Greenville, SC & Athens, GA

Reedy River Falls!

GREENVILLE: the lovely ladies from Indie Craft Parade pulled together a great day at the Hughes Library.  We had a huge turnout!  Literally a line down the block.  And everyone politely waited their turn in line, lulled into complacency by the tiny delicious cupcakes from Coffee to a Tea.

love this photo by Indie Craft Parade

Elizabeth and Erin took me out for dinner afterwards, and showed me around their cool little town.  The visit was so short, too short.  I liked the feel of this town, and hope to come back sometime – maybe for the next Indie Craft Parade?  I ended the evening cleaning up at a game of Go Fish with a few strangers at a bar.  Who knew I was a hustler?

Little Kings Shuffle Club. photo by thedayjobs.com

ATHENS: this event came together super last minute.  I was always planning on bringing the truck to Athens – this is one of those towns I’ve always been curious about, as an unusually high percentage of my favorite bands have come out of here.  I knew it was a place I wanted to visit.  But for some reason, I just couldn’t get my act together to book something.  Other things kept coming up and getting in the way of making any plans.  And so I was thrilled when Rick Hawkins, a dealer of letterpress equipment (and scooters, and old computers, and film projectors, and toy accordions, and diesel engines, etc etc) contacted me to see if I wanted any help setting something up.

some of Rick's collection

He ended up securing some parking at Little Kings Shuffle Club, a super low key and awesome bar downtown with a great big patio and parking lot.  He also got the word out to the local papers and you know what?  People showed up!  It turned out to be a great night.  The next morning, I ate a hearty breakfast at The Grit before shoving off to Atlanta.  Athens and Greenville, my visits were too quick, but I will be back some day.  I like you.