It Began With “Six Praying Ladies”

It Began With “Six Praying Ladies”

by | Jan 28, 2023 | Eric Barnes

Concerned for the spiritual needs of Columbia’s mill workers and their families, Emily Dick (third from right) attended Moody Bible Institute in 1913 to better learn the Bible. Five years later she arrived back in Columbia, SC, where she and her circle of six praying...

1950s-1960s Baseball, Olympia, and Jerry Martin

by | Apr 21, 2020 | Eric Barnes

Jerry Martin grew up around the winning sports traditions of Olympia Mills. He graduated from Olympia High school in the late 1960s. He went on to play in the major leagues and make a career out of a game that most just enjoy as a past time. Jerry started in the big...

Corkball in Olympia

by | Jul 5, 2019 | Eric Barnes

“You take a regular size cork like you would have in a wine bottle and wrap it in masking tape. That is how you make a cork ball.” Jake Jaco pulls from his pocket one of the cork balls used in a tournament he put on in 1993 at his family’s bar, Jaco’s Corner. “It was...