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Animals
at Hollywild Hollywild Animal Park near Inman is full of Celebrities. The following list is only a partial resume of its resident's performances:
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Carl
Blair The of this former Bob Jones University Art Professor may be found in some 2,500 permanent private, corporate and public collections including: IBM, Spaulding Corp., BASF Corp., Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (University of Nebraska), McDonalds International, Hyatt Hotel, Price Waterhouse Coopers, and Tuskeegee Institute. Blair has been included in numerous publications including The Fine Art Index, American Artists, New York Art Review, The Art Gallery Magazine, La Revue Moderne, International Directory of Art, Dictionary of International Biography, Men of Achievement, International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, and International Leaders in Achievement.
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Wilson
Casey -
added 4/02 Wilson Casey, also known as "The Trivia Guy" set a Guinness World Record in 1999 by asking 3,303 brainteasers on radio for 30 consecutive hours. Retired from radio, Casey currently has a syndicated trivia column, Trivia Fun, which is carried in publications throughout the U.S. His book series,"Trivia Teaser Books" is available at most major book stores. In November of 2002, Casey appeared on an episode of The Weakest Link which was comprised of Guiness Book record holders.
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Sid
Couchey -
added 4/02 For nearly three decades, beginning in the 1950s, Sid Couchey was a cartoonist for several well known comic strips. The characters which appeared in Richie Rich, Little Lotta, and Little Dot were the collaborative efforts of Couchey and his storywriters. Although he has long retired, Couchey still draws cartoon strips for hire.
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"Looking back on a career that has seen her work exhibted in Europe, Japan and Australia as well as the United States, one is struck by the constant and apparently effortless development of imagery and technique which have left Ann DerGara three steps ahead of a crowd of imitators." - Roger Caplan, Myriad Fine Art Born in Greenville, SC, Dergara owns the Red Wolf Gallery and currently maintains her art studio in Brevard, NC.
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Arthur
Deshaies A retired University of Florida Art Professor, Deshaies' work is represented in collections around the world. Prior to an exhibition at the Middle Tyger Library in Spartanburg County, his work has been included in exhibits in New York City (the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the Metropolitan Museum of Art), Washington (the Smithsonian), London ( the Tate and the National Gallery), Paris (the Bibliothèque Nationale) and Mexico City (Palacio Bells Arte). Except for a short time during WWII in which he was a war artist, Deshaies has always been an abstract expressionist, preoccupied with outer space. In an interview with Gary Henderson (Spartanburg Herald-Journal 8/5/00) he said, "I have a spiritual relationship with space. If they asked me to take a trip, I'd go."
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William
Gillette Gillette (1853-1937) was the first American actor to play the part of Sherlock Holmes on the stage. Gillette rewrote one of the stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into a stage play, Sherlock Holmes. The play opened starring Gillette and was a great success. Gillette went on to play Holmes more than 1300 times with great financial success. It was Gillette who adopted the famed curved pipe for the character. Ethel Barrymore, Helen Hayes and Charlie Chaplin received their first major roles from Gillette.
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Claire
Miller Hopkins Hopkins' paintings and drawing are widely known throughout the southeast and have won awards in a number of national and regional exhibitions. Her many memberships include the Pastel Society of America (NY) in which she has been bestowed the designation of Master Pastelist, an honor accorded to less than 150 artists. She was a featured artist in The Artists' Magazine in Fall of 1994, and was a contributing artist in the following books, Pastel Interpretations (Northlight), The Art of Pastel Portraiture (Watson-Guptil), The Best of Portrait Painting (Northlight), The Pastel Journal (included in article on portraiture), and The Best of Pastel 2 (Quarry).
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Hub
City Writers Project -
updated 4/02 In May 1995, a trio of writers in Spartanburg, S.C, began to talk in a downtown coffee shop about how they could help preserve a sense of place in their rapidly changing Southern city. Hub City was shepherded in its early days by Wofford College poet John Lane, journalists Betsy Teter and Gary Henderson, and photographer/graphic designer Mark Olencki. In May 2002, the writers project received the Governor's Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Award for outstanding contribution to the arts in South Carolina. Today the Hub City Writers Project lives on, with a clear mission to foster a sense of community, advance the careers of local writers, and make Spartanburg a hub for the literary arts. Among the nationally recognized authors who have contributed work to Hub City books are Josephine Humphreys, Bret Lott, Fred Chappell, Shelby Hearon, Dori Sanders, and Frye Gaillard. A 1998 title, New Southern Harmonies: Four Emerging Fiction Writers was named best book of short fiction in North America by Independent Publisher magazine. The success of the press has led to national media attention, including articles in the New York Times, Utne Reader, and Orion Afield, and the spin-off of similar efforts in other parts of the country. Among other communities that used the Hub City model to create place-based literature are Beaufort, S.C.; Flagstaff, AR.; Fidalgo Island, WA; and Charlotte, NC.
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Sidney
Lanier A poet and musician, Lanier was an accomplished flutist, and in 1880, he wrote a study of the interrelation of music and poetry, The Science of English Verse. His own melodic verses were published in Poems in 1887. A naturalist as well, in 1881 he traveled to Tryon from Asheville (where he was spending the summer for his health) to conduct experiments on the "so-called no-frost zone on the side of Tryon Mountain." In 1881, he died in Tryon at the Wilcox home, which has since been known as the Lanier House.
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Bob
LoGrippo A nationally recognized illustrator, LoGrippo has taught at the Pratt Institute and the Parsons School of Design. Bob's work is in many private collections throughout the world including the Bacardi Rum Private Collection, the Exxon Corporation Private Collection, Louisianna-Pacific Private Collection, and the U.S. Embassies in Czechoslavakia and Romania. He has received numerous national awards from the Society of Publication Designers and the Society of Illustrators. His commissioned work appears in books, magazines, calendars, products, album covers, posters and lithographic reproductions.
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Andie
MacDowell Born and raised in Gaffney, MacDowell first achieved success as an exclusive model for L'Oreal. She made her acting debut in "Greystoke" and found critical acclaim in "sex, lies and videotape." Other movies include "Green Card" with Gerard Depardieu, "Groundhog Day" with Bill Murray and "Michael" with John Travolta.
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Millie-Christine
McKoy Born into slavery in 1851 just outside of Whiteville, N.C., the conjoined twins came to Spartanburg with their owner J.P Smith. Exhibited around the world first as a curiosity, later as two of the best known personalities of their time, the girls gained their freedom at the close of the Civil War, and returned to Spartanburg where they hired their former owner to manage them. They spoke five languages, played the piano, sang and danced before audiences around the world. They were received by Queen Victoria and other heads of state. Later they moved back to Whiteville where they bought the plantation on which they were born and took their place among the wealthiest people in town. A large obituary ran in the New York Times upon their death.
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Julia
Peterkin The only South Carolinian to have won a Pulizer Prize in Literature, Peterkin (1880-1961) was bestowed that honor for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary. A graduate of Converse College in Spartanburg, Peterkin gained reknown for rejecting the racial stereotypes common in much of southern literature at the time.
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Carl
Sandburg Sandburg lived the last 22 years of his life on Connemara, his 245 acre farm near East Flat Rock. Although he began his literary career in a less than auspicious manner failing the written examination in grammar and arithmetic at West Point, he somewhat atoned for his early incompetence by later winning a Pulitzer Prize for for his poetry in 1950. In 1963, he received the International United Poets Award as "Hon. Poet Laureate of the U.S.A". The following year, he was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1967, he died at Connemara at age 89.
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Her first novel, Clover, brought Dori Sanders critical and commercial acclaim. Along with a Lilian Smith Award and an option for a Walt Disney movie, she appeared on NBC's Sunday Today show. In 1993, her novel "Her Own Place" was published to much fanfare. Today she continues to live in York where her family has raised peaches for many years. Her latest book, "Cooking with Dori Sanders"
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Rosa
Shand One of Spartanburg's contemporary writers, nationally distributed Soho Press has accepted two of Shands' novels (The Gravity of Sunlight, due out May '00) and two short-story collections for printing . Winner of the prestigious Katherine Ann Porter Prize, in 1999 Shand also received a $20,000 Individual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Four of her stories are included in the "New Southern Harmonies," a Hub City Writers Project publication that won the Independent Publisher's award for the best independently published short fiction work in America in 1999.
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Gina
Tolleson This former Miss World is currently a reporter and television personality.
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Ellen
Bryant Voigt A graduate of Converse College, Ellen Bryant Voigt has authored five volumes of poetry. In 1993 she won the Hanes Prize for Poetry, and in 1995 her collection Kyrie was a National Book Award Finalist.
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Celia
Weston Weston appeared on the television sitcom "Alice" from 1981 to 1985. Having Appeared in the films "Dead Man Walking" and "Flirting With Disaster" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley," she was nominated for a Tony Award in 1997 for Best Supporting Actress in "The Last Night of Ballyhoo."
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Thomas
Wolfe Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) was widely known for his autobiographical novels. The stories and characters in Look Homeward Angel were so thinly veiled, that it was banned from Asheville libraries for seven years. Born in Asheville, Wolfe graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1920. The "Look Homeward Angel" angel may be seen in a Cemetary from Highway 64 near Hendersonville. His mother's boarding house is now the Thomas Wolfe Memorial in Asheville.
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Joanne
Woodward Having appeared in over 40 movies including "Three Faces of Eve" for which she won Oscar in 1957, and "The Glass Menagerie", Woodward has been married to actor Paul Newman since 1958.
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