Cokesbury College Tour: 2017 edition
June is the start of the month long South Carolina Festival of Flowers in Greenwood County. What began as a celebration of gardening in 1968 has blossomed (sorry) into a month long series of events throughout Greenwood County. This year the Festival of Flowers celebrates its 50th anniversary , with special events planned to celebrate the occasion. The event that's always interested me the most is the tour of historic Cokesbury College in Cokesbury , a community situated a few miles north of Greenwood. When I last went in 2013 with Tom Taylor and Allan Russel , the tour was held on a Saturday. Sometime in the last four years, the tour shifted to Sunday and an ice cream social is now part of the tour, but the antiques show I liked so much that took place in front of the building is no longer. Education has played a major role in Cokesbury's history. Cokesbury was founded in 1824 as Mount Ariel by members of the nearby Methodist community of Tabernacle. The citizens...