glendale
Graffiti at the River
Submitted by John Lane on Sun, 03/15/2009 - 2:01pm. environmental art | environmental studies | glendale | graffiti | kudzu telegraph | Wofford CollegeMy first assignment for this semester's environmental humanities class at Wofford College may seem a little odd to the non-academic: inventory graffiti on the Glendale bridge and shoals.
Why graffiti? First, there's plenty of it at Glendale Shoals, and I'd once heard writer Alex Haley of ROOTS fame tell about how he moved his family around the South in the 1960s and always inventoried the graffiti in bathrooms. If the graffiti was overtly racist, he'd move his family on. He knew that town was rotten at the core.
The Long Haul
Submitted by John Lane on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 1:48pm. field work | glendale | kudzu telegraph | WoffordOn Saturday I paddled my canoe above the dam at Glendale. It was a warm late summer day, and yellow-bellied and painted turtles were basking on debris along the old mill pond's far shore. It couldn't have been more beautiful, and I couldn't have been more happy.
Glendale Outdoor Leadership School (GOLS)
Submitted by John Lane on Sat, 11/29/2008 - 1:03pm. glendale | kudzu telegraph | outdoor education"Recreation is the new wilderness." That's what environmental historian Hal Rothman says about the shift in priorities in the last 20 years in much of the environmental community nationwide. What Rothman means by this is that in the heyday of the environmental movement wilderness was the number one issue worth fighting for, and instead today it is often, "How can we have fun out in the wild?"
Walking the Old Trolley Line
Submitted by John Lane on Sun, 09/14/2008 - 2:18pm. clifton | glendale | history | kudzu telegraph | spartanburgThere's been so much talk lately about master planning, connectivity of communities, trail building, and traffic that I decided to walk from Glendale to Clifton this week along the route of the old trolley.
