Frank M. Anderson's Writing

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  • 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: How Greenville Got Its Name

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: How Greenville Got Its Name

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    The The Simpsons takes place in a fictional town called Springfield. The name was chosen for a simple reason: there are so many Springfields across the United States that it could feel like anywhere. In that sense, Greenville isn’t all that different. There are Greenvilles in multiple states—North Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, and beyond. The name…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: Cherokee Ground Beneath Greenville

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: Cherokee Ground Beneath Greenville

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    Greenville is a city that likes to talk about what comes next. We talk about growth, new restaurants, bike trails, development, rankings, housing prices, and whether traffic has finally become unbearable. We talk about what Greenville is becoming. That makes sense. Growing places often become a little obsessed with the future. But places are not…

  • Seen/Unseen Greenville: This Place Has Never Been One Thing

    Seen/Unseen Greenville: This Place Has Never Been One Thing

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    Welcome to Seen / Unseen Greenville This blog will still have all kinds of posts. Politics, family, recovery, culture, whatever life puts in front of me. That part isn’t changing. But I wanted to mark a new direction I’m excited about. I’ve lived in Greenville most of my life, and like a lot of people,…