Quick Laps – The Rest of the Story
"Take a couple laps around Greenville-Pickens with Double Aught in his S550 Mercedes." Some call it premonition. Maybe fate. Maybe even the Hand of God. Whatever it was, The Old…
A Fast Blog About Quick Laps
Now, please, it's going to take me a while to get into the meat of this story. I have been thinking about it all afternoon, don't know how it is going…
Stumphouse Revisited… Again
Being an only child for almost 15 years, the son of a couple who was upwardly mobile, highly motivated people. I was quite used to being palmed off, handed off,…
Mad Dog!
It's been decades since I heard of, or thought of, a mad dog. Modern technology has fairly well wiped out mad dogs, and the threat of rabid animals roaming the…
Cat Scan
I originally wrote this for a Yarnspinner column back on Dec. 22, 1985, and with one small exception, it is still true to this very day. I will explain the…
After Dinner Speaking
For many years, while I was actively writing for the Greenville News, it wasn't unusual for groups to call wanting to find an after-dinner speaker. I would jump at the…
My Daddy Almost Played For Clemson
When my father, Jesse Reese Fant Jr., graduated from Pendleton High School, he suddenly found himself sort of spinning in space. He lived in LaFrance, SC, where the only possible…
Stumphouse Tunnel Revisited
I got to go on my first trip to visit Walhalla's Stumphouse Tunnel when I was about 10 years old. And I got to go because I was an only child.…