Mount Pleasant Magazine Jan/Feb 2018

108 www.MountPleasantAgents.com | www.MountPleasantBuilders.com | www.MountPleasantMagazine.com feature to go to work. His father was a schoolteacher, which freed up the summers for some good old-fashioned farming. His family lived on Mathis Ferry Road, which Royall will tell you “used to be the country.” They would grow rows and rows of vegetables, which they would then harvest, pack up and head out to peddle with his younger brother and some cousins, they would set up shop at the front of their Spartanburg neighborhood. And while making money was part of the business plan, it wasn’t necessarily at the top of the list when the partners are all under 10 years of age. “There were at least five of us out there having a good time, having fun more than anything,” he said. Insabella was very involved in athletics as he got older, and that more or less became his job. “My job was sports and staying out of trouble,” he remembered. Later, in high school, and then during summers in college, Insabella worked in a warehouse, shredding documents. “I was just straight working on the clock, manual labor at its best,” he said. After graduating from the University of South Carolina, Insabella relocated to Charleston in 2004 and began his career in banking, which is still his profession. John Royall Owner • Royall Ace Hardware For John Royall, summers of his youth didn’t mean time for carefree frolicking and fun. It meant it was time Photo courtesy of John Royall.