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Famous Florentines

Easy like Sunday Morning…

by The Flossip on November 8, 2009

in Famous Florentines,Great Outdoors,Things to do in Florence, SC

Considering I spent almost all day at the Pecan Festival yesterday, I was about an inch short of exhaustion this morning. We have a little routine here at the Flossip house before 11:00 church and it almost always involves watching South Carolina Outdoors with Jay Gregg. I can’t believe I have not mentioned this show [...]

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Local Authors

by The Flossip on November 2, 2009

in Famous Florentines

I am always thrilled to hear about local people that do something great. Chris Craft and Jamey McElveen have written a book that is available on Amazon: iPhone Game Development (Developer Reference). If you’ve always wanted to create an iPhone game application and sell it, this book from two well-known iPhone app developers is for [...]

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Update on Mrs. Ruby

by The Flossip on September 8, 2009

in Famous Florentines

Her family has told me that she is doing well, just not able to get out much.  She is living with her family and they are caring for her. Thanks to everyone that has emailed to ask how she is doing.

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The six degrees of Florence, SC…

by The Flossip on June 9, 2009

in Famous Florentines

Forget Kevin Bacon, Florence is now directly connected to CHRISTIAN BALE. I had the nicest email from Melvin Purvis’ granddaughter a while back.  For those of you that don’t know who Melvin Purvis was, he was the FBI agent that was responsible for the downfall of John Dillinger. She told me that the movie Public [...]

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Do Old Dogs Dream?

by The Flossip on May 19, 2009

in Culture and the Arts,Famous Florentines

Mr. F and I are the lucky owners of this great book by Harold Creel. He was here recently signing books at Porters. I hate that I missed the signing, but I do have the book and I think it is a great coffee table book and a sweet read. It also has 5.0 out [...]

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Mrs. Ruby Didn’t Come to Florence, Florence Came to Mrs. Ruby

by The Flossip on May 5, 2009

in Famous Florentines

PLEASE DO NOT REPRINT OR FORWARD WITHOUT PERMISSION. She sat across from me at the kitchen table, her eyes still bright, her mind still sharp.  The walker and pink pajamas during the day are the only indication that age is catching up with her.  She is a wisp of a woman, formidable still at half [...]

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Who is this crazy Flossip chick anyway?

by The Flossip on April 1, 2009

in Blogging,Famous Florentines

I get emails every day from people wondering who I am. Sometimes they think I am other people in the community, a random hockey mom, a guy that actually lives in Charleston… wrong, wrong, and wrong. The truth, as outlined in my about page, is that nothing can be kept a secret forever. I write [...]

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Florence Native in the News

by The Flossip on February 21, 2009

in Famous Florentines

This article discusses a new book by “Washington author Harold J. Creel.” Many of you may know that before he became a Washington author, he was a Florence, SC Native! Congrats to Mr. Creel, I can not wait to read his book. From the article: Washington author Harold J. Creel has just written “Do Old [...]

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