About the SC Books
	Clinton Junior College ISBN 0-7385-1729-1. 128 pages. 200 images from the college’s archives. Released Nov. 2004. This AME Zion supported institute and its students have survived the Great Depression, the World Wars and the Civil Rights Movement, and here’s how. All profits benefit the new Clinton Junior College Library designed by architect Harvey Gantt, former mayor of Charlotte, NC.
	Images of America: Pickens County, SC ISBN 0-7385-0606-0. 128 pages. A brief history with photos from the archives of the Pickens County Library, the South Caroliniana Library, Clemson University and Southern Wesleyan University to name a few. Read about the NFL Carolina Panthers. They played their first football games in Pickens County. WWII Southern journalist Ben Robertson wrote about this area in Red Hills and Cotton: An Upstate Memory (USC Press). If you’ve read Red Hills, you’ll probably enjoy this contemporary glimpse into this historical land that Robertson loved.
Piper Peters Aheron (seated) signs books at Ram Cat Alley in Seneca, SC.	Images of America: Greenville, SC (reissued 2003 ISBN 0-7385-1550-7) 128 pages. For people of all ages, this is the best nonfiction on the market about the City of Greenville. It makes a great study companion for Furman Writers Dorthy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina and Benny Lee Sinclair’s The Lynching. Many of the images are from Greenville Tech and Furman University. This visual history includes info about baseball legend “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, activist Jesse Jackson and scientist Albert Einstein. It also relays the facts surrounding the ghostly tales about Willie Earle’s murder.   Images of America: Oconee County, SC ISBN 0-7524-0895-X . If you’ve read Ron Rash’s novel One Foot In Eden (Henry Holt) or James Dickey’s classic Deliverance, then you’ll probably enjoy the true story about Oconee County’s development from 1868 to 1968.