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Posted by Chad on February 18th, 2010 under Greenville, Opinion Tags: Downtown, Fine, Greenville News, Greenville Online, Parking •
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I recently wrote another guest editorial for The Greenville News. This time, instead of printing it just as I wrote it, they butchered it down and ran it as a letter to to the editor. As is all too common, their selective editing removed the larger context of the piece.
Here’s their [...]
Posted by Chad on February 2nd, 2010 under Greenville Tags: Downtown, Ice, Reedy River, Snow •
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We had an ice storm this past weekend. It was very mild and by Sunday morning the streets were navigable enough to do some sightseeing. Here’s the Reedy River from the South Main Street bridge:
Posted by Chad on January 25th, 2010 under Greenville, Outdoors, Travel Tags: Creek, Falls, Falls River, Hiking, Jones Gap •
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Last week, the wife and I decided to leave the house get some vitamin D. The foothills of North and South Carolina have many waterfalls, so we decided to visit the one closest to home. Falls Creek Falls is in the Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area in northern Greenville County.
Posted by Chad on December 15th, 2009 under Christmas, Greenville Tags: Christmas, Lights, Sight Seeing •
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In a suburb of Greenville, there’s a family that gets decked out in light suits and waves to passers by. We’ve heard about this bizarre spectacle for a few years and decided to drive by last night:
I guess Louie the Lightning Bug didn’t visit the schools in Pelzer?
Posted by Chad on September 2nd, 2009 under Cycling, Greenville Tags: Bikes, Cycling, Riding, Swamp Rabbit •
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Ever since I bought a used bike and my wife restored her old one, she’s been bugging me to get out and ride the new Swamp Rabbit Trail extension in Traveler’s Rest, SC. The Swamp Rabbit Trail is named for the defunct railroad line that used to pass through the area until 1993. [...]
Posted by Chad on September 1st, 2009 under Cycling, Greenville, Sports Tags: Cycling, Hincapie, Main Street, Road Racing •
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Greenville native George Hincapie won the 2009 USA Cycling Professional Road Race Championship on Sunday. It was an amazing race and we got really lucky with the weather. It was overcast and in the mid-80s all day, and the only rain was a light drizzle. My wife and I watched the first [...]
Posted by Chad on April 4th, 2009 under Greenville Tags: Falls Park, Greenville, Libery Bridge •
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In case you were wondering about the picture at the top of this website, it’s the Liberty Bridge in Falls Park in downtown Greenville:
The park’s most striking feature is a unique pedestrian bridge that curves around a waterfall on the Reedy River. Named the Liberty Bridge at Falls Park on the Reedy, the 355-foot (108 [...]