Newly added historical info
Posted By Janis Bishop on September 4, 2015
Click on the history page and see some recently added documents that include stories from some of Graniteville’s first residents.
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Another fun 4th!
Posted By Janis Bishop on July 9, 2015
Thanks to everyone who came out for the parade and picnic and also a special thanks for supporting the Volunteer Fire Company. Also to the Shepherd Canyon Band for the foot tapping fun in the School House on Saturday night!
Save the Date!
Posted By Janis Bishop on June 25, 2015
Save the date! Annual 4th of July Parade and Picnic coming up on the actual 4th of July this year. Parade starts at 11:30 followed by picnic/raffle/Bluegrass music at the School House. For those of you from out of town, all are welcome but know that there are no services in Graniteville (no camping, gas, stores, etc.)
There will be food, fun, drink (and outhouses) and everyone is welcome to be in and/or watch the fun parade and come to the festivities afterward. There will be a raffle to help support the Volunteer Fire Department.
The Fortress
Posted By Janis Bishop on May 28, 2015
A poem by Ed Show
May 23, 2015
I’m not a resident but I visit now and then.
And there’s a bridge at the Elevated end of this town straddling Poorman’s Creek.
And this Creek is the Township’s enduring, constant natural dynamic (at least I’ve always thought that).
Does Poorman’s water voice pray for me (or for another)?
Or is its solitary song a private language of wordless rhythms resonating only for an audience of granite ears?
And on my way towards the Bridge, A Fortress measures my progress, makes me watch my own steps (carefully).
The Fortress has been here as long as I can recall but not forever like Poorman’s Stream
Someone fastened its planks like solid anchors into an earthy uneveness, supporting a Fortress of walls that scrape sky beneath old pine, cedar and fir.
Who could have done this — and how? (Certainly not a poor man.)
Only Wealthy-Minded Man and his Machines and Imagination.
A Fortress serving as an Artist and Craftsman’s factory for shaping memories of many sorts.
Today the Bridge and Creek attend to the renewal of mountain dogwood’s beautifully-brilliant, milky floral Dance.
But The Fortress has been invited to a Dance of an altered sort.
Once where TIME (the master teacher of every artist and craftsman) creates a new Song and a new Dance in another Land.
And those who were seen to be dancing (there) were thought to be mad by those who could not (yet) hear the Music.
Read by Ed Show at event honoring Richard Mehrken’s Life at the Graniteville School House
Italicized emboldened last verse is a paraphrased thought of of Friedrich Nietzche