Greenville's Heritage

by Judith T. Bainbridge

Greenville's Heritage is a collection of Judy Bainbridge's local history articles for the Greenville News of Greenville, South Carolina.

393 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Judith Bainbridge attended Mary Washington College in Virginia, where she received a bachelor of arts degree, and earned masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Iowa. She was professor of English at Johnson C. Smith and Queens colleges in Charlotte NC, and then at Furman University in Greenville SC. She is a native of New Jersey.

Reviews

[Bettie · Rating 4 out of 5]

About the author:

Judith Bainbridge is a professor of English at Furman University. She earned her bachelor of arts degree from Mary Washington College and her MA and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.

First paragraph:

History Happens Locally. Great men and tremendous events may shape a nation, but it is in places like Greenville, South Carolina, that their impact becomes understandable. This city in the Piedmont of South Carolina reflects and illuminates a part of America's past that has helped form its present and mould its future.

Two things of particular note - KKK rulebook was known as the Kloran
The Rowley Street cottage is a super illustration.

[Anson Cassel Mills · Rating 4 out of 5]

The roughly eighty chapters in this self-published compilation are mostly reprints of biweekly columns, written during the first few years of the 21st century by a former English professor at Furman University for the “City People” section of the Greenville News. The strengths and weaknesses of the essays reflect both the author’s background and their original purpose, to provide brief, readable “local heritage” pieces for newspaper readers. Despite a not unsurprising tendency toward chattiness, Bainbridge has written excellent examples of this sort of popular history, well worth reading by anyone interested in the history of Greenville, South Carolina.