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A plate with a history, and a future Sixty years ago when Montgomery-Crawford employees passed out decorative Spartanburg plates to the company’s customers I doubt they ever considered the gift would be anything more than a possible way to boost sales. But people who’ve discovered them or the ones on the hunt for one know the plates are much more. These 10 ¼- inchplates have become prized collectors’ pieces for people who love Spartanburg memorabilia. But easily finding the cream-colored plates painted designs is another matter. We have a blue one that came with things from my mother-in-law’s house after her passing in 1996. She received the plate from a relative who worked in the sales department at Montgomery-Crawford. The printing on the back of the plate refers to Spartanburg as the “Hub City of the Southeast.” Vernon Kilns, the maker of the plates, fired the designs and inscriptions in green, pink, burgundy and brown for cities and states all over the country. The company has continued to make the plates but it’s the original ones that are the most cherished. Seven Spartanburg sites and institutions are featured on the plate: Old Main at Wofford College, Walker Hall at Converse, General Morgan’s statue, peach orchards, hydro-electric power dams and the World War II Camp Croft Military Training Center, the one that dates the period of the original release more than any of the others. My sister Myra Horn, a Winthrop graduate and her husband John, a Wofford alum, who live in Fort Smith, Ark., are pretty keen on anything with Spartanburg, or South Carolina connections because they are reminders of home. Myra has one each of the plates that were also used as giveaways in the cities of Greenville,
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carolina journal by gary henderson Charleston and Columbia; all found in antique shops or thrift stores, but a Spartanburg plate eluded her years of searching. About eight years ago, my wife purchased a Spartanburg plate we found in South Pine Street Antique Mall, packaged it up and mailed it to Myra in time to be opened on Christmas morning. Though the package had not a scratch on it, when my sister opened it and pulled back the wrappings the plate was a mass of broken pieces. “I cried,” she said on the phone later that morning. So did we, and since that Christmas morning, Bob at the antique mall has been on the prowl for another one of the plates. Every time I’ve seen him since then he always says something like, “I’ve not forgotten, I’m still looking for your sister’s plate.” While Bob’s scoured his sources, we’ve prowled garage sales, especially garage sales, Goodwill and other thrift stores, with no luck. Initially, we even considered giving Myra ours, but that feeling passed pretty quickly. Though, I’ve seen her longingly admiring it when she and John came for visits. After the fruitlessness of our search we were beginning to believe we’d never be able to replace the broken one. So I was surprised recently when my friend Don Bramlett, a Spartanburg electrician, approached me during lunch one day at the Converse Deli to say he had something he wanted to give me. “I’ll be right back,” Don said. “It’s in my truck.” Meantime, given Don’s occupation, I was wondering if his gift was something that would need electricity to operate. Two minutes later, Don walked back to
my table on the patio, said “Look at this,” and laid a Spartanburg MontgomeryCrawford plate fired in the 1940s on the table. I stopped him when Don started telling me the story about the plates and told about the blue trimmed one on a whatnot shelf at our house.
Don went on to say he and his wife Mott had found two of the plates in Mott’s mother’s house when they were clearing out things after the older woman’s passing. “I know how you like Spartanburg history,” Don said. “We want you to have it.” Then, I told Don about our long search to replace the plate that was delivered to her in pieces. “Then, this one is your sister’s,” he said. “Tell her I said to enjoy it.” My plans to keep the plate a secret until it was time to exchange holiday gifts didn’t hold. Later that afternoon I called my sister and told her the news. Myra’s response started with a squeal and ended with a high-pitched, “Are you serious”? “Don’t mail it,” she said rather forcefully. “I’ll come get it.” Now, Myra’s telephone-call inquiries of “How’s my plate”? are just as likely as “How are you”? when I call. C o n tact Gary He n de rso n at 5 4 2 -5 4 4 3 o r at wgaryh @ gmai l .co m.
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Reading here More great news comes from downtown Spartanburg with the opening of The Coffee Bar and Cakehead Bakery in the Masonic Temple next to Hub City Bookshop. It fills the void left by the closing of the Sandwich Factory, the place where folks went for some coffee and conversation each day. Among those folks were the very people who dreamed of Hub City Writers Project so many years ago. Fifteen years ago last May to be exact. The Sandwich Factory served as ground zero for the creation of what would eventually be Hub City and its ancillary functions – to serve writers, to publish books and, now to sell books in a non-profit venue. Founders Betsy Teter, John Lane and Gary Henderson were such regulars there they had their own cups set aside for their morning sessions. That’s the beauty of such an establishment and what it can mean to the people of the city. It moves beyond being a place to serve food to a place that offers patrons a place to dream. Little River Roasting Co, which has been in Spartanburg since 2002, will brew the coffee. Cakehead will supply muffins, scones and desserts. “It’s like a perfect marriage. The three just go together,” Liz Blanchard, Cakehead’s owner, told the Spartanburg Journal’s Cindy Landrum. The bookshop opened in July after a $250,000 renovation of the Masonic Temple, all paid for with donations plus $21,000 from the city and a loan of $10,000 from the City of Spartanburg Development Corp. Volunteers staff the bookstore, allowing the proceeds from sales to help pay for writing workshops and local and regional book publishing. Hub City Press’ offices are in the back of the bookstore. The Press releases as many as seven books a year. And in the 15 years since that little idea sprouted from that downtown coffee shop 70,000 books have been sold and 300 writers have become published authors. Now, the same sort of place is back. Folks can get a book from Hub City Bookshop and wander over to The Coffee Bar for coffee (and pastry) then book, sit at the sidewalk tables, be transported to another place, another time. Or they can meet with colleagues and friends to dream about the next great idea for our city. Spartanburg will be a better place because of it. And the Masons are still around – meeting on the second floor. In My Own Words features essays by residents with particular expertise who want to tell readers about issues important to them. To write a column – or to suggest someone else – please contact Lyn Riddle at 679-1250 or lriddle@thespartanburgjournal.com. 6 s p a r t a n b u r g J o u r n a l | AUGUST 20, 2010
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The Piedmont Chapter needs a youth volunteer coordinator (five to eight hours a week), an Armed Forces Case Worker, volunteers for the Community Education Speaker’s Bureau, Health or Information Fairs, Disaster Services, Administrative Support, Hospital Volunteers, Special Events Volunteers, and First Aid/CPR Instructors. Contact Linda Burns and Casey Sanders at 583-8000 for more details. Animal Allies
Volunteers needed in the clinic and to help with community awareness efforts. SPARTANBURG HOTLINE: 864.576.6971. Bethlehem Center
The Bethlehem Center needs volunteers for Boy and Girl Scouting programs, academic tutors for adults and children, coaches for sports, senior programming, professional services (i.e. legal, printing, artistic), repairs and building maintenance, board membership and fundraising Boys and Girls Club of Metro Spartanburg
Office or homework helpers. Call 864583-4867x114 for more info, or email Jennifer Bauer at jennifer@bgcms.org. Habitat for Humanity of Spartanburg, Inc.
Needs volunteers for home construction and to work in ReStore. Contact the volunteer coordinator 591-2221 ext. 105 or volunteer@shabitat.org. Hatcher Garden and Woodland Preserve
Volunteer Days on select Saturdays and every Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon. Also need volunteers to help writing articles or editing the newsletter, helping to coordinate special events at the Garden, fundraising, preparing direct mailings and other office work.
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Contact Janie Brown at 573-3921. Mobile Meals Service of Spartanburg
Mobile Meals delivers 2,000 meals every week day to the homebound of Spartanburg County. At least 150 volunteers are needed each day. National Kidney Foundation of SC
Looking for vehicles to be donated to the National Kidney Foundation of SC Kidney Cars Program. Funds raised support programs and services. CAll 800-488-2277 for more info. Piedmont Blood Center
Every day blood is needed in hospitals and emergency treatment facilities for patients with cancer and other diseases, for organ transplant recipients, and to save the lives of accident victims. Safe Homes - Rape Crisis Coalition
Safe Home - Rape Crisis serves Spartanburg, Cherokee, and Union Counties, offers training for volunteers to assist with their 24-hour crisis line during weekends, evenings and holiday. Training is provided free by community agencies. Call 583-9803 or 800-273-5066. Southern Care Hospice
Southern Care Hospice needs volunteers. Call 877-486-6721. Southside Unity in the Community
Southside Unity in the Community is dedicated to promoting volunteerism within the Southside community. The program intends to make available in one central location resources, training, and opportunities that will encourage volunteerism. Call 621-7209 for more information. To se arch f o r a spe ci f i c vo l u n te e r opportunity to match your skills go to www.vo l u n te e rmatch .o rg.
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What’s next for downtown’s airport BY CHARLES SOWELL | STAFF
A $2.5 MILLION RENOVATION
and upgrade project at the Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport is the first phase of a project that would see the facility increase its economic impact on the area from $10 million to more than $30 million. “It’s the kind of thing that is going to require long-term commitment from the city,” said Dick Lewis, director of aviation for the Concord (N.C.) Regional Airport, a city-run facility located on the outskirts of Charlotte. The Concord airport reports a $110 million economic impact locally, Lewis said. Spartanburg actually has more take offs and landings than Concord (69,000 for Spartanburg and 54,000 for Concord in 2009). The difference in economic impact lies in what is done along the edges of the runways in providing service to planes and in things like hangar rental. Spartanburg is in for the long haul, said Ed Memmott, city manager. The city has helped the airport secure a loan of about $4 million to help pay for improvements and start developing the 544-acre property. The loan is to be repaid through rental payments on t-hangars, said Darwin Simpson, airport director. T-hangars are named because of their interior capital “T” shape which is designed to fit a small airplane. There is a 66 plane waiting list for hangar space right now and as more facilities are built Simpson expects to see demand mushroom. Other improvements could be funded in a similar manner as the airport’s future unfolds. Simpson sees the airport as under utilized. “Essentially all that was done out here for years was cut the grass,” he said. It is Spartanburg’s largest single property and the prospects of more hangar rows and aviation-related industry lining the periphery, excites Simpson, a retired South Carolina Army National Guard major general and vice presi-
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dent of logistics for Van Waters & Rogers, Inc., of Spartanburg. Simpson is an airplane junkie who will take to the skies at the drop of a hat. He’s also a hard-headed businessman who sees no good reason Spartanburg’s airport cannot at least equal the economic impact of the Greenville Downtown Airport. Greenville Downtown has an aggregate economic impact of around $30 million a year, said Joe Frasher, airport director, and employs more than 400 people at the facility proper and with related companies on site. Spartanburg’s airport has eight employees and provides employment for fewer than 200, according to city figures. “Every airport is different,” Frasher said. “We are a special tax district and not run by the city. In Concord they are city run, but have the considerable advantage of NASCAR’s headquarters at the Lowe’s Motor Speedway being right next door.” Lewis said NASCAR has played a pivotal role in Concord’s meteoric rise. The airport was finished in the 1994, but the facility has other advantages B Y
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Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport 69,000 Number of flights in 2009 544 Acres on the airport property 66 Number of planes currently waiting for a hangar $10 MILLION Airport’s current local economic impact $2.5 MILLION Amount slated for airport renovation and upgrade project $30 MILLION Estimated local economic impact after renovation
like the ease of getting in and out of Charlotte that make it a major economic player in the metro area. Spartanburg’s modest first plans see airport’s terminal as the focus with observation decks, a history theme and children’s playground in addition to building new rental t-hangars. The terminal is an architectural gem and is steeped in aviation history, Simpson said. Spartanburg was the first operational airport in South Carolina and has played host to legends of the early days of flying like Charles Lindberg, Amelia Earhart and Eddie Rickenbacker. Robert Turner and Doris Bell were married at 5,000 feet over the Spartanburg tarmac in 1932 in what reportedly was first aerial wedding, Simpson said. Simpson intends to play on the history of the airport as a marketing tool to potential customers. He is in a unique position at the airport to know first when potential new businesses fly in to check out the city. He sees the refurbished terminal as Spartanburg’s aerial gateway to the city and he thinks many of his plans for the airport can be done for relatively little money since the Federal Aviation Administration will pay for things like water and sewer to serve the facility. There are advantages to being a wellrun general aviation airport and not a major facility like Charlotte-Douglas or Greenville Spartanburg Airport, Simpson, Lewis and Frasher agree. The big airports don’t want to deal with small aircraft, they said, since they are in the business of moving lots of people on commercial jets through as quickly as possible. But there is considerable business to be had in dealing with smaller aircraft, even in troubled economic times. Simpson would like to see Spartanburg cash in on that. Contact Charles Sowell at 679-1208 or csowell@thespartanburgjournal.com.
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The new nature trail at the Price House will be dedicated on Saturday, Aug. 28, at 10 a.m. Spartanburg native, Wofford College alumnus, and South Carolina Educational Television nature expert Rudy Mancke will lead a microtour at the nature trail site. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students ages 6 -17. Children under the age of 5 will be admitted free. For more information, contact Zac Cunningham, Price House director, at 576-6546 or by e-mail at pricehouse@spartanburghistory.org. Kristin Jackson, an A.C. Flora High School graduate set to attend Claflin University in the fall in pursuit of a pharmacy career, was named the first recipient of the McAlister Foundation Scholarship, a four year scholarship from the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind. Jackson The Ellen Hines Smith Girls Home is in need of back-to-school items. To see a complete list of what’s needed and to donate online, go to http://www.spgirlshome.com/donate.
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Earnest Nash could not have picked a more fitting name for his restaurant in Spartanburg. The Real Deal. It says right on the paper takeout menu that the restaurant, which is easy to miss in a nondescript strip shopping center on the Asheville Highway, is bringing a taste of Philly to South Carolina. Can you say Philly Cheese Steak? Nash has had the restaurant for 10 years now, but he had been bringing the sandwich the city is famous for to Spartanburg for a lot longer than that. When the former Philly resident used to come to visit his aunts, uncles and cousins, he’d bring sandwiches here on the train. Nash said he grew up in a Philly cheese steak shop in Philadelphia. The ingredients for the sandwiches he makes in Spartanburg are brought in from Philly and put together using a family recipe. One of the special ingredients is love, he said. “I just love what I do,” Nash said. And when he finds out it’s a person’s first visit to The Real Deal, he hangs out to see their reaction after the first bite. The Philly cheese steak comes in several varieties and Nash also serves hoagies. The hamburgers are named after Philadelphia streets. The onion rings are a must have, too. Although the restaurant serves authentic Philly cuisine, the menu has been adapted for the south. They serve sweet tea. — Cindy Landrum ordered the pepper cheese steak and onion rings, and ate every bite.
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L o o k w h o ’s i n t h e j o u r n a l Big Brother Big Sister of the Upstate handed out their Bigs of the Year awards at Barnet Park.
This year’s winners were Big Brother Jon Potter, Stephen McDonald, at left, Potter’s previous little brother, Darius Williams, at right, Jon’s current little brother. Pictured here is Big Sister Crystal Kersh, Beverly Griffin, parent, at left, and Destiny Griffith, Kersh’s little sister.
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Wofford is thinking big by Charles Sowell | Staff
Wofford’s pursuit of about
$28 million in bond funding to complete Phase V of the school’s ambitious renovation of student housing is one of the ways the small liberal arts school has to distinguish itself in the ever growing competition for students. But the real story at Wofford isn’t just written in brick and mortar, said Bob Keasler, vice president for operations and finance at the 1,450 student school. Wofford has been steadily working to secure a place for itself nationally in outside rankings like the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). Keasler said the school’s good showing with NSSE gives it an edge with prospective students. Wofford’s tuition is about $40,000. There are about 224 schools nationwide with tuition at that level, or lower, said Keasler. There are also 58 schools that have tuition of $50,000 or more. In the NSSE rating Wofford
School seeks new bond funding consistently ranks as high, or better, than the top 10 percent of participating schools – many of which carry hefty tuitions, too. “It’s a wonderful selling point for the school,” Keasler said. “We want our students to excel academically, but we want the college experience to be something special, too. We hope to do that by encouraging our seniors to remain on campus.” In the years since the Senior Village concept was started Keasler has seen changes in how students interact and how the seniors interact with their professors. “We see seniors inviting their professors to their (Senior Village) apartments for a meal now,” he said. “That didn’t used to happen. I think our students are quickly coming to think of their professors as friends and colleagues.
The final building in Wofford's senior housing complex will include a small grocery store.
“I’m also hearing underclassmen talking about what they plan to do when they get to the Senior Village.” It is a change in atmosphere that bodes well for the school, he said. Interviewed in his office at Snyder house, a 19th Century home that has been converted into office space for Keasler and other departments, he said the school is devoting a tremendous amount of resources to ensuring the student experience and apologized for having to turn off his noisy window air conditioner in order to be heard. “We put our money into the students and the student experience,” he said. The bond, along with private
donations and school funding, will pay for renovations at four dorms (DuPrè, Shipp, Marsh and Greene) that were last renovated in the 1980s and date from the 1960s. It will also pay for a new dormitory and parking improvements around the campus. “I’m not sure where all of the parking work will be done,” he said. “I am sure we want to do some form of permeable paving. I’ve been surprised at the cost of that kind of thing. You’d think it would be cheaper than conventional asphalt, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.” Contact Charles Sowell at 679-1208 or cso we l l @ th e spartan bu rgj o u rn al .co m.
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B u s i n e s s Deposed as chief executive officer and director of Denny’s after a decade at the helm, Nelson J. Marchioli is fighting back. Marchioli has forced Denny’s into arbitration in an attempt to gain $3.2 million in severance, and he has accused the board of illegally removing him as a director and of filing an inaccurate disclosure to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Marchioli, 61, of Greenville was forced out of the Spartanburg-headquartered company just weeks after dissident shareholders Marchioli failed to replace him, board chairman Debra Smithart-Oglesby and Robert Marks as directors. In bitter campaigning for shareholder votes, the dissidents accused Marchioli and the board of mismanagement, and the company vigorously praised their performance. Soon after the board won the fight as a vote of “support and confidence” by shareholders, Marchioli was dumped. When Marchioli was hired as CEO in 2001, Denny’s, then part of Advantica Restaurant Group, was in trouble, weighted down with debt, red ink, weak stores and a tarnished image from charges of discrimination against African-Americans in the 1990s. Under Marchioli’s watch, the company erased the last vestiges of minority discrimination, focused on building franchise ownership, closed underperforming stores and became profitable, although it has continued to lose market share to competitors such as Ihop. The company has yet to explain why Marchioli was removed as CEO. Under his employment agreement, the company is required to pay Marchioli severance unless he is ousted for cause, and there has been no such declaration. The company revealed in a financial overview that Marchioli has asked for arbitration to determine “any outstanding obligations related to his de-
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parture.” The company said “the arbitration could result in payments to our former CEO ranging from approximately $0.8 million to $3.2 million.” The $3.2 million is the company’s estimate of what Marchioli would be owed if he was fired without cause. The company’s $800,000 estimate is what the company recorded as an expense for “severance and other restructuring charges related to the resolution of this matter.” The proceedings, which are expected to take place next month in Charlotte, are to be before a single arbitrator under the rules of the American Arbitration Association. The company’s announcements on the changes in leadership have referred to Marchioli’s removal as incidental to his replacements and, except for the challenged rationale for removing him as a director, without elaboration. On June 8, Denny’s announced that Marchioli had been replaced, effective that date, on an interim basis by board chairman Debra SmithartOglesby. His ouster came less than three weeks after his employment contract automatically was to renew the day after the annual shareholder meeting May 19. On July 12, the board announced that Marchioli was “no longer an employee or officer of the company” as of June 30. Three days after that announcement, the board said he was removed as director. The board cited a board policy provision that “states that a change in the employment responsibilities . . . triggers an obligation to submit a
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resignation as a director to the board for its consideration.” Because he “did not tender his resignation,” the board said, it “took action to effectively remove Nelson Marchioli from his position as a director of the company effective June 30.” In a letter to the board dated July 19, Marchioli called his removal “nonsensical,” unlawful and a breach of fiduciary duty and said the explanation that the board made to the SEC “was likewise inaccurate.” He said under company bylaws he could only be removed for cause. “There was never cause for my removal; indeed, if there had been, applicable SEC rules required you to specify the cause, which you did not do.” Marchioli said the governance provision the board used was adopted to give the board an option to remove an outside director if a change in his/her business relations “in any way impact the director’s continued suitability to serve on the board.” In any case, he said, “It was never intended to allow the board to force someone from the company involuntarily and then use that involuntary change of status as a makeweight to circumvent the bylaws and a shareholder vote.” “I am the company’s largest individual stockholder and my interests are completely aligned with those of the public investors. I have 9 ½ years of history as the company’s CEO and many more in the industry. Nobody is more knowledgeable about the company,” he reminded the board. Since leaving the company, Marchioli has sold 261,775 of his Denny’s shares with a yield of $737,687. He still holds 3 million shares, most of which, according to the company’s proxy statement, are pledged as collateral on a private bank loan. In 2009, Marchioli received $2.1 million in total compensation.
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BY CHARLES SOWELL | STAFF
SPARTANBURG’S ARTS Partnership greatest successes have been built on individual donations, and Jennifer Evins, new director of development, sees her greatest challenge as continuing that relationship in tough economic times. “We realize that right now a lot of people can’t donate,” Evins said. “I understand that, but I also want the public to know that little donations add up.” The partnership has built great things with a small donor mindset, like the Chapman Cultural Center, a $47.5 million project that Evins lead the fund drive for as a volunteer while on the Arts Partnership board. Chapman’s philosophy of operation, like the Arts Partnership itself, is locally oriented and designed to draw in the community with visual arts, science and history exhibits and entertainment on a three building campus, Evins said. Exhibits are free to the public and there is a small charge for groups. There is also entertainment without the kind of ticket prices seen in larger cities. “We’re not the kind of large-venue facility that a Peace Center is,” Evins said. “I want to help educate potential donors on the value of these kinds of local programs for things like business recruitment.” One of the things Evins wants to accomplish as director of development is to re-engage the local business community. “I don’t want them to forget we’re here and I want to help them understand the value of the center and the programs we put on there.” A glance at the donor breakout for the partnership illustrates Evins’ point. Forty eight percent of the partnership’s funding comes in from individual donors; 25 percent comes from business and corporations; and 27 percent from foundations and other sources. Evins has been in Spartanburg for 22 years, first working in marketing for WSPA Channel 7 and then moving on to work as a volunteer with the arts partnership. She also briefly ran for
Evins brings plenty of fundraising skills to Arts Partnership mayor of Spartanburg last year. “I paid my filing fee and was actually a candidate for about 10 days, until Junie White decided to run,” Evins said. “I thought he’d be good for the city and I voluntarily withdrew from the race.” Evins’ education and training is in marketing and public relations. Her obvious success with the fund raising drive to build the Chapman center made her a natural choice as director of development, said Perry Mixter, president of the arts partnership.
“I want to help educate potential donors on the value of these kinds of local programs for things like business recruitment.” JENNIFER EVINS
“Jennifer played an essential role in the vision for and funding of the Chapman Cultural Center,” he said. “I can think of no more appropriate role for her to play now than to direct the fund raising efforts of this great facility and the organizations housed here.” Evins is a trustee with the Spartanburg County Foundation and an appointed member of the city public safety commission. In the past two years she played a crucial role in helping to raise $4 million to build at new Family YMCA on Pine Street. Contact Charles Sowell at 679-1208 or cso we l l @ th e spartan bu rgj o u rn al .co m.
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It seemed natural the first play Dawn Hilton-Williams wrote would have something to do with jazz. She loved the music and she was used to being around performers as a child. Her aunt had lived with Carmen McRae, the American jazz singer and actress, for a while and her grandmother knew Ella Fitzgerald. Her mother co-founded one of the first African-American theater troupes in North Carolina. “I had been watching these characters walk in and out of my life,” said Hilton-Williams. “Jazz and writing just matched.” Her play, “A Month of Sundays: Remembering Women in Jazz” will be at the Chapman Cultural Center for a three-day run beginning Aug. 27. Hilton-William’s lead character, Sandra Valentine, is a legend in the jazz world, the catalyst behind the careers of real-life jazz stars Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Fitzgerald, and the inspiration for the Apollo Theater’s famous amateur night talent contest which helped launch dozens more careers. “She is an elegant Southern woman with a piece in jazz history, the queen mother of jazz vocals,” said HiltonWilliams, who moved to Greenville from Charlotte last August with her husband, Anthony Williams, who played football at Wake Forest University. Sandra Valentine’s granddaughter, a real estate agent, is set to inherit
a considerable amount of valuable commercial property in a revitalized area of their metropolitan city. But conditions have to be met first. In order for the property to be titled free and clear, the property must be renovated and re-opened as a jazz club, called The Cellar, for a specified period of time. Throughout the play, music-filled memories share the stage with the present-day characters. With the music comes a floodgate of previously untold familial stories. “There is conflict, but it is not violent,” said Hilton-Williams of the play. “As an African-American woman, I desire to inspire young African-American children. We have to tell them a different story. What is wrong with telling a good story? What is wrong with a happy ending?” Hilton-Williams said being laid off in 2005 from her job as business planning manager for the city of Charlotte was the beginning of her happy ending. Up until then, she had been writing “on the side.” She decided to make writing and food – her two passions, the things she would do for free – her new fulltime job. “Food makes people happy. Music makes people happy. Good stories make people happy,” said HiltonWilliams. She launched a catering business and started writing “Month of Sundays.” “I took my 401-K savings and
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invested it in myself,” she said. In 2007, she entered the play in the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem and it was selected to be read at the Reader’s Theatre Series of new plays at the festival. “I was mortified,” she said, adding that hearing her play being read aloud revealed its shortcomings. But it was a confirmation she was on the right track. “Even if you’re 40-something or even 60-something, you still can fulfill your dream,” she said. “What did you want to be when you were a kid? That can still happen.” She got right to work and further developed the characters and the storyline. The play earned her a grant from the Arts & Science Council and was awarded honorable mention in the stage play script category of the 76th Annual Writer’s Digest
writing competition. Hilton-Williams decided she couldn’t wait around for somebody to decide to produce the play so she took on that endeavor herself. “I’m not a seller, but I’m passionate about what I’m selling,” she said. She’s teamed up with director Defoy Glenn, who revived the nonprofit GM Productions. It sold out its debut in Charlotte in March 2008 at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. Two months later, Hilton-Williams’ father died unexpectedly and she took a break for awhile. The Spartanburg run is the second of a planned six city tour which includes Durham, N.C., Charleston, Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C. at the Lincoln Theatre. For the Spartanburg show, HiltonWilliams is donating 100 tickets to the Boys and Girls Club and Spartanburg’s housing authority so children who could not afford tickets can attend. She’s also contributing a $500 scholarship to a student studying music, art or theater at one of Spartanburg’s colleges. After this show’s run, HiltonWilliams will begin working on staging her second play, “Seconds, Any One?” “Let’s dream a bit. Let’s over the rainbow it,” she said. “Dreams are your life. If you are not dreaming, you’re not living.” Contact Cindy Landrum at 679-1237 or clandrum@thespartanburgjournal.com.
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Coffee, and so much more by cindy landrum | Staff
Hub City Book Shop brings literary world together
Little River Roasting Co. has been in Spartanburg since 2002 but it wasn’t until the The Coffee Bar opened in the historic Masonic Temple downtown that the company had a retail presence. The Coffee Bar and Cakehead Bakery opened up shop in the building with the Hub City Bookshop. It brings together businesses that have been missing from downtown Spartanburg for years. “It’s like a perfect marriage,” said Liz Blanchard, Cakehead’s owner. “The three just go together.” The three West Main Street businesses will hold their grand opening and a street party on Friday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Six authors – Mindy Friddle, Melinda Long, Deno Trakas, Sheila Ingle, Rick Cooper and Robert Lange – will sign their books at the event. The event will also include music, beverages, children’s activities, cupcakes, coffee drinks and the creation of a “community poem” among other things.
Little River was founded in 1996 and moved to Spartanburg eight years ago by Gervais Hollowell. The company roasts coffee at its main location on Marion Street. It has been primarily a wholesale business, said Joey Geier, The Coffee Bar’s manager. “People in Spartanburg have wanted a place downtown to meet and sit with a good conversation and a good cup of coffee,” said Geier of the full-service coffee shop. Cakehead, located within The Coffee Bar, is a bakery specializing in cakes, cupcakes, fried pies, cookies and brownies. The business will supply muffins, scones and desserts for the coffee shop. Two former offices in the Masonic Temple have been renovated into a kitchen where Blanchard will take orders for sweets catering.
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Hub City Bookshop opened in July. It is a nonprofit independent bookstore operated by the Hub City Writers Project. All of the proceeds from book sales at the store, which specializes in new releases, children’s books and regional titles, fund creative writing education and locally based literary and cultural book publishing. Hub City Press, which moved its offices to the back of the bookstore, publishes five to seven regional books each year. The $250,000 renovation of the Masonic Temple was funded by donations from more than 600 citizens.
The coffee bar will sell Little River Coffee Co. products and baked goods from Cakehead Bakery.
The Spartanburg City Council invested $21,000 in the building, and the City of Spartanburg Development
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Seay House is Spartanburg’s oldest home, located at 106 Darby Rd. It is a showcase of a farmstead managed by three maiden sisters in the 1800s. Visit this Saturday and experience Spartanburg’s yesteryear. Presented by the Spartanburg County Historical Association.
Auditions: The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood Mon. & Tues., Aug. 23 & 24, 5:30 p.m.
To audition you must be a student in grades 5-12. Come prepared to read from the script. Some shows will require time missed from school. Presented by Spartanburg Youth Theatre at the Chapman Cultural Center.
Spartanburg Little Theatre will perform musical excerpts from “Hello, Dolly!” This free lunchtime concert series showcases regional talent. Brown bag it, or come early and purchase a box lunch. Presented by the Music Foundation of Spartanburg.
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1. Leah Burgess, 2, of Greer and her baby sitter Cyndi Montgomery of Spartanburg look for a leaf Leah dropped into the water of Barnet Park’s Fountain Plaza.
2. Anthony Banza with Roebuck Wholesale Nursery and Landscaping, edges along the sidewalk at Spartanburg Methodist College.
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3. Gene Crow with Hoke Enterprises, scrapes away years of built up varnish on a hand rail at Spartanburg Methodist College. Crow was stripping and refinishing the handrails at the school’s library. Classes start next week.
4. Debbie McAbee of Spartanburg and her new dog Whitey take a break while on a walk to swing at Cleveland park. McAbee adopted Whitey from the Spartanburg Human Society.
5. John Wilber, left, and Steve Richmond work on the windows of the old Spartanburg Water works building in downtown. The building was home to the water works from 1927 to 1970 and is undergoing a major renovation project.
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It’s back to practice for Wofford’s football and soccer teams. The Terriers’ football team will play their first home game Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. The women’s soccer team takes to the field at home Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. against against Presbyterian College. Photos by Mark Olencki
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On finding a family, at Miracle Hill One by one, they walked up the
hill to the white clapboard church they knew so well. And in their own way, they felt the same as the man who said, “If it wasn’t for this place, I don’t know what would’ve happened to me.” The event was the Miracle Hill Children’s Home Reunion, which takes place every two, then every three years. Former residents – young adults to almost retired – come back to the 130 acres in Pumpkintown in Pickens County to see many of the people who took them in when no one else wanted them. Sharon Tiano arrived in 1964 when she was 12 with her 11-year-old sister and 8-year-old brother. Her mother told them they were going shopping for school clothes. “We ate lunch, went down to the office and the man said ‘Are they staying?’ and she said we were,” Tiano said. Then her mother, grandmother and aunt drove down the hill. “Sometimes you don’t get over it,” Tiano said. “I regret how she did it, but it was the best thing.” Miracle Hill got its name while the first building was being constructed in 1958. The walls were up, but the roof wasn’t. And the folks prayed that a storm passing through would spare their work. It rained everywhere but on that building, they said. Then, dormitories housed the
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Miracle Hill Children's Home was built on property in Pickens County and was the first of the ministry's buildings built by an all-volunteer workforce.
children, the children of abuse, neglect. Troubled and unwanted, they found solace and a home with dorm parents like Miss Pat, who seemed to know a little something about everyone who walked into the chapel. “I had her as a dorm parent when she was 7 and now she’s a grandparent,” she whispered as a woman walked in. The former residents were asked to talk about what they remember. “When I came to Miracle Hill I moved up in life,” said a man who lived there for 10 years and for the longest time sat on the steps on Friday afternoons waiting for parents who never came back. “Everything we have learned we have taught our children. It goes on for generations,” one woman said. “I came here at six months,” another man said. “I learned the value of hard
work and the love of country and God.” Reid Lehman, the president of Miracle Hill Ministries, which includes the Rescue Mission in Greenville and a number of other shelters, grew up on the property because his father was the director. He said the best part of growing up there was he met his wife. Today, 40 boys and girls live in what are now cottages straddling the Oolenoy River. Another 45 – 38 younger than 6 – live with foster families. Lehman said the philosophy in its simplest term could be described as effective parenting. The longer, more complicated version, is they use a matrix developed by Cornell University that relies on rewards and expectations rather than punishment and criticism. He said it is not uncommon for people to leave the protected and prim world
of Miracle Hill and veer off for a bit. It’s a disappointing part of the work, but through the years he has seen the same phenomenon happen again and again. Former residents remember where they came from. One man said he got locked up not long after he left and sitting in jail thought of the lessons he’d learned. “I’ve never been in jail again,” he said. Tiano had her struggles, but raised three daughters, largely on her own, held a job and cared for her mother in the last years of her life. Now she’s 58, a barber in a shop where politicians tend to gather in Goose Creek. She’s remarried – two years to a man who brought his youth group from their church to work at Miracle Hill for a week before the reunion. Tiano teared up thinking back on her life, and stood proudly as she pointed down the hill toward the small cemetery. “This is home. My wish is to be buried right down in that cemetery,” she said. Got a story to inspire, amuse, or e n t e r t ain ?
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