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Latest Athenaeum Press book celebrates local photographer

The latest release by The Athenaeum Press of Coastal Carolina University, "The Wealth of Nothing: Rural Southern Life through the Lens of William Van Auken Greene," features the photographs, poetry and portraits created by a one-armed, itinerant photographer who lived and worked in Aynor and western Horry County in the 1930s and 1940s. A release celebration for the book was held Friday, March 27, at the Horry County Museum.