Daily Archives: 02/17/2015
Deep Winter Blues set for Saturday at Hagood Mill
PICKENS — It has been cold and bleak outside, so to heat things up, Hagood Mill will present “Deep Winter Blues” from noon until 3 p.m. this Saturday.
Steve McGaha
Upcountry South Carolina is a historical Mecca for the Piedmont blues. Throughout the 1920s and ‘30s, the streets of Laurens County, Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson reverberated with the music of bluesmen/street preachers as they were strolling with their tin cups extended.
Many of these musicians became famous on the streets of New York City in the folk revival of the ‘50s and ‘60s. It is that tradition that is celebrated each February at Hagood Mill.
This year’s lineup features Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award
Courier Classified 2-18-15
HELEN SCRUGGS HOWLAND
PICKENS — Helen Craig Scruggs Howland, 93, of 519 Wolf Creek School Road, died Thursday, Feb. 11, 2015, at Manna Health & Rehab in Pickens.
Born in Pickens, she was the widow of Merle Howland a daughter of the late Rev. Clarence Craig and Ada Brown Craig.
She was a member of Blue Ridge View Baptist Church and throughout her life one of her
