Get a Taste of the South Carolina Pecan Trail Libby Wiersema
Libby Wiersema lived in California and Alabama before settling in South Carolina 30 years ago,
where she s covered the state s best culinary offerings and tells the stories behind the food.
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Visitors go nuts for pecans in Florence, South Carolina.
Pecan love is rampant in South Carolina, soaring higher than the shady, long-leafed trees on which they grow. But nowhere is that ardor more passionately expressed than in my hometown of Florence, where pecans are a part of the town’s heritage. On the first Saturday of November, the entire town goes nuts, literally, when it throws the South Carolina Pecan Festival. More than 50,000 revelers fill the streets of downtown to enjoy a full day of family-friendly fun, including everything from live music to cook-offs to local art and, of course, plenty of pecan goodies. All to celebrate Florence’s long history of producing delicious pec
Updated: 2:10 PM CST December 11, 2020
COLLEGE STATION, Texas College Station High School will have a new principal roaming the halls come January. Justin Grimes is the person College Station ISD Superintendent Mike Martindale will recommend to the CSHS Board of Trustees to be named as principal.
Grimes is currently serving as principal at College View High School. He has been in that role for the last two and a half years. Grimes will replace current CSHS principal Tiffany Parkerson, who was named as Executive Director of Secondary Education for CSISD earlier this year.
Grimes is a 96 graduate of A&M Consolidated High School and earned his Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from Texas A&M University in 2001. He also has a Masters of Education Administration from Sam Houston State University.