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May/June 2009

Home, Garden & Green Thinking

Rooms to Grow

Home and Garden

It could be said that gardening runs in Don Morris’s blood the way music and fashion courses through the veins of other artists who lay claim to an inherited sense of sound and style. Don, the product of several generations of farmers, spent his childhood on the Morris’s Pee Dee farm helping to grow crops and keep up acres of lawn and landscape.

Shifting Gears

Our Town

The sound of wheezing travels. Even in the Upstate, you can hear it plain and clear, as Detroit, almost 700 miles away, gasps for air. Crushing fuel prices, the rise of environmental regulation, and a flat-out lousy economy are some of the weights bearing down on a city tethered to a sinking auto industry.

Pro Golfer Lucas Glover

20 Answers

This Wade Hampton High graduate and Clemson University All-American talks about competing on the PGA Tour, cheering for his beloved Tigers, and some of his favorite local courses for chasing the little white ball.

Care Takers

History

You’ve probably passed it hundreds of times. And missed it. A little white wooden sign posted at the edge of busy Academy Street provides the only marker denoting the Kilgore-Lewis House, set back from the road and facing McPherson Park.

Home-Plate Pioneer

History

The story of textile mill baseball is well known in Greenville thanks to luminaries such as Shoeless Joe Jackson, who emerged on the dusty fields of the mill hills and ascended to the heights of profe

Root of the Matter

Doing Business

"They are locally abundant but globally rare,” explains Rick Huffman, steadying his frame with a weathered walking stick.

Kathy Moça and Emilie Whitaker

My Faves

This mother-daughter duo shares a passion for their designer-jeans business, Beija-Flor, not to mention all things classy and comfortable.

Bill Orders

G Profile

A lengthy resumé, walls full of framed photographs, glass-encased awards, plaques, certificates, and a Rolodex stuffed with the numbers of Greenville’s best and brightest—these items are certainly tan

Home Resurrected

G Home

If you want to get inside Dwain Skinner’s head to understand how the artist recovered and put together the pieces of his recreated, L-shaped farmhouse in the foothills of Landrum, start in the kitchen

Restaurant Without Borders

Restaurant Review

Known more for its stately historic homes and quiet sidewalks than its burgeoning dining scene, the North Main Street neighborhood and its resident eatery, The Bohemian Café Restaurant and Bar, could

Farm to Table

In Good Taste

A chorus of cicadas sets the trees that surround Red Fern Farm humming.