing on it. We’ve got a couple of songs recorded now, and I might do a sneak preview online.

Does it surprise you what songs of yours people latch onto?

Sometimes I’m surprised by the ones people like. And I really appreciate that. Everything has a purpose in life, and I’m glad when that happens. I’m amazed and humbled when that happens, actually, because I really write for myself.

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The Spartanburg Little Theatre’s Next Stages and HUB-BUB team up for the brand-new holiday comedy “Every Christmas Story Every Told” on Dec. 7-8 and Dec. 13-15 at 8 p.m. at The Showroom at HUB-BUB. Featuring Spartanburg actors Paul Board, Jay Coffman and Lee Neibert, this fast-paced, slapstick production is the perfect addition to the standard holiday fare. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door and are available at 864-582-0056, online at www.hub-bub.com or at 149 S. Daniel Morgan Ave., Spartanburg. This production is rated PG-13.

The Blood Connection will showcase artwork by Fred and Kathy Wood until Feb. 15 at its Woodruff Road Donation Center location. There will be an artists’ reception on Dec. 7 from 5:30-7 p.m. For more information, visit www.thebloodconnection.org/ about-us.

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The SC Children’s Theatre has added two performances to its schedule for “Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells.”

The production runs through Dec. 16 and new performances were added on Dec. 14 and 15. For more information, visit www.scchildrenstheatre.org.

and Distracted Globe’s improv comedy. Improv tickets are $5 and attendees are encouraged to bring a gift for Harvest Hope Food Bank. For more information, call 864-235-6948.

The Greenville Concert Band presents Christmas at White Oak, a selection of music for the Christmas season on Dec. 16 at 7 p.m. at White Oak Baptist Church, 1805 Wade Hampton Blvd., Greenville. Admission is free. Contact George Ducker at 864-3138540 for more information.

Ballet Spartanburg presents its annual production of the classic ballet “The Nutcracker” in Twichell Auditorium at Converse College on Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 8-9 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $20-$32. For more information, call 596-9725 or 583-0339, or visit www.converse.edu/arts/twichell-auditorium.

The Clemson University Singers present a Candlelight Christmas Concert at 7 p.m. on Dec. 9 at Clemson First Baptist Church. The concert is free. For information, call the Brooks Center box office at 864-656-7787, Monday-Friday, 1-5 p.m.

The Bohemian Cafe at 2B West Stone Avenue in Greenville presents Larry Hoskinson’s tribute to John Lennon on Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. Admission to the show is free and there will be a special menu.

For more information call 864-233-0006 or 864232-8444.

The Spartanburg School District One Middle School Combined Chorus presents a holiday concert for Senior Adults on Dec. 7 at 11 a.m. This program will feature chorus students from Landrum Middle School, Mabry Middle School and Campobello Gramling School. Admission is free, but reservations are required by Peace calling Ava Gunter Hughes at 864Center Theatre 278-9693.

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Carolina Vocal Palace in Boiling Springs For tickets call presents its annual Holiday Concert on Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. Admission is $5 at the door. For more information, call 542-2787. scchildrenstheatre.org

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Riverworks Gallery, located at 300 River St., Suite 202 in Greenville, presents its Fourth Annual Holiday Student Art Sale Dec. 7-16. There will be an artist reception on Dec. 7, 6-9 p.m. The gallery will showcase works from students, faculty and alumni of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Greenville Technical College. For more information, call 864 271-0679 or visit www.gvltec.edu/vpa.

Peace Center From the Gunter CivilTheatre War to presNov. 30-Dec. 16 3,500 peoent day, fewer than ticketsbeen call ple haveForever awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

864-467-3000 scchildrenstheatre.org Charles P. Murray Jr., a South Carolinian, will have his World War II experience documented in “Man and Moment: Charles Murray, Defining a Hero” to be broadcast on Dec. 13 at 8 Murray p.m. on SCETV. Col. Murray was a young commanding officer near Kaysersberg, France on Dec. 16, 1944, when he used grenades and an automatic rifle to confuse and completely disorganize a force of 200 German soldiers.

The Warehouse Theatre presents the “Seventh Annual Non-Denominational, Politically Correct, Winter Holiday Extravaganza” on Dec. 14-15 at 10:45 p.m. following the performances of “Season’s Greetings/Santaland Diaries.” The show will feature a new short film, a musical treat from Pride of Greenville Men’s Chorus

Scott Fowler, an awardwinning sports columnist for the Charlotte Observer, will be signing his young adult fiction adventure, “Lost on the Road to Nowhere,” Dec. 15, 1-3 p.m., at Hub City Bookshop in downtown Spartanburg. Fowler grew up in Spartanburg and graduated from Dorman High School.

For more information, visit www.hubcity.org/bookshop.

Carolina Foothills Artisan Center in Chesnee will host a Children’s Holiday Workshop Dec. 15, 10-11:30 a.m.

Children ages 6-11 are invited to make their own gingerbread houses. The cost to attend is $3. Reservations are required and seating is limited. For more information, call 864-461-3050.

The Spartanburg Community Band will present A Yuletide Celebration with the Morningside Baptist Church Handbells on Dec. 16, 3 p.m. at the Chapman Cultural Center. Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for children. To purchase tickets, call 864-542-2787 or visit www.chapmanculturalcenter.org.

The Cantus Chamber and Governor’s School Choirs from the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities will perform a free concert at Buncombe Street United Methodist Church at 200 Buncombe Street, Greenville, on Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.scgsah.org or call 864282-3713.

Send us your arts announcement.

Email: arts@communityjournals.com

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The Warehouse Theatre The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t, The Santaland Diaries and Season’s Greetings Dec. 7-29 ~ 235-6948

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Dec. 7 – 13, 2012 SC Children’s Theatre Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells Through Dec. 16 ~ 467-3000 Centre Stage Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Radio Play Through Dec. 22 ~ 233-6733 Greenville County Museum of Art Works by Stephen Scott Young & Works by Bryan Collier & David Drake: Potter and Poet of Edgefield Through Dec. 30 ~ 271-7570 Studio 220 at the Hyatt Regency Works by Carole Tinsley Through Dec. 30 ~ 248-1568 Metro. Arts Council at Centre Stage Works by Linda Q. Furman Through Jan. 13 ~ 233-6733

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extensively in both the public and private sectors with her real estate career beginning in 2000. Pam has served as the Broker-In-Charge of CTP Realty Associates and as Sales and Marketing Director of The Tutman Group, a custom home builder located in Greenville. Most recently she has served as the Director of Operations for Linda McDouglad Design/ Postcard From Paris Home in Greenville’s Historic West End. Pam Childress “We are excited to have Pam join the Pelham Road Office,” said John Moore, Broker-in-Charge. “She is a welcome addition to the Spaulding Group.”

Childress currently resides in Simpsonville with her husband, Ron and their two children. In her free time, she enjoys playing golf and tennis.

Cottingham Joins Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co., REALTORS® Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co., REALTORS® is pleased to announce that Sarah Logan Cottingham has joined the company and serves as a sales associate at the Pleasantburg office.

A Greenville native, Cottingham graduated from Greenville High School. She earned her degree from Wofford College in Spartanburg with a major in German and English. During her undergraduate work, Logan studied in London and Berlin.

We are thrilled to have Logan join C. Dan Joyner Company,” said Teresa Cox, Broker-in-Charge. “We welcome her to our family of Realtors.”

During her free time, Cottingham enjoys culture, traveling and languages, art history, and outdoor sports. She is looking forward to contributing to the growth and development of the Greater Greenville area.

Greer: Linda Wood, Alicia Waynick, Hilary Hurst Seneca: Pat Loftis, Jere duBois, Dottie Shuman Spartanburg: Lori Thompson, Annette Starnes, Wilma Dearybury Top listing agents in each office are recognized for listing the highest total volume of residential properties last month and include: Easley: Susan McCoy, Kathy Gallamore, Tom House Greenville: Sharon Wilson, Kathy Harris, Mary Jane Freeman Greer: Shelbie Dunn, Faith Ross, David Glenn

N e i g h b o r h o o d In f o 12 Month Average Home Price: $233,876 Amenities: Basketball Court, Playground, Swimming Pool, Walking Trails Rudolph Gordon Elementary Riverside Middle School Mauldin High School

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easy. The whole family will enjoy the playground, swimming pool, walking trails and basketball court.

Creekwood offers a great variety of floor plans from seven of McCar’s Home Collections, so everyone will find a plan to meet their needs.

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SAVANNAH POINTE $166,000 THE HEIGHTS $162,680 EASTCREEK $159,000 BROOKSIDE $158,000 SHADOW CREEK $157,133 $157,095 FOX TRACE $157,000 LISMORE PARK $156,000 SHELBURNE FARMS $155,871 SHADOW CREEK

$155,000 HERITAGE HILL $155,000 GLENDALE $153,500 $153,000 KELSEY GLEN $149,900 GRANITE WOODS SOUTH OLD MILL ESTATES $149,900 FAIRVIEW CHASE $146,375 AUTUMN WOODS $145,000 WINDSOR FOREST II $144,900

$144,800 HUNTERS VALLEY $139,500 $139,496 KALEDON ACRES $135,300 RIVER RIDGE SADDLER’S RIDGE $135,000 $135,000 SWANSGATE HERITAGE PARK $133,400 ANNACEY PARK $130,000 $129,000

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DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS IS 3:00 PM, E.S.T, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2013.

2013 MEETING DATES FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY COUNCIL All Regular meetings begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at County Square 301 University Ridge, Greenville January 15 February 5 & 19

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that TD’s Express Mart, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and OFF premises consumption of BEER AND WINE at 1035 W. Blue Ridge Drive, Greenville, SC 29609. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than December 23, 2012. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214; or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Azetca Downtown, LLC, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE AND LIQUOR at 109 NORTH MAIN STREET, GREENVILLE, SC 29601. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than December 23, 2012.

For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214; or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that TSD Social Club, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and ON premises consumption of BEER, WINE AND LIQUOR at 1117, 1119 & 1121 Cedar Lane, Greenville, SC 29609. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than December 9, 2012. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214; or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Walmart Market #4145, intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale and OFF premises consumption of BEER AND WINE at 805 W. Wade Hampton Blvd., Suite B, Greer, SC 29650. To object to the issuance of this license/permit, written protest must be received by the S.C. Department of Revenue no later than December 16, 2012. For a protest to be valid, it must be in writing, and should include the following information: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the person filing the protest; (2) the specific reasons why the application should be denied; (3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the applicant); (4) that the person protesting resides in the county where the proposed place of business is located or within five miles of the business; and, (5) the name of the applicant and the address of the premises to be licensed. Protest must be mailed to: S.C. Department of Revenue, ATTN: ABL, P. O. Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214; or faxed to: (803) 896-0110

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A large crowd was on hand for the 27th Annual Toy Run in Greenville.

The Western Carolinas Section of the American Chemical Society (WCACS) recently announced the winners of the 2012 Illustrated Poem Contest, based on the theme “Nanotechnology: The Smallest BIG Idea in Science.”

The competition is part of National Chemistry Week. In the kindergarten-second grade category, Emma Turgeon and Madden Alpaugh of Stone Academy won first and second place, respectively. In the third-fifth grade category, Sophie Young and Prema Van Deren, also of Stone Academy, won first and second place, respectively.

The first-place winners’ poetry will advance to the national American Chemical Society competition level.

From left, Madden Alpaugh, Emma Turgeon, Prema Van Deren, Sophie Young, and John Kaup of WCACS, who presented their awards and checks of $20 and $40.

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The Greenville County Youth Orchestra’s Sinfonia recently performed an educational outreach program at the Kroc Center for participants in the Boys and Girls Club.

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the week in photos

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The fifth-grade Student Council at Duncan Chapel Elementary helped with the Salvation Army’s “Kans for Kids” program for local families in need. The Student Council representatives made posters to hang around the school and helped motivate students to bring in canned food items by performing skits on the school’s daily news program. Duncan Chapel collected enough cans to fill up two 55-gallon drums.

On Nov. 16, Spartanburg Day School Middle School students spent the day giving back to others in the community. About 120 students began their day listening to guest speakers Lindsay Champion Moore and Leah Lamotey-Nakon on the importance of service. SDS students provided Mobile Meals, GOLS, SPACE, Ellen Hines Smith Girls’ Home, Total Ministries, Skylyn Place, SDS Garden, Arcadia Elementary, and the Meeting Street Academy with their time and hard work. The day of service was part of the humanities program.

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Sudoku puzzle: page 54

The YMCA of Greenville honored veterans and local Wounded Warriors at the Caine Halter Family Y at its annual Wounded Warrior Thanksgiving banquet.

Cascades Verdae, a retirement community in Greenville, held their First Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony. The community spent the day decking the halls, then lit up the clubhouse with a performance by the Cascades Chorus and lighting of the great lawn tree.

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Last week, St. Anthony’s students in grades three through six kicked off an arts and social studies infusion project underwritten with grants from the Metropolitan Arts Council, the NAESP and Crayola. It will focus on history and social studies through storytelling, poetry, music, illustration and dance. The project began with a storytelling and journaling exercise with published writer and poet Eli Connaughton. Each of the children received a journal that they can use throughout the year for assignments and for personal writing.

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As part of their classroom studies on animals, St. Anthony’s second-graders took a field trip to the Greenville Zoo to take the Animal Kingdom class. The class focused on the classification and characteristics of vertebrates and invertebrates.

The students were excited to be able to see live animals while learning about them.

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In and out

By Tom Heilman

Coffee with Artists… Every Thursday at 10 a.m. have free coffee and meet local artists at Carolina Foothills Artisan Center in Chesnee.

Holiday Art Spree… Do your Christmas shopping at Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg Gallery at the Chapman Cultural Center, MonSat, 10-5 and Sun, 1-5. All locally made.

Dioramas… James Buchanan made a series of Dioramas that told the ’Twas the Night Before Christmas story in miniature boxes. See them at Spartanburg Regional History Museum Tues-Sat, 10-5 and Sun, 1-5.

Art Exhibit: Blackwell… Tarleton Blackwell is a living South Carolina artist with a collage of images that depict The South, the state, and his unique state of mind. In Spartanburg Art Museum, Tues-Sat, 10-5 and Sun, 1-5.

Art Exhibit: Harrison… Jim Harrison is known for his old barns and Coca-Cola signs. See them and much more at Spartanburg Art Museum, Tue-Sat, 10-5 and Sun, 1-5.

Art Exhibit: Students… Students from local private schools and the COLORS program now have work hanging at the Chapman Cultural Center. Free. Mon-Sat, 10-5 and Sun, 1-5.

Ballet… Ballet Spartanburg presents the Christmas classic The Nutcracker in Twichell Auditorium at Converse College, Dec. 7, 8, and 9.

Every Xmas… Spartanburg Little Theatre presents this madcap romp of Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!) in The Showroom at Hub-Bub, Dec. 7, 8, 13, 14 and 15.

A Slave’s Story… Omar Ibn Said was an educated and cultured Muslim West African when he was captured and sold into slavery in America. Learn about his story from his hand, Fri, Dec 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the David Reid Theatre at the Chapman Cultural Center.

Presented by Spartanburg Regional History Museum. $10.

Christmas Concert… Get in the spirit of the season with a classic Christmas concert— Songs of the Season—by students from Spartanburg School District 1, Fri, Dec. 7, at 11 a.m. in the David Reid theatre at Chapman Cultural Center. Free, but reservations required: 278-9693.

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Across 1 Inn option 7 Assigned in spades 14 Sources of some stadium images 20 Spanish novelist Blasco __ 21 Monster with both a lion’s and a goat’s head 22 Piano brand 23 Wolfing down burgers and fries while driving?

25 Like corn in the kettle 26 Tibetan priest 27 Rough talk 28 Meryl Streep’s alma mater 30 Pasture parent 31 Depilatory cream 33 Plus-size supermodel 36 Suffix meaning “living substance” 38 Rocky road from fad to fashion?

45 “Speed-the-Plow” playwright 46 Many millennia 47 Kind of bran 48 Port of Yemen 49 “__ Wiedersehen” 50 Personnel list 53 Whomp relative 55 To-do list item 57 Solidarity among commoners?

62 Vents frustration toward 63 Offscreen friend in “Ernest” films

64 Professor ‘iggins 65 On the safer side 66 Former Indy champ Bobby 68 Kid’s comeback 70 Jefferson Davis’s sch.

74 Brief court plea 75 Actor whose voice is emulated by Snagglepuss the Lion 77 Put to shame 79 Reenactment of a memorable scene from “The Exorcist”?

83 “Reservoir Dogs” actor 85 Polar sheet 86 Radio host John 87 Ironically, he composed the “Microsoft sound” on a Mac 88 Drying oven 89 Actor Daniel __ Kim 90 Utterly 93 Washing station 95 “Dismount” or “settle”?

101 Sipped uncertainly 102 Contrary current 103 __ cava 104 Gone by 106 Ripped off 109 City near Anaheim 111 Daughter of Darth 115 What opinions often do 117 Food-fight evidence at the picnic?

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122 Sing unlike Bing 123 Golf shoe brand 124 Shifty sort 125 Blows up 126 Hinge (on) Down 1 Iranian currency 2 “Dancing Queen” band 3 Respectful address 4 Not as slow as adagio 5 Lawn beads 6 Hank who voices some “Simpsons” characters 7 Chance-of-rain nos.

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10 Leggy runner 11 John who loved Colorado 12 Ocean predator 13 Offhand turndowns 14 To a large degree 15 Actress Linney et al.

16 Online exchanges, briefly 17 Memorable Eastwood line 18 “Close call!”

19 “Marat/__”: 1963 play 24 Tale 29 Tie concern 32 Team moving to the American League in 2013 34 McKinley, e.g.: Abbr.

35 Learn all aspects of 37 Packer with a strong arm

38 Relating to regional animal life 39 “Don’t worry about me” 40 Unheeding 41 Performing trip 42 Get down?

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55 Dresses 56 Sign of hope 58 Riesling giant Chateau __ Michelle 59 FDR project 60 “__, we won’t go!”: ‘60s antiwar chant 61 Like some nuts 67 To what length 69 Woofer’s sound 70 Work the aisles, in slang 71 “Oh, come on!”

72 Avoid waffling 73 Accompaniment 74 Marlins’ div.

76 Ancient 78 Cinder receptacle 79 Issues requiring attention 80 Absolute 81 Quebec’s __’Orleans 82 Chiwere speaker 83 “Rock and Roll, Hoochie __”: 1974 hit 84 Clean off plates?

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112 Berlin article 113 Participation declaration 114 Preschool song opener 116 Short-lived diet, perhaps 118 Sm. change 119 Land div. by the 38th parallel 120 Absorbed, as a cost

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Past and present with courtney tollison Hartness, ph.d.

Joel Poinsett’s seeds of statesmanship Next week, on Wednesday, Dec. 12, Americans will celebrate National Poinsettia Day. This annual recognition isn’t well known, although those vibrant red plants upon which this holiday is based and the person for whom the plant is named have roots in South Carolina history.

The plant initially came to the U.S. from Mexico nearly 200 years ago, when South Carolinian Joel Roberts Poinsett distributed the cuttings he obtained during his service as our nation’s first Minister to Mexico.

Poinsett has a strong presence locally.

We have honored him with a highway, bridge, hotel, dining club, and statue on Main Street. Who was he?

Joel Poinsett was born in Charleston in the midst of the American Revolution, but was educated primarily in England. He studied medicine, military strategy and the law. When his father allegedly dissuaded him from joining the Army, young Poinsett proposed that he travel across Europe, an alternative his father supported. For the majority of the next nine years, Poinsett traveled Europe, North America and Canada, visiting notables such as Jacques Necker, former finance minister to Louis XVI of France; Robert Livingston, U.S. Minister to France and negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase; the royal family of Prussia; and Czar Alexander I and his family in Russia.

Poinsett returned to Charleston, but his stay was brief, as President James Madison asked him, on the eve of the War of 1812, to visit South America to learn if countries in rebellion from Spain may be ripe for treaties with the U.S. Poinsett spent the next five years in South America, and

soon after his return home, was elected to the S.C. House of Representatives after friends nominated him. News of his first political victory reached him while he was travelling through Greenville.

In his capacity as a state representative, Poinsett became particularly interested in infrastructural development.

His efforts to improve transportation effectively promoted trade from the coast throughout the state. During this time, Poinsett also began a near-lifelong tradition of hosting Sunday morning breakfasts with Charleston’s intellectual and cultural elite and distinguished visitors, such as his friend the Marquis de Lafayette. These breakfasts became a staple of Charleston’s elite social scene.

After his second term in the State House, Poinsett ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served from 1820 to 1825. During his third term, he resigned his seat to become the first U.S. Minister to Mexico. Poinsett’s time in Mexico was tumultuous, complicated in part by U.S. ambitions regarding the acquisition of Texas. Poinsett offered the Mexican government five million dollars for Texas, but Mexico did not accept.

In Mexico, Poinsett was intrigued by a vibrant red shrub referred to as Flor de Noche Buena (Christmas Eve Flower). He sent friends cuttings from the plant, one of which eventually reached staff at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. During his lifetime, the plant became known as the Poinsettia, and in the decades after the Civil War, the plant’s bright red leaves became associated with the holiday season.

Today, the Poinsettia is the best-selling

potted plant in the U.S. and Canada, with sales of Poinsettias contributing $ 250 million to the U.S. retail industry annually.

Like many politicians of this era, Poinsett was swept into the divisive politics that eventually led to the Civil War. He returned to the S.C. State House in 1830 and served as the recognized leader amongst those who opposed the nullification of federal legislation that many Southerners deemed financially punitive to Southern agriculture. Before the end of that decade, however, Poinsett once again resigned to serve the president, this time as secretary of war under President Martin van Buren.

In this role, Poinsett developed West Point into one of the finest educational institutions in the country.

In his role as secretary of war, Poinsett pioneered the development of the National Institution for the Promotion of Science. His vision was prompted by a substantial bequest from James Smithson, the illegitimate son of a British Lord who felt snubbed by the aristocracy and thus vowed to establish in America (a country that had successfully fought two wars against England) an institution that would outlast the aristocrats who had spurned him. Poinsett remained at the forefront of discussions that led to the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution, and engaged fellow South Carolinian Robert Mills, a man considered America’s first architect, to develop a layout for what became the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Through his decades-long relationship with Mills, Poinsett’s legacy is in part architectural as well. During Poinsett’s tenure, Mills designed the campus of the

University of South Carolina, jails and courthouses (including one in Greenville), the Fireproof Building in Charleston, and is believed to have designed the bridge in Greenville now named for Joel Poinsett. Later, while Poinsett was Secretary of War, he selected Mills to design a library and observatory at West Point.

During the 1830s and throughout the 1840s, Poinsett spent summers at The Homestead, his home outside of Greenville, joining the wave of the well-to-do who travelled from the Lowcountry to what became known in contrast as the Upcountry. In 1851, after months of failing health, Poinsett embarked on a trip from his home in the Lowcountry to The Homestead; he never reached his destination. Falling ill near Stateburg, he died and was buried in the Episcopal Church’s cemetery there. His marker does not mention his national prominence, his laudable positions in our government, his role in establishing the Smithsonian Institution, his influence on architecture, or his relationship to the plant most closely associated with the holidays.

Instead, it reads, “A pure patriot, an honest man, and a good Christian.”

On Poinsettia Day next week and throughout the holiday season, our nation’s much-loved and ever-present plant serves as a beautiful reminder of our native statesman, a man who fertilized some of our nation’s most significant educational, cultural, and military institutions, in whom this state can take much pride.

Dr. Courtney Tollison Hartness is an assistant professor of history at Furman and museum historian at the Upcountry History Museum.

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