But that, too, is changing. Interior designer Anne Craig has been hired to unite cultural groups and see that they all operate under the Federal Building s gold leaf dome. The Center for the Arts will house the city s museum, community theater, chorales and visual artists. Craig calls the plan extremely ambitious and predicts it should be operating by 2005. But nothing happens without people, and that s Greenwood s biggest advantage, says Mayor Floyd Nicholson.
People really pull together.
When Hurricane Floyd came through, several churches here opened as shelters and restaurants donated food. Assistant principal at Northside Middle School, Nicholson likes to point out that his wife left Promised Land to marry him and live in Greenwood. Established in 1870 as a community for black freedmen, Promised Land is 10 miles from Greenwood proper.