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June First Friday draws about 1,500 visitors

GREENVILLE – A young girl in front of the courthouse was enjoying the attentions of five grandparents and great grandparents while across the street visitors were attracted to a steady ‘putt putt putt.’ “That’s my son-in-law over there,” said one gentleman. The putt putt machine was making ice cream.

Are you the genius behind that thing? Jim Boyer looked up. Paused, grinned… Then… “yep.” That ‘thing’ was an ice cream machine in front of A&B Coffee Shop drawing crowds of people on First Friday, June 6. The engine was his. “It had been sitting on a shelf for the last four years… never intended to do anything with it; just looked pretty.” His granddaughter, Amanda Hines, said they needed an ice freezer.

“So I had the Amish (in Holmes County) build one and bought it from them.” His grandson, Justin, was the Master Ice Cream Maker.

The ice cream machine was only one of multiple attractions throughout downtown Greenville Friday afternoon and evening. Tommy Renfro performed at Greenville Library’s Lunch on the Lawn; cuisine provided by Bistro Off Broadway. A performer in front of Sweet Annie’s was doing a set of Johnny Cash songs; another, in front of the Candy Bouquet, was doing John Denver’s Country Roads...

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