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  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: The 1946 Ideal Laundry Explosion — The Forgotten Explosion

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: The 1946 Ideal Laundry Explosion — The Forgotten Explosion

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    The Map Beneath the Map is the historical spine of the Seen / Unseen Greenville project. It explores the idea that cities are layered — that modern Greenville was built on top of older systems, older neighborhoods, older conflicts, and older ways of life that still shape the city today, even when we no longer…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: What Kind of City Are We Becoming?

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: What Kind of City Are We Becoming?

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    Over the past few weeks, this project has honestly felt a little chaotic at times. I’ve produced a flood of material:-history posts,-city planning discussions,-maps,-timelines,-personal memories,-civic frustrations,-philosophical essays,-local observations,-and probably far too many long-form posts for the average Facebook scroll session. At times, I imagine it has looked less like a coherent project and more like…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: The Map Beneath the Map

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: The Map Beneath the Map

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    Welcome to The Map Beneath the Map- a historical branch of Seen / Unseen Greenville exploring the older layers underneath modern Greenville When most people think about Greenville, they think about the version they can immediately see. Falls Park. Main Street. The bridge. The restaurants. The polished downtown that shows up in tourism campaigns and…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: A Timeline of the City Beneath the City

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: A Timeline of the City Beneath the City

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    What came before—and what never fully left Greenville can feel like a new city. A growing city.A successful city.A city figuring itself out in real time. But that version of Greenville—the one most of us experience day to day—is only the latest layer. What makes Greenville interesting isn’t just what it is now. It’s how…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: The Map of Schools

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: The Map of Schools

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    The Map You Don’t See If you laid a map of Greenville County on the table and marked school performance, it would look one way. If you marked income levels, it would look another. But when you put them together, the two maps start to overlap. Not perfectly. But clearly enough to notice. What We’re…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: The Hidden Origins of Segregation

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: The Hidden Origins of Segregation

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    What It Looked Like Up Close Growing up, I lived in the Augusta Road area near the Cleveland Street YMCA. Just a few blocks away was Nicholtown—what people would have called “the Black side of town.” It wasn’t far. Close enough to walk. Close enough that people moved through both areas every day. But it…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: A City Divided

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: A City Divided

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    There are parts of Greenville that feel like they’ve always belonged together. Downtown.The parks.The places people point to when they talk about how far the city has come. And then there are the other parts. The neighborhoods you don’t end up in by accident.The streets that don’t connect the way you expect them to.The invisible…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: Unity Park, Social Justice, and the Tower to Nowhere

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: Unity Park, Social Justice, and the Tower to Nowhere

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    There is a lot to admire about Unity Park. It is beautiful, spacious, and full of life. It transformed long-overlooked land near the Reedy River into one of Greenville’s most impressive public spaces. Families gather there, kids play there, people walk and rest there, and for many residents it has become a genuine source of…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: What Do We Want These Buildings to Be?

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: What Do We Want These Buildings to Be?

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    Lately, as I drive around Greenville and through other parts of South Carolina, I keep returning to a question that became much more personal after my own attempt to open a coffee shop: What do we actually want these empty places to become? That question sounds simple until you try to build something yourself. From…

  • Four Greenvilles

    Four Greenvilles

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    When people talk about Greenville, they usually talk about it like it is one place with one shared experience. A single city moving in one direction with one story to tell. But that has never really been true. Greenville is several Greenvilles at once. Different versions of the same city, living beside each other, shaping…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: Polished Surface, Divided Ground

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: Polished Surface, Divided Ground

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    Welcome Back to Seen / Unseen Greenville This blog will still go wherever life takes it—family, politics, recovery, culture, memory, and whatever else feels worth talking about. But I wanted to mark a direction I’m especially excited about. Seen / Unseen Greenville will be an ongoing series where I take a closer look at this…