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https://cdn.scencyclopedia.org/sce/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/14141919/675px-Sylvias-restaurant1.jpg675900Restaurateur, author, businesswoman. Woods was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 2, 1926, the only child of Van and Julia Pressley. Her father died three days later, and Sylvia and her mother moved to Hemingway, South Carolina, to live with her maternal grandparents on their thirty-five-acre farm. It was here that Woods learned to […]