Mount Pleasant Magazine Nov/Dec 2019

59 www.MountPleasantMag a zine.com | www.BestOfMP.com | www.ReadMPM.com feature S parky Witte knows a different Mount Pleasant than most – one he knew as a boy in the 1950s. Get him talking about it and the conversation turns into an interesting game of “what was there before,” like the farm he worked on, riding a horse named Speckled Cloud before Creekside neighborhood was developed. Or working at Hardees (in the old Andolini’s on Coleman Boulevard) when a Coke, fries and a burger cost 50 cents. Witte is passionate about documenting our town through the years, and even documented the “unbuilding” of the Grace and Silas N. Pearman bridges. While the growth and changes in the town frustrate him, Mount Pleasant is in his blood, and he never plans to leave. “I love telling the story about growing up here to people who just moved here. I’ve never thought of not living here – smell that pluff mud? It’s home,” he grinned. www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.ILoveMountPleasant B stOfMP. Photo by Thomas Runion.