Life Growing Up in a Small Textile Village in the 1940s and 1950s

Presented by Larry Candler

The textile mill communities in Upstate South Carolina were a tight knit community centered around working at the mill. Join us for a firsthand look at the realities of daily life in the 1940s and 1950s, bringing to life the sights, sounds, joys, and hardships of growing up in a the mill town.

Larry Candler grew in the small textile village of Lockhart, SC. Upon graduation from Clemson in 1963 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering, he and his wife moved to Huntsville, Alabama where he worked in the aerospace industry. He and his wife moved to Greenville in 1966 where he worked as a consulting engineer for 41 years. After he retired, he became a member of OLLI, the Furman learning community, where learning never stops. He has been an instructor in a wide variety of classes in the OLLI program.

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