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Saturday, April 6th, 2024

Greenville, SC: The Stroll Down Stone


Stone Avenue is a street that more or less forms the northern boundary of Greenville's central city. Between downtown proper and Stone Avenue is a short stretch of historic district that, like Stone Avenue itself, is divided between new housing, old housing, and businesses that occupy structures that were formerly housing.

This salon offers yoni steaming. Do you know what yoni steaming is? Google it and get back to me, then consider that there are three(!) places where you can get your yoni steamed on Stone Avenue.







Greenville is famed for its calm and measured motorists, one of whom recently visited this utility pole.











A fringe flower bush.



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This building formerly housed the biggest gay club in Greenville. It was called The Castle.











Wisteria, a beautiful but invasive weed in Upstate South Carolina.











A few of the houses on Stone are still residences.



Join me in a moment of silence for World Piece, a truly magnificent pizza place that used to occupy a space in this complex.





















A redbud tree. I got a couple of these from the Arbor Day Foundation and I'm growing them in pots on my porch until they're big enough to plant and not be immediately stripped bare by carpenter bees.



















Saturday, April 13th, 2024

Greenville, SC: Art for Art's Sake


A friend from Asheville came down for the day, so we went to the Greenville County Art Museum and then went out for dinner and dessert.











































When our friend learned about the Sigal Music Museum, we just absolutely had to go see it too.











Two instruments, a flute and a drum, made from human bones.







Sheet music from circa 1300CE on the left, 900CE on the right.







Opera cake on the left, sachertorte on the right.



Saturday, April 20th, 2024

Greenville, SC: Greenville Rides Teeny, Tiny Bicicleta to Skewl


One of the nice things about Greenville is how well it makes use of its natural assets. Greenville is in the foothills, not the mountains, so the scenery isn't as flashy as it is up in Asheville. However, I would argue that Greenville, knowing that, works harder and more than makes up for it. Greenville boasts two major natural attractions that bookend the city: Paris Mountain State Park to the north and Lake Conestee Nature Preserve to the south. In between you have a splendid network of parks strung along the Reedy River on a greenway network called the Swamp Rabbit Trail that runs more than thirty miles as it traverses Greenville County.

On the north side of town, the Swamp Rabbit Trail passes by the campus of Furman University which, with its botanical gardens and arboretum, is yet another major natural asset for a growing city. My husband and I, after telling ourselves every year that we wanted to go visit, finally made it up there today.

But first, we made a pitstop at the Walmart Neighborhood Market not far from the campus. Why? Because of something else that I find interesting about Greenville. Greenville is a rapidly growing area and as it has grown an awful lot of small cemeteries and family burial grounds have gotten stranded as land was sold for developments. Such was the case of the Duncan Chapel Methodist Church cemetery.







There is a small parking lot near Furman where you can leave your car and get on the trail. It boasts a random train car.







The campus has quite a bit of public art, some of seemingly random.



For no discernible reason the campus also boasts a replica of the cabin where Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden.



















































Still life with Japanese painted fern, garter snake:























The Japanese garden at Furman is very nice, but it also has a surprise that we'll get to later.































Surprise! The Tsuzuki family temple, which was deconstructed in 2004 and shipped from Nagoya, Japan to Greenville to be reassembled on the Furman University campus. It is the only known authentic Japanese temple to have been moved in its entirety to the United States.

















Another view of the Old College from 1851, where the first two professors taught a handful of students in two rooms. Originally there were two colleges located in downtown Greenville that eventually merged and relocated to the university's current location in 1961. A few buildings were relocated from the downtown location to Furman's current location, including this one and a cabin first constructed in 1937 as a snack bar that now serves as student housing.







Random art is best art.



As on any day when the weather is anything even approaching nice, the Swamp Rabbit Trail was aswarm with people on bikes.







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Nice set of photos, very interesting! All of your photos are interesting, but this recent post really caught my eye. I love music museums, too, I guess it's because I'm really into musical instruments.

I love that you're showcasing an area of the US that I'm totally unfamiliar with.
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Nice set of photos, very interesting! All of your photos are interesting, but this recent post really caught my eye. I love music museums, too, I guess it's because I'm really into musical instruments.
This is the museum we went to: https://sigalmusicmuseum.org/

It's one of several cultural amenities all clumped together around a park called Heritage Green on the north side of downtown. The county art museum, children's museum, history museum, main county library, and the Greenville Theatre are all located there. The Sigal Museum is the only one in an historic building, an old Coca-Cola bottling plant that predates everything else on the site. Right now there is work and streetscaping underway to better and more pleasantly connect Heritage Green to the rest of downtown.

It's very "Greenville" that there would be an historic industrial building incorporated into the complex. Greenville is littered with historic industrial structures that have found new life as this, that, and the other. There are several right in the heart of downtown, even, including old textile mills, a cigar factory and a cigar warehouse, and a factory that made coaches and carriages.
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That's pretty cool that Furman has that temple! I always like seeing historic building brought piece by piece from other parts of the world. There's part of a monastery from the Pyrenese Mountains on Paradise Island in the Bahamas that is quite interesting.
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That's pretty cool that Furman has that temple! I always like seeing historic building brought piece by piece from other parts of the world. There's part of a monastery from the Pyrenese Mountains on Paradise Island in the Bahamas that is quite interesting.
I thought it was very interesting as well. Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything else in the area quite like it.
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i thought you would get a laugh out of this funny asheville bar meme — they said they heard you can get pbr at chili’s in greenville —


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i thought you would get a laugh out of this funny asheville bar meme — they said they heard you can get pbr at chili’s in greenville —


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Soon, that may be about the only place you can get alcohol at all in South Carolina. The state passed a law requiring establishments that sell booze to carry a ludicrous amount of insurance in the even someone drives drunk after buying booze at a club or restaurant. It's already put about ten places in Greenville out of business and people are getting big mad about it. Unintended consequences and all that.
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Soon, that may be about the only place you can get alcohol at all in South Carolina. The state passed a law requiring establishments that sell booze to carry a ludicrous amount of insurance in the even someone drives drunk after buying booze at a club or restaurant. It's already put about ten places in Greenville out of business and people are getting big mad about it. Unintended consequences and all that.
Hmm, interesting. I would think that would be unconstitutional somehow.

This made me do a brief Google search about it. I guess it's called a "dram shop" law? I've never heard of it. But in California, according to a source, "California law significantly limits hosts' and vendors' legal responsibility for alcohol-related accidents, but they can still be held liable if they serve alcohol to someone under 21 who goes on to injure someone.

"California Civil Code section 1714 explicitly states that furnishing alcohol 'is not the proximate cause of injuries resulting from intoxication, but rather the consumption of alcoholic beverages is the proximate cause of injuries inflicted upon another by an intoxicated person.' This law essentially shields California bars, restaurants, party hosts, and most others from potential liability for selling or furnishing alcohol to adult customers or guests."

Source: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclope...s%20California

So basically, in California, it's only if a business sells alcohol to someone under 21 (which they're not supposed to do anyway) and that person goes on to injure someone, that that business is liable.
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South Carolina has a really weird attitude toward booze sales. Up until 2006 (!), bars and restaurants were only allowed to use little mini bottles of booze like they have on airplanes. It's one of the most conservative states in the country.
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That campanile is pretty darn idyllic
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That campanile is pretty darn idyllic
It's a copy of the one originally built in 1854 when the university was located in downtown Greenville. Furman University moved from downtown to its current location near Paris Mountain, north of the city, in the 1960's. The land on which the downtown campus stood was eventually repurposed in 1999 for the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities.
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Fantastic photos as always! It's been a few years since I've been in Greenville and I'm overdue for a trip. Honestly, it makes me happy (and a bit envious) to see how so many cities in the Carolinas are urbanizing and densifying. They're all turning into very comfortable places to live, even more so than they already are.
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The summer in Greenville thus far:

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Sunday, May 12, 2024

Greenville, SC: "But not a real green dress, that's cruel."


We met up with one of my coworkers to visit the Artisphere festival and take a look at a new piece of public art unveiled on Main Street to mark the festival's twentieth anniversary.

































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Saturday, May 18, 2024

Greenville, SC: The games people play


We met up with a different coworker to hit up a retrocade.



















Friday, June 28, 2024

Greenville, SC: Definitely haunted


My husband and I tried a new (to us) restaurant, a Greenville institution that's been in business since the 60's and looks like it. You don't find atmosphere like this anymore. The food was excellent, too.





Saturday, June 29, 2024

Greenville, SC: "And aren't you proud to be a part of it?"


In short, we attended Upstate Pride, and somehow ended up in the parade going up Main Street.





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Friday, September 27th, 2024

Greenville, SC: The "Great Hush"












Saturday, September 28th, 2024

Greenville, SC: Safe and sound








Sunday, September 29th, 2024

Greenville, SC: After the storm




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Did you guys get a lot of damage?
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^ It looks like a lot of damage. We need trees in our environment, but tall trees always pose this problem in cities.
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Yes. All those pictures are from my house. That's not my car though, thankfully.

Downtown was okay. One of the big trees on Main Street came down and others lost limbs, and some of the signs on the buildings lost letters. All the parks had severe flooding as well.

Down here it was catastrophic. Ninety percent of Greenville County lost power and it's still out for most people. No internet and for most of Friday cell service was down. Up in North Carolina though, it's indescribable. People are looting in Hendersonville, where my brother lives. My brother and his family all came down to my place yesterday to spend the day. There are entire towns in Western North Carolina that no longer exist in any recognizable form. Others are only accessible by air now due to roads either washed out and destroyed or blocked. The water system in Asheville has more or less been destroyed, and this morning one of our friends up there texted us that all the first responders had been ordered out to Swannanoa because of imminent dam failure at one of the reservoirs.
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Yes. All those pictures are from my house. That's not my car though, thankfully.

Downtown was okay. One of the big trees on Main Street came down and others lost limbs, and some of the signs on the buildings lost letters. All the parks had severe flooding as well.

Down here it was catastrophic. Ninety percent of Greenville County lost power and it's still out for most people. No internet and for most of Friday cell service was down. Up in North Carolina though, it's indescribable. People are looting in Hendersonville, where my brother lives. My brother and his family all came down to my place yesterday to spend the day. There are entire towns in Western North Carolina that no longer exist in any recognizable form. Others are only accessible by air now due to roads either washed out and destroyed or blocked. The water system in Asheville has more or less been destroyed, and this morning one of our friends up there texted us that all the first responders had been ordered out to Swannanoa because of imminent dam failure at one of the reservoirs.
Sorry that you lost some siding. At least it wasn't your car. Pictures and videos out of Asheville and that area are crazy. I am praying for everyone there, and especially your brother now, and am donating money to help people down there (in addition to my normal donations).
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Interesting pictures, as always!

Glad to know you're doing well, hauntedheadnc.
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Friday, October 4th, 2024

Asheville, NC: *incoherent screaming*


I work for a company that owns several medical clinics. Yesterday my boss and I went to Asheville to deliver supplies we had collected in Greenville for the staff and patients at our Asheville location. I took these photos from the passenger seat of her car. We brought food, hygiene supplies, drinking water and non-potable water because most of Asheville is still without water and power. That's really all I can say about it without starting to feel sick.

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