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Greenville in the News

Or, Why you want to come visit!

Thanks to friends pointing out these stories on Facebook and Twitter!(And people say they don’t learn anything important in social media?)


How A Park Helped One Town Weather The Recession

Southern U.S. distillery to legally sell moonshine

By the way, my favorite part from the latter story:

The area was settled, along with the nearby Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, by Scots, Irish and Welsh who migrated down through the Appalachian mountain chain from Pennsylvania in the 1700s.

“They thought it was their inalienable, God-given right to make whiskey,”

Yup, those are my people! 😉

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