Abstract:
The author gives a description of events and activities at Christmas in Greenville in 1927. In 1927, the Merchants Association and Woman’s Club had a campaign to light up the city. The Merchants Association swung a string of colored lights across Evans Street at Five Points and in a few days other small strings of lights appeared on other blocks. The Christmas season was full of Community Christmas trees, cantatas, Concerts, special services, fireworks, Salvation Army girls with bells and Tuberculosis Christmas seals.