Contents of Ballantyne Magazine - SPRING 2012

Ballantyne Magazine covers news, events, real estate, restaurants, shopping, health, schools and business in the upscale Ballantyne Area of Charlotte, NC.

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were banned from baseball for throwing the 1919 World Series, despite acquittal in a court of law. This small museum tells how Jackson rose from laboring in the mills at age 16 to baseball fame. Arlene Marcley, museum president and founder, has spent years researching the baseball star in the hopes of reinstating him in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The museum, open Saturdays or by appointment, is free, relying on donations and sales in the gift shop.
Downtown Pleasures For a metro area its size (nearly a half million in Greenville County alone), Greenville manages to pack all the big-city amenities — top-rated hotels, inventive restaurants and unique shopping venues — into a small town with its attendant charm. You can check in downtown at the Westin Poinsett, Hyatt, Hampton Inn or Courtyard Marriott, and you're good to go all day and night. Top shopping picks include Mast General Store, a throwback with its barrels of penny
YES, MICE
ON MAIN! Children have a secret pleasure waiting on Greenville's Main Street. Inspired by Margaret Wise
Brown's book, "Goodnight Moon," eight permanent tiny bronze sculptures of mice are hidden along the nine-block stretch between the Hyatt Hotel and Westin Poinsett, waiting for youngsters to find them.
For helpful hints, visit www.miceonmain.com.
Visitors of all sizes enjoy "mouse hunts."
Devereaux creates culinary art with its grilled sea scallops.
White chocolate banana cream pie is favorite at Soby's.
NoseDive is a gastropub with wine on tap. It doubles as a late-night haunt.
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candy; Pedal Chic, which claims to be the only cycling and athletic boutique in the Southeast just for women; O.P. Taylor's, a toy fantasyland; Greenville Gemstone Mine, where you can buy natural wonders (including dinosaur dung!) and mine for gems
by the bucket; and Michelin on Main, the company's only trademark retail store in America selling merchandise emblazoned with Bibendum, the signature Michelin Man. An equal draw to arts and entertainment in Greenville is food. The city's dining
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