Walter Edgar's Journal
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Conversations on the Civil War - 1863: Mary Chesnut’s...
Julia Stern, professor of English and American Studies at Northwestern University and author of Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic, will "unpack the way in which at levels domestic, historical and epic, Chesnut's literary genius uniquely illuminated the greatest conflict of the American 19th century." Her conversation with Dr. Edgar was recorded before an audience at the University of South Carolina, part of the series Conversations on the Civil War, 1863, sponsored by USC's College of Arts and...
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Ellen Schlaefer - For the Love of Opera
Growing up in Columbia, Ellen Douglas Schlaefer never dreamed that she would one day direct operatic productions for some of the great opera companies around the world. But, she has. And now she brings her energy and talent to Opera at USC, one of only a handful of colleges and universities in the country that offer special training and practice for aspiring opera stage directors. Schlaefer is also the creator of the non-profit FBN Productions, which brings especially commissioned operas for...
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Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings of the...
Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings of the South from the Johnson Collection (Cane Ridge/USC Press, 2013) is a lavishly illustrated volume exploring romanticism in iconic Southern masterworks. Many of the artists under consideration in the book created works of art that have achieved iconic status in the annals of painting in the South, including William Dickinson Washington, William Thompson Russell Smith, Gustave Henry Mosler, Thomas Addison Richards, Joseph Rusling Meeker,...
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Conversations on the Civil War - 1863: The Fight for...
In the summer of 1863 three major campaigns occurred that affected the outcome of the Civil War. Two of three, Gettysburg and Vicksburg were dramatic turning points, while a third campaign directed against Charleston, South Carolina, proved instrumental for the Civil War but also future battles. The campaign introduced a new era of engineering and gunnery; it was a testing ground for African American troops and had a tremendous impact on life in Charleston and the Palmetto State. Dr. Stephen...
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Conversations on the Civil War - 1863: Vicksburg
Winston Groom, novelist and author of Forrest Gump, has also written a number of well received histories, including Vicksburg, 1863. This narrative history of the Civil Wars most strategically important campaign describes the bloody two-year grind that started when Ulysses S. Grant began taking a series of Confederate strongholds in 1861, climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg two years later. For Grant and the Union it was a crucial success that captured the Mississippi River, divided the...
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What is real Southern cooking?
Sunday at 4:00 on ETV Radio's News Stations(Originally broadcast 07/09/10) - Todays edition of The Journal is an encore of our 2010 preview of a Take on the South episode which aired on ETV in July. The question before the debaters that July, What is real Southern cooking?The Lee BrothersandJohn T. Edgeare our guests. Related content: Watch What is Real Southern Cooking? on PBS. See more from wrlk.
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Blake Gilpin: Selected Letters of William Styron
Dr. R. Blakeslee "Blake" Gilpin, Associate Professor of History at USC, Columbia, returns to the Journal to talk with Dr. Edgar about the life and work of Virginia author, William Styron. With Rose Styron, Gilpin edited the correspondence of Styron, Selected Letters of William Styron (Random House, December 2012). Collecting, transcribing, and notating Styron's letters has provided the foundation for two original projects related to the author and his work. Gilpin is currently writing a new...
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Upstate to Lowcountry: Art and History
In this episode of Walter Edgar's Journal we travel from the Upstate to the Lowcountry. Somehow, over the course of a successful, 40-year career as an Upstate attorney,Tim Greavesfound time to pursue his dream of becoming an artist. Greaves began art studies in 1994, working with a number of nationally-known artists. Hispaintings, include portraits, landscapes of all types, cityscapes, beach and hunting scenes, though, agruably his favorite work is to render the people and land of South...
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South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times
Dr. Marjorie Julian Spruill and Dr. Valinda W. Littlefield, of the Department of History at USC, along with Dr. Joan Marie Johnson, lecturer at Northeastern Illinois University, are co-editors of the three-volume series of books South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times. Spruill and Littlefield join Dr. Edgar to talk about the extraordinary women of our state, from Colonial times to the present. Previously on Walter Edgar's Journal:The Center for Women Previously on ETV's...
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Conversations on the Civil War - 1863: Gettysburg
Dr. Mark Smith,Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at USC, joins Dr. Edgar for the second of a series of public conversations, Conversations on the Civil War 1863, and sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences. Smith and Edgar explore how people, both soldiers and civilians, might have experienced the bloodiest battle of the Civil War: Gettysburg. Previously on Walter Edgar's Journal:The Civil War at 150 - Dr. James McPherson and Dr. Mark Smith
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Botanica Caroliniana: Patrick McMillan and Amy Blackwell
Botanica Caroliniana is an inter-institutional, inter-disciplinary collaborative project in research, teaching, and publication, that focuses on the botany of the Carolinas from their earliest exploration by Europeans to living plants under curation and in the wild today. Two of the principal researchers in the project, Patrick McMillan, Director of the South Carolina Botanical Garden at Clemson University; and Amy Hackney Blackwell, researcher in Plant and Environmental Science at Clemson...
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The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen
The Lee Brothers, Matt and Ted, were the first young food writers to bring a refreshingly real-life, ravenous voice to the rarefied Southern food coverage in The New York Times. But it was their first cookbook that put them on the map as writers to be reckoned with. The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook was a hit and won several awards in 2007, including a James Beard Awards, for Cookbook of the Year. Two years later the duo published another award-winning cookbook, Simple, Fresh, Southern. In...
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Baptized in Sweet Tea: Ken Burger
Ken Burger spent almost 40 years writing for two South Carolina newspapers, during a career that included stints covering sports, business, politics and life in the Palmetto State. Burgers new book, Baptized in Sweet Tea, is a collection of columns he has written for the Charleston Post Courier. As the title hints, the common thread running through the collection is Burgers southern-ness and, more specifically, his identity as a born-and-bred South Carolinian. While he may have been baptized...
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Conversations on the Civil War - 1863
This program offers the first of a series of public conversations at USC, Columbia, Conversations on the Civil War - 1863. The series features Dr. Edgar in conversation with scholars and authors, renowned for their works on the American Civil War. Our first guest, Dr. Thavolia Glymph, of Duke University, talks with him about the importance of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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The Unpainted South
The book The Unpainted South: Carolinas Vanishing World features the photographs of Selden B. Hill and the songs and poems of William P. Baldwin, both of McClellanville, S.C. A tribute to the faded glory of South Carolinas rural past, it features haunting images of abandoned farmhouses, leaning tobacco barns, and boarded up redbrick towns, combined with powerful verse. Baldwin and Hill talk with Dr. Edgar about the book, their exhibit at Patriot Halls Gallery 35 in Sumter, and their latest...
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The Education of Harvey Gantt
On January 28, 1963 a young black man named Harvey Gantt enrolled at Clemson College, becoming the first African American accepted to a white school in South Carolina. A new ETV documentary, The Education of Harvey Gantt, chronicles this pivotal story of desegregation in the South. The program, which airs February 7 at 8:00 p.m. on ETV, features interviews with Mr. Gantt, distinguished scholars and civil rights veterans, archival footage and carefully designed reenactments. Joining Dr. Edgar...
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The Search Committee: Tim Owens
In his novel, The Search Committee, Tim Owens presents an affectionate portrait of the people and places of eastern North Carolina. When a small North Carolina Presbyterian church east of I-95 needs a new pastor, the church does what churches do: they appoint a search committee. When this mismatched team of seven first hits the road in an Econoline church van, they don't agree on much other than the stops at Hardees for coffee and a biscuit. But they stick to the call, trying to slip...
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USC Lancaster: Native American Studies Center
USC Lancaster's new Native American Studies Center is opened in October, the only Native American Studies Program in the USC system. The center features 6000 sq feet of gallery space, an oral history recording studio, a Catawba language lab, an archive with photos, documents and recordings of SC tribes and an archaeology lab. It houses the world's largest collection of Catawba pottery. Dr. Stephen Criswell, the Director of the Center, and Dr. Chris Judge, Assistant Director, join Dr. Edgar...
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Nathalie Dupree: Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking
Nathalie Dupree, co-author of the new book, Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking, joins Dr. Edgar in a program recorded before a live audience. Dupree is the author of eleven cookbooks about the American South, entertaining, and basic cooking. She has hosted over 300 television shows on the Food Network, The Learning Channel andPBS. She has been a spokesperson for Wild American Shrimp, The Catfish Institute and many other organizations. She currently writes forThe Post and Courierin...
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The South in the 21st Century
Dr. Edgar is joined by John Shelton Reed, Jim Cobb, and Peter Applebome, three noted writers and observers of Southern culture and history, for a discussion of the necessary Southa region with an identity that began to be defined, in Colonial America, primarily by New Englanders. Who defines the South now? And how has its evolving identity changed the rest of the country over time? What will The South mean in the 21st century? Jim C. Cobb, the B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor in...
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John Martin Taylor: Hoppin’ John’s Lowcountry Cooking
At oyster roasts and fancy cotillions, in fish camps and cutting-edge restaurants, the people of South Carolina gather to enjoy one of America's most distinctive cuisines--the delicious, inventive fare of the Lowcountry. In the 25th anniversary edition of his classic, Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking, John MartinTaylor offers 250 authentic and updated recipes for regional favorites, including shrimp and grits, she-crab soup, pickled watermelon rinds, and Frogmore stew. Taylor, who grew up...
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Pam Stone: I Love Me a Turkey Butt Samich
Former actress and comedienne Pam Stone talks with Dr. Edgar about her new book, I Love Me a Turkey Butt Samwich: Finding a Farm Life after Hollywood, a collection of readers favorites from Pams syndicated column, "I'm Just Saying." Stone and her husband, Paul Zimmerman, owner of Ashdown Roses in Gowensville, moved in 1993 to Gowensville where she followed her passion and became a horse riding instructor. She previously toured as a stand-up comic, and was named in 1993 the Funniest Female...
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Willard Hirsch: Charleston Sculptor
Dr. Edgar and his guests look at the life and work of Charleston sculptor Willard Hirsch. An exhibition at the Gibbes Museum in Charleston, Willard Hirsch: Charleston Sculptor, examines the body of work Hirsch developed over the course of his fifty-year career. Taking part in the conversation are Sara Arnold, Curator of Collections at the Gibbes Museum, Jane Hirsch; Martha Severens, former Chief Curator at the Greenville County Museum of Art; and Jane Hirsch, Willard Hirschs daughter and...
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Michael Morris: Man in the Blue Moon
Author Michael Morris talks with Dr. Edgar about his new novel Man in the Blue Moon. Pat Conroy writes, Man in the Blue Moonis a beautifully wrought portrayal of small town southern life where poverty, tragedy and human love engage in a ritualistic dance.
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Dr. Harvey Jackson: The Rise and Decline of the Redneck...
In his book, The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera, Dr. Harvey H. Jackson III traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and early 1930s, when it was sparsely populated with "small fishing villages," through to the tragic and devastating BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. Jackson focuses on the stretch of coast from Mobile Bay and Gulf Shores, Alabama, east to Panama City, Floridaan area known as the "Redneck Riviera." Jackson...
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Dr. Blake Gilpin: Hopping Freight Trains
(Originally broadcast 08/24/12) -On his way to a degree at Yale University, Blake Gilpin, chose a unique approach in tackling his masters thesis. Riding the rails, illegally catching rides by hopping onto freight trains, much as the hobos of the early 20th century had done, he journeyed hundreds of miles, living the hobo life. He also kept a diary that eventually became his thesis. Now an assistant professor of history at USC in Columbia, he joins Dr. Edgar to recount some of his journeys...
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Rev. Dr. Ken Walden, Claflin Univeristy
Dr. Ken J. Walden is University Chaplain at Claflin University, in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Claflin University was founded in 1869 and is the oldest historically black college or university in the state of South Carolina. Dr. Walden comes to Claflin after spending a number of years serving as a United Methodist Pastor in the North Carolina Annual Conference, the Detroit Annual Conference, and the California Pacific Annual Conference He talks with Dr. Edgar about his journey as a pastor...
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Greg Johnsman: Geechee Boy Market and Mill
When Greg Johnsman and his wife Betsy moved from the Upstate in 2003 to an Edisto Island farm that had been in her family for generations, they began growing fruits and vegetables which the sold from their own roadside stand. It was 2007, though, when Greg took a big step toward fulfilling a dream to mill and sell his own freshly ground grits: he bought and restored a 1945 grist mill that had been stored in a barn for 40 years. Now, Geechee Boy Market and Mill mills about 2,000 pounds of...
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James Cobb: The South and America since WWII
In his new book, The South and America since WWII, James C. Cobb provides the first truly comprehensive history of the South since World War II, brilliantly capturing an era of dramatic change, both in the South and in its relationship with the rest of the nation. Here is a panoramic narrative that flows seamlessly from the Dixiecrats to the "southern strategy," to the South's domination of today's GOP, and from the national ascendance of southern culture and music, to a globalized Dixie's...
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A Plan to “Enlighten and Empower Gullah Geechee People...
The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commissions Management Plan, Enlighten and Empower Gullah Geechee People to Sustain the Culture, is completed and available for public review and comment. Ron Daise, Chair of the Commission; Michael Allen, Community Partnership Specialist, U.S. Park Service, join Dr. Edgar to talk about the plan, which represents an almost four-year planning effort on the part of the Commission, with input from the public, stakeholders, prospective partners, and...
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Jon Buchan: Code of the Forest
Jon Buchan, a First Amendment attorney and former newspaper political reporter, drew on his expert knowledge to produce Code of The Forest, a legal drama that, in the words of New York Times best-selling author Ron Rash, is nearly impossible to put down. An authoritative voice with an insiders understanding of Southern politics, Buchan takes readers into the courtrooms, newsrooms and political backrooms of the South Carolina Lowcountry in this tale of corruption and quest for human...
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The Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics,...
The Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics, and Public Leadership, named for former Governor of South Carolina and United States Secretary of Education Richard Riley, is a multi-faceted, non-partisan institute affiliated with the Department of Political Science at Furman University. The Institute is unique in the United States in the emphasis it places on engaging students in the various arenas of politics, public policy, and public leadership. Since its inauguration in 1999, the...
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South Carolina’s Virtual Library: DISCUS
DISCUS, South Carolinas Virtual Library is the information place for all South Carolinians. DISCUS, which stands for Digital Information for South Carolina USers, provides free access to an electronic library thats available 24/7. DISCUS provides a variety of organized resources, called databases, for individuals of all ages, educational levels and interests. The databases include professional journals, reference material, newspapers, maps, encyclopedias, magazines, multimedia, and e-books....
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Ric Burns: Death and the Civil War
With the coming of the Civil War, and the staggering casualties it ushered in, death entered the experience of the American people as it never had before--permanently altering the character of the republic and the psyche of the American people. On Tuesday, September 18th, at 9:00pm, ETV will air Ric Burns American Experience documentary Death and the Civil War. Burns joins Dr. Edgar to talk about the film, and the ways in which the Civil War forever changed how Americans deal with death....
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Messages from Home: the Art of Leo Twiggs
(Originally broadcast April 13, 2012) - This weeks guest is renowned artistLeo Twiggs. His new bookMessages from Home: the Art of Leo Twiggsbrushes a broad stroke over the 40-year career that has made Twiggs an internationally renowned name in the world of art. It is the first book to be published by the Claflin University Press, making the institution one of only two Historically Black Colleges and Universities to have their own publishing house. Twiggs tells Dr. Edgar that he sought to...
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Reading, Publishing, and Selling Books in S.C.
(Originally broadcast 12/09/11) - As the old slogan says, Reading is fundamental. However, with ever more numerous electronic media vying for our attention, reading is not always a priority for the average South Carolinian. Wanda Jewell and Curtis Rogers are working to change that through the South Carolina Center for the Book, a cooperative project of the South Carolina State Library, the University of South Carolinas School of Library and Information Science, and the Humanities Council SC....
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Camille 1969: Histories of a Hurricane
(Originally broadcast 07/19/11) - Thirty-four years ago, Hurricane Camille savaged the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In his book,Camille, 1969: Histories of a Hurricane,Dr. Mark Smithhas writtenthree highly original histories of the storms impact in southern Mississippi. Smithis a Carolina Distinguished Professor of History in USCs College of Arts and Humanities. He is also a leading expert on sensory history. He joins Dr. Edgar to talk about the book, and about sensory history.
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The Peach Bush Book Club: Flying Helicopters in Vietnam
(Originally broadcast 05/27/11) - Walter Edgar talks with Col. Walt Ledbetter and Duncan McCrae, veterans of the 263rd Marine Helicoptor Squadron. Their aim is to compile a history of their experiences in the Vietnam War in 1969-70. They share stories from some of the missions they flew. Ledbetter and McCrae are joined by Clint Chalmers, producer.
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Troy Nooe: Ocean Forest - Murder in Myrtle Beach
Frankie McKeller hates the beach. He has ever since that day on the one they called Omaha. If the guy who saved his life during the war wasnt getting married hed never have made the trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. As a low budget gum shoe out of Baltimore, he isnt prepared for a weekend of hobnobbing with the Southern elite. When a prominent wedding guest is found with a bullet to the brain, the six week course he took in private investigation proves lacking as well. Southern tradition...
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Renovating 701 Whaley in Columbia
Most people looked at the building at 701 Whaley St. as a crumbling eyesore. But developer Richard Burts saw much more. He tells Dr. Edgar he brought the historic structure back to life. Built in 1903 as the Granby and Pacific Mill village's company store, 701 Whaley, a 35,000 square-foot brick building in Columbia, S.C. has served many purposes. It quickly became a community center for the mill workers and everybody just called it "The Y." It included a bowling alley, library, auditorium,...
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Nathalie Dupree’s Southern Biscuits
(Originally broadcast 12/16/11) - Nathalie Dupree joins Dr. Edgar to talk about her new book, Southern Biscuits, co-authored by Cynthia Stevens Graubart. Dupree is the author of eleven cookbooks about the American South, entertaining, and basic cooking. She has hosted over 300 television shows on the Food Network, The Learning Channel and PBS. She has been a spokesperson for Wild American Shrimp, the Catfish Institute and many other organizations. She currently writes for The Post and...
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The Liberty Fellowship of S.C.
This week, Hayne Hipp and Dr. Benjamin Dunlap, founders of the Liberty Fellowship, join Dr. Edgar to talk about the Fellowship.In 2002 and 2003, Hipp and Dunlap began the process of creating theFellowship. The Fellowship seeks to promote outstanding leadership in South Carolina, empowering the state and its future leaders to realize their full potential. The Liberty Fellowship is less than a decade old, but its roots go back centuries to concepts of creating a just society. In 2012, Fellows,...
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Mary Alice Monroe: Beach House Memories
Lowcountry author Mary Alice Monroe talks with Dr. Edgar about her new novel, Beach House Memories. The novel is the third book in a series that began 10 years ago with Beach House. It's the poignant and emotional tale of Lovie Rutledge, a strong, passionate woman torn between duty and desire, between the traditions of the old South and the social changes that were sweeping America in 1974. For Lovie, it is an empowering journey of seasons of self-discovery.
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Man and Mission: Moffatt Burriss and the Crossing
Anderson native T. Moffatt Burriss is a WWII veteran and concentration camp liberator who also participated in the invasions of Sicily and Italy. During Operation Market Garden in Holland, he led the amphibious assault across the Waal River made famous in the movie, "A Bridge Too Far" Burriss is the subject of the upcoming ETV special Man and Mission: Moffatt Burriss and the Crossing (Monday, July 2, at 7:30pm on ETV). He joins Dr. Edgar, State newspaper reporter Jeff Wilkinson, and...
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Dorothea Benton Frank: Porch Lights
Dorothea Benton Frank joins Dr. Edgar to talk about her new novel.With Porch Lights, the New York Times bestselling author is back home in the Carolina Lowcountry, spinning a tale that brims with the warmth, charm, heart, and humor that has become her trademark. The novel is a stirring, emotionally rich, multigenerational storya poignant tale of life, love, and transformationas a nurse, returning to Sullivans Island from the Afghanistan War, finds her life has been irrevocably altered by...
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Piano Music During the Civil War Era
The American Civil War shaped every aspect of life in the South, including music. Along with songs and military band music published in the South during the war, a considerable repertoire of solo keyboard music also exists, written by white, black, male, and female composers. Dr. David B. Thompson, a professor of music at Limestone College in Gaffney, S.C., has created and gives performances of a program called Confederates at the Keyboard: Piano Music during the Civil War Era. Thompson...
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Common Sense and Whiskey: Modest Adventures Far from Home
(Originally broadcast 01/06/12) - Author Bill Murray and his wife Mirja live on a horse farm in the southern Appalachian mountains of Georgia, but they are seasoned world travelers. His book, Common Sense and Whiskey: Modest Adventures Far from Home, offers stories from their journeys to some distant places that are off the beaten path. He brings together tales of treks in Africa, Azerbaijan and the Arctic; headhunters and prayer flags; liars and thieves; evil spirits and atrocious food....
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Winston Groom: Shiloh, 1862
The Civil War saw some of the bitterest battles ever fought by American soldiers. According to Winston Groom, distinguished Civil War historian and author of the bestselling Forrest Gump, one battle set the stage for those to come. In his new book, Shiloh, 1862, Winston Groom gives a masterful account of the Battle of Shiloh, which marked a violent crossroads in the war. Winston Groom joins Dr. Edgar to talk about his new book, and about his career. Groom is the author of 15 previous books,...
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Julian Wiles. Playwright and Producing Artistic Director...
In early 1942, Navy Ensign Jack Kennedy and his current fling, Danish blond bombshell and suspected Nazi spy, Inga Arvad, planned a clandestine tryst at the Fort Sumter House Hotel in Charleston, S.C. Sogoes the plot for playwright Julian Wiles screwball comedy, Inga Binga, recently performed by Charleston Stage. Wiles, Founder and Producing Artistic Director of Charleston Stage, has written or adapted 27 original plays and musicals for the company, including Edgar Allen Poe, the Final...
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South Carolinians in WWII: Liberation
With about 184,000 South Carolinians serving in World War II, and thousands more who moved here after the war, ETV and The State newspaper partnered together to tell the stories of these veterans in their own words. The result is a new Emmy-nominated documentary series, South Carolinians in World War II. The series returns to ETV May 24 with its fourth episode, Liberation. Series co-creator John Rainey, producer Jeff Wilkinson and veteran Mickey Dorsey talk with Dr. Edgar about the program...
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Carolyn Hart: “Death Comes Silently”; William Cleveland...
Max and Annie Darling are back in Death Comes Silently, the 22nd mystery in Carolyn Harts Death on Demand series. Max and Annie live on the fictional island of Browards Rock, just off the coast of South Carolina, where they operate the mystery bookstore called Death on Demand. Carolyn Hart joins Dr. Edgar to talk about this latest book, the re-issue of one of her earliest novels, and the upcoming What the Cat Saw. And Walter will chat with William Cleveland and Tate Nation, two...
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Rich Williams May Have the World’s Strongest Grip
Since its 1989 beginning as The Arnold Classic, a one-day professional mens bodybuilding competition, The Arnold Sports Festival has grown to include 45 sports and events, including 11 Olympic sports. In March 2012, Columbian Rich Williams won first place in The Arnolds Mighty Mitts grip competition. Rich Williams talks with Dr. Edgar about training and competing. They are joined by Mighty Mitts Richard and Bert Sorin, of SorinexExcerise Equipment, Columbia. On YouTube: Rich Williams at...
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John’s Island Presbyterian Church - Three Centuries
First founded three centuries ago by British Dissenters and French Huguenots, Johns Island Presbyterian Church was built on a promise of religious freedom and tolerance offered by the South Carolina charter. The church is one of the oldest continuously active congregations of any denomination in North America, and it has survived multiple wars and the clash of different cultures to endure into the twenty-first century. Dr. Charles Raynal joins Dr. Edgar to talk about his new book Johns...
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Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations
Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations is a collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman. Written as Sunday feature stories for the Mobile Press-Register with additional pieces from the New York Times, Preservation, and Garden Gun, these profiles preserve the individual storiesand the individual voices within the storiesthat help to define one of the most distinctive states in the union. Roy...
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Messages from Home: The Art of Leo Twiggs
This weeks guest is renowned artist Leo Twiggs. His new book Messages from Home: The Art of Leo Twiggs brushes a broad stroke over the 40-year career that has made Twiggs an internationally renowned name in the world of art. It is the first book to be published by the Claflin University Press, making the institution one of only two Historically Black Colleges and Universities to have their own publishing outfit. Twiggs tells Dr. Edgar that he sought to make the book itself an artistic...
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Carolina Planters on the Alabama Frontiers
Edward Pattillo's book Carolina Planters on the Alabama Frontier: The Spencer-Robeson-McKenzie Family Papers collects the papers of Elihu Spencer, a fourth-generation New Englander, and his family and Southern decedents, to form a history of the American nation from the point of view of planters and those they held in slavery. The documents in this volume are accounts of a privileged world that was afflicted by constant loss and despair. The papers together form a dramatic narrative of...
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American College of the Building Arts - A “Hero of the...
In its March 2012 issue, Southern Living magazine selected Charleston, South Carolinas, American College of the Building Arts as one of the first recipients of its Heroes of the New South award. The school was named in the category of Architecture. "In a time when we are returning to the values of craftsmanship, this college is leading the way, says Heroes juror Jim Strickland. Their graduates are continuing crafts that we once feared would be lost. The American College of the Building...
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The Art of Alfred Hutty: Woodstock to Charleston
The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston has created a retrospective exhibition entitled The Art of Alfred Hutty: Woodstock to Charleston. Hutty is of one of the principal artists of the Charleston Renaissance of the early 20th century, and the exhibition features over50 works in oil, watercolor, pastel, and most importantly, his exquisite prints created in Charleston and Woodstock, New York. Gibbes Curator of Collections Sara Arnold, author and scholar Harlan Greene, and collector Edith...
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Revitalizing the Grounds of the Hampton-Preston Mansion...
A four-acre garden once graced the grounds of the Hampton-Preston Mansion, and was a destination for travelers beginning in the 1840s. The gardens were destroyed by 1947 to clear the block for commercial development. Historic Columbia Foundation has broken ground on a 3-phase, multi-year garden revitalization project. Included in the first phase will be installation of new irrigation, pathways, edging, lighting, as well as new plantings selected from plants available prior to 1865, in...
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A History of Kershaw County
(Originally broadcast 05/06/11) Joan A. Inabinet and L. Glen Inabinet join Dr. Edgar to talk about their new book, A History of Kershaw County, and to share insightful tales of the region's inhabitants through defining historical moments. Their historyis a much-anticipated, comprehensive narrative describing a South Carolina community rooted in strong local traditions. From prehistoric to present times, the history spans Native American dwellers through the county's major roles in the...
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Troxler’s Truckers: Vietnam Memories
In 1968, the 319th Transportation Company, an Army Reserve unit, was sent to fight in the Vietnam War. The unit drew most of its members from the Augusta, Georgia/Aiken, S.C. area. During their 11 month tour of duty, they drove their trucks over one million miles, delivering ammunition, supplies, and soldiers to bases around South Vietnam. They called themselves Troxler's Truckers, after their commanding officer. Two of Troxlers Truckers, Arthur Beaufort and Wallace Zealy, talk with Dr....
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Voices of Our Ancestors
As language development reflects historical development, linguistics can also serve as an avenue of inquiry into South Carolina's social history from the epoch of Native American primacy to the present day. In her book Voices of Our Ancestors: Language Contact in Early South Carolina, linguist and author Patricia C. Nichols pays particular attention to the development of the Gullah language among the coastal African American peoples and the ways in which this languageand others of South...
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Preserving the Roadside Stands of Sweetgrass...
The U.S. Highway 17 widening project in Mount Pleasant affects the heart of the traditional sweetgrass basket-making community in South Carolina, and is part of the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, a National Heritage Area, which extends from Wilmington, North Carolina to St. Augustine, Florida. Working with a number of partners, the town of Mount Pleasant has created a plan to minimize the impact of widening U.S. 17 on the basket- makers roadside stands, many of which have been in...
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Saving History: The Prosperity Train Depot
The town of Prosperity, along with the Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation, rededicated the historic Prosperity Depot on October 8, 2011. Originally built during the 1920s as a railroad passenger terminal for Prosperity, the depot served the town until 1971. The rededication took place 40 years to the dayafter the closing. A.M.E. Church Bishop Frank James (retired) took part in the ceremony, reflecting on the erain whichhe waited to take the passenger train in the depot's...
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Walter Edgar’s Journal: Jason Scott Luck,...
Beginning with William Luck in the 19th century, the Luck family has continued the time-honored techniques of wheel-thrown pottery for six generations.Jason Scott Luck is a member of the latest generation of accomplished potters in the family. Jason, an attorney, turns pottery when he's home in Seagrove, N.C., and at various art facilities in Charleston where he works. He joins Dr. Edgar to talk about creating wheel-thrown pottery. The pottery that Jason brought to the studio Some more of...
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The evolution of the S.C. Republican Presidential...
The presidential primary season is in full swing, with South Carolinas Republican Presidential Preference Primary coming up Saturday, January 21. South Carolinas presidential primaries have proven important to presidential nominees of both major parties. This is particularly true for the Republican contenders. State Senator John Courson has been active in Republican politics for over thirty years and was one of the organizers of the first SC Republican Presidential primary, in 1980. He joins...
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Common Sense and Whiskey: Modest Adventures Far from Home
Author Bill Murray (bill@commonsenseandwhiskey.com) and his wife Mirja live on a horse farm in the southern Appalachian mountains of Georgia, but they are seasoned world travelers. His book, Common Sense and Whiskey: Modest Adventures Far from Home, offers stories from their journeys to some distant places that are off the beaten path. He brings together tales of treks in Africa, Azerbaijan and the Arctic; headhunters and prayer flags, liars and thieves, evil spirits and atrocious food. From...
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Covering the World
(Originally broadcast 04/08/11) - Over the past three decades, Columbia native Don Belt has traveled to 65 countries, working as a writer and editor of articles for National Geographic magazine. Along the way, he has covered the defining issues of our time, such as environmental degradation, vanishing cultures, Islam and the West, the effects of global climate change and the geopolitical trends that are shaping our world. As senior editor of National Geographic from 1998 to 2010, he helped...
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Restoring the American Chestnut
(Originally broadcast 04/22/11) - The American chestnut was once one of the most important trees in the eastern United States, occupying about 25 percent of the hardwood canopy in eastern forests. By the early 1950s, the tree was virtually eliminated by an exotic fungus from Asia, called the chestnut blight. The U.S. Forest Service, The American Chestnut Foundation, and the University of Tennessee have been conducting research and tests to produce a blight-resistant American chestnut, with...
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Nathalie Dupree’s Southern Biscuits
Nathalie Dupree joins Dr. Edgar to talk about her new book, Southern Biscuits, co-authored by Cynthia Stevens Graubart. Dupree is the author of eleven cookbooks about the American South, entertaining, and basic cooking. She has hosted over 300 television shows on the Food Network, The Learning Channel and PBS. She has been a spokesperson for Wild American Shrimp, The Catfish Institute and many other organizations. She currently writes for The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., as well as...
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South Carolina’s Literary Culture
As the old slogan says, Reading is fundamental. However, with ever more numerous electronic media vying for our attention, reading is not always a priority for the average South Carolinian. Wanda Jewell and Curtis Rogers are working to change that through the South Carolina Center for the Book, a cooperative project of the South Carolina State Library, the University of South Carolinas School of Library and Information Science, and the Humanities Council SC. They join Dr. Edgar to talk about...
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Protecting the Cowasee Basin
Billy Cate and John Cely, Land Protection Director of the Congaree Land Trust, talk with Dr. Edgar about the Trust and its Focus Area in the Cowasee Basin. The Trust is currently working on conservation easements totaling 3,700 acres, of which 700 acres are in the Basin area.
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Kirk H. Neely: Santa Almost Got Caught
Author Kirk H. Neely joins Dr. Edgar in a special Journal, recorded at ETV Radio before a live audience, to talk about his collection of holiday stories, Santa Almost Got Caught: Stories for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year. Guiding us through the holiday season from Thanksgiving through Epiphany, Neely takes us into the woods in search of the perfect red cedar Christmas tree. Hell remind us of the real reason sweet potatoes were part of holiday meals. In this long-anticipated...
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South Carolina’s Supreme Court Rules to Protect Isolated...
Dr. Edgar and his guests take a look at wetlandswhat they are and why they are so ecologically important, focusing particularly on a recent ruling by the S.C. Supreme Court extending legal protection to isolated wetlands. The suit was filed over a 0.332-acre lot in Pawleys Island, 0.19 acres of which is an isolated wetland, meaning it does not have a direct connection to other waters or wetlands. Such wetlands were previously ruled outside of the Department of Health and Environmental...
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Bernardin
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the death of Columbia native Joseph Bernardin, who rose to the position of Cardinal in the American Catholic Church. Around the ethical/moral life issues facing society, Bernardin advocated a "consistent ethic of life" and later initiated a project of reconciliation called "Common Ground," a healing legacy that transcends ideological boundaries. The documentary, Bernardin, (airing statewide on Sunday, Nov. 13, at 5:00 p.m. on ETV and at 9:00 p.m. on...
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South Carolinians in WWII: A Path to Victory
About 184,000 South Carolinians served in World War II, and thousands more, who moved here after the war. ETV and The State newspaper partnered together to tell the stories of these veterans in their own words. The result is a new Emmy-nominated documentary series, South Carolinians in World War II. The series returns in November with its final episode, A Path to Victory. Executive Producer John Rainey, Co-Producer Jeff Wilkinson, and two veterans featured in the series--Dr. Jack Keith and...
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E.J. Dionne, Washington Post syndicated columnist
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post syndicated columnist and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is familiar to ETV Radio listeners from his appearances as a news analyst and commentator on NPRs All Things Considered. Dionne is coming to USC in Columbia, to speak as part of the Cardinal Bernardin Lectureship in Ethical, Moral, and Religious Studies. His topic will be, "Reweaving the Seamless Garment: Cardinal Bernadin's Living Legacy to American Public Life." Dionne and Dr. Edgar will...
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William W. Starr: Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness...
Dr. Edgar has a lively conversation with William W. Starr, author of Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster, a twenty-first-century literary pilgrimage to retrace the famous 1773 Scottish journey of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, two of the most celebrated writers of their day. Starr enlivens this crisply written travelogue with a playful wit, an enthusiasm for all things Scottish, the boon and burden of American sensibility, and an ardent appreciation for Boswell and Johnsonwho make...
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October Pledge Special
It's time again for our Fall Membership Drive. Show your support for Walter Edgar's Journal by calling in your pledge of financial support at 1-800-256-8535. You can also pledge on-line! This episode of the journal features clips from three of our favorite episodes from the last year: "Marine helicopter crews in the Vietnam War," "Remembering two SC Revolutionary War heroes," and "Benjamin Dunlap: a life in higher education."
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Found: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War photo albums
Mary Chesnuts diary, originally published forty years after the Civil War as Mary Chesnuts Civil War, is generally acknowledged today as the finest literary work of the Confederacy. Spiced by the author's sharp intelligence, irreverent wit, and keen sense of irony and metaphorical vision, it uses a diary format to evoke a full, accurate picture of the South in civil war. Her words, however, were originally complemented by three personal photograph albums that were filled with annotated...
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Mercy Creek
Matt Matthews, pastor at St. Giles Presbyterian Church in Greenville, SC, joins Dr. Edgar to talk about his first novel, Mercy Creek, winner of the South Carolina Arts Commission First Novel Prize. On his first day out of school, 16 year-old Isaac doesn't feel that events of June in a town on Virginia's Eastern Shore could threaten his life or even change it. But there are signs. By the middle of a sultry July, Isaac has discovered that small towns in which everybody knows everybody else's...
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Linda O’Bryon, President CEO of SC ETV
Linda OBryon began her work as President and CEO of ETV in December of 2010. She talks with Dr. Edgar about her career in public broadcasting and about her work at ETV. They also look at the opportunities and challenges in ETVs future, as well as ETV Radios move to its new studios in October. Linda O'Bryon has previously served as Chief Content Officer at KQED/Northern California Public Broadcasting in San Francisco. She is also the founding executive editor of PBS' Nightly Business Report...
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Fr. Lyndon Harris: after 9/11
Fr. Lyndon Harris was the Priest in Charge of St. Paul's Episcopal Chapel across from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He talks with Dr. Edgar about the extraordinary ministry begun at St. Pauls on 9/12 and about his current work with Gardens of Forgiveness. An exhibition at the Cherokee County History and Arts Museum through September 17th, Eyewitnesses to 9/11: From Tragedy to Transformation, brings together artifacts, art, and photos from St. Pauls to tell the story.
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The Republican Primary
How important is South Carolinas first-in-the-South Republican Primary in the 2012 presidential election? To discuss the question, Dr. Edgar is joined by James Hammond, Editor of the Columbia Regional Business Report; Peter Applebome, NY Times writer and author of Dixie Rising; and Dr. James Guth, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science at Furman University. Note: this program was recorded on Tuesday, August 30, 2011.
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City of Heroes: The Great Charleston Earthquake of 1886
(Originally broadcast 03/02/07) -- On this 125th anniversary of the Charleston earthquake of 1886, the Journal offers an encore presentation of an episode with author Richard Ct. His book, City of Heroes: The Great Charleston Earthquake of 1886, is an action-packed, heavily illustrated, non-fiction book filled with gripping, first-hand accounts of the earthquake, drawn directly from the personal diaries, journals, and letters of survivors and from the daily newspapers. It also presents the...
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Remembering two SC Revolutionary War heroes
In 1887, The US Army Corps of Engineers chose Brigadier General Francis Marion, The Swamp Fox, for the honors when they named Marion Park, which sits on South Carolina Avenue, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., and is one of four Capitol Hill East National Parks. Over a century-and-a-score years later the Palmetto Conservation Foundation is leading the effort to place a monument in Marions name in the park. President Obama and signed the enabling legislation for the monument into law on...
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The Hunley, 10 years later
(Originally broadcast 12/03/10) The study and conservation of the Confederate submarine Hunley took a major step forward in June, 2011, when conservationists rotated the vessel, in its salt-water tank, into an upright position for the first time since it sank in 1864. The Hunley and its crew had vanished after becoming the first submarine to successfully sink another warship, the USS Husatonic. To mark this milestone we are revisiting a Journal episode with Senator Glen McConnell, Chairman...
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Mary Chestnut’s Civil War Epic
(Originally broadcast 04/30/10) - A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis's inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut's death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated literary history and the questions that attend itwhich...
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Camille, 1969: Histories of a Hurricane
Dr. Mark Smith is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of History in USCs College of Arts and Humanities. He is also a leading expert on sensory history. His new book, Camille, 1969: Histories of a Hurricane, contains three highly original histories of the storms impact in southern Mississippi. He joins Dr. Edgar to talk about the book, and about sensory history.
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The Revitalization of downtown Greenville, SC
(Originally broadcast 12/10/10) - Greenville's downtown began to languish in the 1960s, as shopping centers lured the major retailers to the suburbs. Downtown was left with countless vacant buildings and no people. Greenville faced what other cities faced, a dying downtown in the midst of a growing region. To meet the challenge, Greenville embarked on "downtown redevelopment," remaking Main Street and creating an atmosphere conducive to office, residential, specialty retail, entertainment...
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Banktown: The Rise and Struggles of Charlotte’s Big Banks
Dr. Edgar welcomes Rick Rothacker, a journalist whohas written about Bank of America and Wachovia for the Charlotte Observer since 2001. Banktown: The Rise and Struggles of Charlotte's Big Banks covers everything from the brash CEOs that built these banks into national giants to the near collapse of Wachovia in 2008 to the government rescue of Bank of America.
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Horse Creek Valley… A Tale Worth Telling
The documentary, Horse Creek Valley... A Tale worth the Telling, premiered June 9 at a gala event at Aiken County Historical Museum. It will be broadcast July of 2011 on ETV. Producer/Director Christi Koelker, James Levy, Executive Director of the Aiken County Historical Society, and Dr. Chester DePratter, a USC anthropologist, will tell Dr. Edgar about the fascinating history of the region.
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Take on the South: What is real Southern cooking?
(Originally broadcast 07/09/10) - Todays edition of The Journal is an encore of our 2010 preview of a Take on the South episode which aired on ETV in July. The question before the debaters July, What is real Southern cooking?
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The Dogs of War
Dr. Emory Thomas, the Regents Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Georgia, joins Dr. Edgar for a discussion of the Civil War in this 150th year anniversary of its beginning. Thomas has served as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer and is author of numerous books including The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience; Confederate State of Richmond: a Biography of the Capital; The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865; and Bold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B. Stuart. His biography of Robert E. Lee...
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The Civil War at 150 - Dr. James McPherson Dr. Mark Smith
Dr. James McPherson, professor emeritus of American History at Princeton University, won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, which has since sold more than six hundred thousand copies. His success with Battle Cry of Freedom and other Civil War publications are considered to have paved the way for the success of the films Glory and Gettysburg and the television documentary The Civil War by Ken Burns. In April 2011 McPherson presented lecture Inheriting the Wind: American Youth...
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Mary Alice Monroe: The Butterfly’s Daughter
South Carolina author Mary Alice Monroe joins Dr. Edgar to talk about her newest novel, The Butterflys Daughter.
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Marine helicopter crews in the Vietnam War
Walter Edgar talks with Col. Walt Ledbetter and Duncan McCrae, Vietnam veterans, and Clint Chalmers, video producer, about their experiences as Marines flying helicopters in 1969-70. They also tell us about an oral history they are making about their wartime experiences.
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South Carolinians in WWII: a New Front
184,000 South Carolinians served in World War II. South Carolinians in WWII is ETVs 3-part series that tells the story of some of these veterans. Series co-executive producer John Rainey and producer/director Jeff Wilkinson will join Dr. Edgar to talk tell some of the extraordinary stories of South Carolinians in World War II and talk about the series second episode. A New Front covers the period from Italys Monte Cassino to D-Day as well as the buildup in Britain, doctors and nurses, and...
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Take on the South: What influence has the South had on...
Dr. Edgar is joined by two Dr. William Ferris, Senior Associate Director, Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Dr. Bill Malone, Professor Emeritus at Tulane University to discuss the roots of American music and its influence on music world wide. Was the beginning of truly American music the advent of the blues, country or a mixture of both? The discussion is a preview of the debate to take place in the next installment of ETVs Take on the...
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A History of Kershaw County
Joan A. Inabinet and L. Glen Inabinet join Dr. Edgar to talk about their new book, A History of Kershaw County, and to share insightful tales of the region's inhabitants through defining historical moments. Their Historyis a much anticipated, comprehensive narrative describing a South Carolina community rooted in strong local traditions. From prehistoric to present times, the history spans Native American dwellers through the county's major roles in the American Revolution and Civil War, to...
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Benjamin Dunlap: a life in higher education
Dr. Benjamin Dunlap, President of Wofford College, joins Dr. Edgar for a lively and wide ranging conversation about his lifelong dedication to the field of higher education. Dunlap is a Columbia native who graduated summa cum laude from Sewanee: The University of the South. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard University as a graduate student, receiving his Ph.D. in English Language and Literature in 1967. From that year until 1993, he held academic appointments at...
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Bringing back the American Chestnut tree
The American chestnut was once one of the most important trees in the eastern United States, occupying about 25 percent of the hardwood canopy in eastern forests. By the early 1950s, the tree was virtually eliminated by an exotic fungus from Asia, called the chestnut blight. The U.S. Forest Service, The American Chestnut Foundation, and the University of Tennessee have been conducting research and tests to produce a blight-resistant American chestnut, with aspirations of restoring the...
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Commemorating the sesquicentennial of the American Civil...
On April 21st, at 7:00pm, ETVs The Big Picture will devote a full hour to a discussion of South Carolinas commemoration of the Civil Wars sesquicentennial. The participants represent the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the NAACP, the National Park Service, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Fort Moultrie/Fort Sumter Trust, the SC Civil War Sesquicentennial Advisory Board,the SC Department of Archives and History, and the SC African American Heritage Commission. Big Picture host Mark...
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Covering the world
Over the past three decades, Columbia native Don Belt has traveled to 65 countries, working as a writer and editor of articles for National Geographic magazine. Along the way, he has covered the defining issues of our time, such as environmental degradation, vanishing cultures, Islam and the West, the effects of global climate change and the geopolitical trends that are shaping our world. As senior editor of National Geographic from 1998 to 2010, he helped to guide the magazines coverage of...
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Family Meeting
Author Miles DeMott joins Dr. Edgar to talk about his new novel, Family Meeting. The novel revolves around the Camber familyone of the oldest and most respected families in a city known for old and respected familiesand their plans to sell Plantation Trust, the bank that cemented their fortune and made their name a household word. Although their lives seem to have been lived in full public view, this intensely private family is rife with secrets and scandals that could derail the sale and...
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Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old...
(originally broadcast 10/15/10) - Professor Lacy K. Ford joins Dr. Edgar for a conversation about Lacys latest book, Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South (Oxford University Press, 2009). Lacy is the former Chair of the Department of History at USC in Columbia and has written numerous books and articles about the South. Deliver Us From Evil has received critical claim. One historian called it the most detailed and penetrating analysis of the ideology and public policy...
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The Charleston Green Committee
The Charleston Green Committee (CGC) is comprised of 24 business, academic, nonprofit and government leaders who are advising the City of Charleston in the creation of a local action plan for climate protection and sustainability. The committee is supported by scores of volunteers and the Citys Staff Green Team. James Meadors, Jenny Humphries, and Dennis Knight join Dr. Edgar to talk about CGC's the Plan for Climate Protection and Sustainability for the City of Charleston.
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Envirodwell, re-using shipping containers to create...
Envirodwell uses existing steel shipping containers as the core of their homes and buildings. Jim Copland and Bob Probst join Dr. Edgar about the greenness and usefulness to this approach.
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Envirodwell, re-using shipping containers to create...
Envirodwell uses existing steel shipping containers as the core of their homes and buildings. Jim Copland and Bob Probst join Dr. Edgar about the greenness and usefulness to this approach.
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Lemon Swamp and South Carolina’s French Connection
(Originally broadcast 04/20/07) Published in 1983, Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir is the work of Mamie Garvin Fields and her granddaughter, Dr. Karen Fields. The book recounts the "stories," or memoirs, of the life of Mamie Fields, who was born in 1888. The book has been described as a blend of "the scholarly with the personal, addressing the tensions between family and professional loyalties to produce a work meaningful in both spheres." A Distinguished Visiting Professor...
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Gullah/Geechee Heritage Corridor update
Designated by Congress in 2006, the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor extends from Wilmington, N.C. to Jacksonville, Fl. It is home to one of America's unique cultures, a tradition first shaped by captive Africans brought to the southern United States from West Africa and continued in later generations by their descendents. Emory S. Campbell, Chairman of the Corridor Commission, and Michael Allen, of the National Parks Service, join Dr. Edgar to talk about the ongoing journey of...
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SC African American Commission and the 150th anniverary...
December marked the 150th anniversary of South Carolinas secession from the United States and the beginning of the American Civil War. Many events across the state will commemorate the anniversary, and many will explore the history and causes of the war. The SC African American Heritage Commission plans to participate in a manner that will help present a complete picture of a history that is shared by both blacks and whites. Joining Dr. Edgar to talk about the Commissions plans and the wider...
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Still in Print: the Southern Novel Today
Dr. Edgars guest is Prof. Jan Nordby Gretlund, Chair of the English Department at the Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark. Their topic is a new book of essays edited by Gretlund, Still in Print: the Southern Novel Today. In a lively conversation the two also take a look at the interest in Southern studies in Europe and the popularity around the world of literature from the American South.
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The Center for Women
The Center for Women in Charleston says of their mission: Our Job: To Help Women Build Better Lives for Themselves. The only comprehensive women's development center in South Carolina, the Center for Women (C4W) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to make personal and professional success an everyday event for women in the Lowcountry. Jennet Robinson Alterman, the Centers Director, joins Dr. Edgar to talk about the Centers mission.
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Late Rain, a novel by Lynn Kostoff
In Lynn Kostoffs novel, Late Rain, Corrine Tedros is a Lady Macbeth wannabe who sets in motion the murder of her uncle-in-law (a soft-drink mogul). Her plans go awry when the murder is witnessed by a senior citizen in the late stages of Alzheimers. Things are complicated by the fact that the daughter of the man with Alzheimers is involved with a former homicide detective who has resigned and moved South in an attempt to reshape and simplify his life. Decovic starts to make connections in the...
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The Economic Impact of Boeing in SC
A 2010 economic impact report estimates that once North Charleston's new Boeing plant is up and operating it will add around $6 billion a year to the state's economy and will also generate close to $3 billion in state tax revenues. The report's author, Columbia economist Harry Miley of Miley Associates, joins Dr. Edgar for a closer look at the plants impact and at economic development in South Carolina.
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Charles Joyner: Down by the Riverside
Originally broadcast 03/26/10) - In Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community, Charles Joyner (Burroughs Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University) takes readers on a journey back in time, up the Waccamaw River through the Lowcountry of South Carolina, past abandoned rice fields once made productive by the labor of enslaved Africans, past rice mills and forest clearings into the antebellum world of All Saints Parish. In this...
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Comfort and Joy
(Originally broadcast 12/25/2009) - Kirk H. Neelys Comfort and JoyNine Christmas Stories, tells of the redemptive power of Christmas, harkening back to O. Henrys The Gift of the Magi. Along the way, he introduces us to Sara Williams, a young woman who carries on the family legacy of sweetgrass basket making but whose life has gone off track into drugs and prostitution. The story Joes Tree, follows a Christmas tree on a miraculous journey from a childs grave to a frat house to a childrens...
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The American College of the Building Arts
The American College of the Building Arts educates and trains artisans in the traditional building arts to foster craftsmanship and encourage the preservation, enrichment, and understanding of the world's architectural heritage through a liberal arts education. Founder and Campaign Director, John Paul Huguley joins Walter to talk about the schools history and mission.
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Revitalizing Greenville, SC
Greenville's downtown began to languish in the 1960s, as shopping centers lured the major retailers to the suburbs. Downtown was left with countless vacant buildings and no people. Greenville faced what other cities faced, a dying downtown in the midst of a growing region. To meet the challenge, Greenville embarked on "downtown redevelopment," remaking Main Street and creating an atmosphere conducive to office, residential, specialty retail, entertainment and the arts. Downtown Greenvilles...
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The Hunley, ten years later
The Confederate submarine Hunley was the first submarine to successfully sink another warship (the USS Husatonic.) Then it vanished, taking with it all its crew. The sub was raised from the floor of Charleston Harbor in the spring of 2000. It was eventually moved to a salt-water tank in a laboratory for study and preservation. Dr. Maria Jacobsen, chief archaeologist for the project, and Senator Glen McConnell tell us some of the surprising discoveries made in the ten years since the sub was...
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Preserving our architectural heritage
The Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation offers as its mission statement, Dedicated to preserving and protecting the irreplaceable architectural heritage of South Carolina. Executive Director Mike Bedenbaugh talks with Walter about how the Trust achieves its mission and about its latest projects.
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Home House Press
Home House Press was founded in early 2010 to publish and distribute books about the rich history of South Carolina. Its purpose is to print fresh and improved editions of important works that are no longer in print, and also to publish new books by modern authors that will further enhance the knowledge and understanding of our state.The Press first publications included The Shaftesbury Papers, a volume containing important documents related to the settlement of Carolina in 1670 and the...
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Take on the South: NASCAR or Football?
Dr. Edgar hosts as Dr. Daniel Pierce, Author and Chair of the History Department at University of North Carolina, Asheville, and Dr. Harvey Hardy Jackson III, Author and Eminent Scholar in History, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL will debate What is the most important southern sport, NASCAR or football? Be sure to vote for you favorite sport at www.scetv.org
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ETV Radio celebrates 10 years of Walter Edgar’s Journal
Its hard to believe, but, Walter Edgars Journal is celebrating its 10th birthday this year! Reporter Carolyn Click, of The State newspaper, hosts the program and talks with her guest, Walter Edgar, about the shows first decade. Clips from the last decade include guests such as author Ron Rash, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Perry, and the Lee brothers. We are having a technical problem with this podcast.
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Army Corps of Engineers
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operates a regulatory program which is responsible for protecting the integrity of our nation's aquatic resources while allowing reasonable development through fair, flexible and balanced permit decisions. Lt. Col. Jason Kirk, District Engineer for the Corps, and Dr. Richard Darden, Project Manager for Special Projects, will talk with Dr. Edgar about the program and its efforts to foster sustainable development, about the dredging of Charleston Harbor, and...
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Journeys on the Grassy River
Poet, publisher, and graphic designer Sheri Lohr is a Californian who fell in love the Florida Keys and the Everglades and then decided to make Key West her home. Journeys on the Grassy River is collection of her poems about the Everglades, written over ten years of visiting and camping in Everglades National Park and other wilderness areas in south Florida and the Florida Keys. She talks with Dr. Edgar about her poetry and about the mysterious beauty of this unique landscape and web of...
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Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old...
Professor Lacy K. Ford joins Dr. Edgar for a conversation about Lacys latest book, Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South. Lacy is Chair of the Department of History at USC in Columbia and has written numerous books and articles about the South. Deliver Us From Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South (Oxford University Press, 2009) has received critical claim. One historian called it the most detailed and penetrating analysis of the ideology and public policy of...
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New life for the Parker Mill in Greenville’s Textile...
Jim Hammond is Editor of GSA Business, the biweekly newspaper serving senior level business decision-makers in the upstate region of SC. He and Josh Parker, a Durham, NC, developer, talk with Dr. Edgar about plans to renovate Woodside Mill, just outside Greenville, once the worlds largest cotton mill.Parkers aim is to breathe new life into Greenvilles struggling Textile Crescent with a plan to redevelop the 500,000 square feet of factory space into a multi-use community that includes 260...
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Artist Mark E. Flowers
Mark E. Flowers earned his BFA in Studio Arts from The University of South Carolina in 1977 and his MFA in Painting from Western Michigan University in1979. Following his academic career, he has exhibited his work throughout the United States and in Europe. His art teaching career parallels his art making. He has taught art at the secondary and postsecondary levels for more than 27 years. While he has been a teacher of art, he has also chaired two fine arts departments and one painting...
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Southern Fried mystery novels
Cathy Pickens has been, under different names, a lawyer, a business professor, a university provost, a clog-dancing coach, a church organist / choir director, and a typist. The most profound influences on her life have been her family, her faith, Nancy Drew, and Perry Mason. She grew up in a small town and, forced to move to "big cities" to support herself, first as a lawyer and then as a professor, she found the only way to return to the comfortable familiarity of her childhood was by...
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Clayton Hunt and The Graphic Cow
Back when Clayton Hunt was at USC in Columbia he supported himself by designing and printing custom t-shirts for campus organizations. He joins Dr. Edgar to talk about how he turned that side line into a successful business, The Graphic Cow.
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Brian Hicks and Gene Owens
Brian Hicks is a weekly columnist who never really set out to be a weekly columnist. However, his column for the Post and Courier newspaper of Charleston has a following of loyal readers who enjoy his irreverent style. He talks with Dr. Edgar about how he wound up being a columnist and how he finds topics. And, well have an encore of an earlier visit with Gene Owens, columnist, journalist, and story teller.
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Two lowcountry mysteries
He Laughed 'Til He Died is mystery writer Carolyn Hart's 20th Death on Demand mystery. This time, more than one death in Broward's Rock, S.C., engages Annie Darling and her husband, Max. Maybe the need some help? They get it in the form of a group of local ladies, led by mystery writer Emma Clyde, who assist Annie and Max in the hunt for the killer. Carolyn will give Walter the bird's eye lowdown on this caper. Columbia's Fran Rizer has always loved to write. She has turned that love into a...
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Hurricane preparedness and the legacy of Hugo
(Originally broadcast 09/29/09) - Charles Platt, the head of the SC Emergency Management Division, and SCEMD Chief of Preparedness Jon Boettcher will talk about the role the agency plays in preparedness and disaster response. And Dr. Susan Cutter, director of USCs Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute, will discuss with Dr. Edgar the current level of preparedness statewide for the next big natural disaster. Mayor Joe Riley of Charleston recounts the landfall of Hurricane Hugo, nearly...
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Dorothea Benton Frank: Lowcountry Summer
Dorothea Benton Frank joins us to talk about her latest book. Lowcountry Summer is the long-awaited sequel to her beloved bestseller, Plantation. When Caroline Wimbley Levine returned to Tall Pines Plantation, she never expected to make peace with long-buried truths about herself and her family. The Queen of Tall Pines, her late mother, was a force of nature, but now she is gone, leaving Caroline and the rest of the family uncertain of who will take her place. Author Cassandra King says...
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Small newspapers work to stay relevant in the age of the...
Chris Muldrow, a native of Taylors, SC, works for a company that owns 90 newspapers across the southeast. But, don't expect to find him in the city room of any of those dailies. He heads Internet operations for Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., and is on the front line of the efforts of newspapersparticularly small onesto stay relevant in the age of iPhones, Facebook and Twitter.
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Green Development
(Originally broadcast 01/08/09) - The word green has become ubiquitous as Americans face the need for sustainable energy but, what about sustainable development? Greenwood Communities and Resorts has won numerous awards for planning communities that respect the land and its history. John Morgan talks with Dr. Edgar about how they do this, and why.
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A century and a half of the law
The firm of Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth and Detrick has been practicing law in Hampton, SC, for 100 years. Randolph Murdaugh, John E. Parker, and Lee Cope join Dr. Edgar to talk about the practice of law in small-town South Carolina, and how it has changed over a century.In 2006 Walter Edgar's Journal traveled to Spartanburg to talk with Judge Bruce Cameron Littlejohn, former speaker of the SC House, and former SC Supreme Court Chief Justice. We'll bring you an encore of part of that...
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Island in a Storm
(Originally broadcast 09/04/09) - In the summer of 1853 many of New Orleans citizens traveled to Isle Derniere, an emerging island retreat on the Gulf of Mexico, presuming it a safe haven from yellow fever. Then, without warning, on August 10, 1856, a hurricane swept across the island, killing most of its 400 inhabitants. What remained of the island was a forest stranded in the sea, a sign of a land that would eventually vanish. Island in a Storm is the riveting true story of the people who...
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Take on the South: What is REAL Southern cooking?
Dr. Walter Edgar; John T. Edge, Author and Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, University of Mississippi; and Matt and Ted Lee, award winning cookbook authors will debate the question "What is Real Southern Cooking?" on the next Take on The South program on ETV. We'll get an advance taste of what's in store. Tell us about your Favorite Southern Recipe or Favorite Southern Food.
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The Bone Theif
The first four Body Farm novels Carved in Bone, Flesh and Bone, The Devils Bones, and Bones of Betrayal took readers deep into the backwoods of East Tennessee, where fascinating forensic science mixed with extraordinary characters, including the Farms charismatic founder, Dr. Bill Brockton. Now, in the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series Kathy Reichs calls the real deal, Brockton must stop a grisly black market dealing in body parts and cadavers. Jefferson Bass (Jon...
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The Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
(Originally broadcast 2/19/10) Designated by Congress in 2006, the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor extends from Wilmington, N.C. in the north to Jacksonville, Fl. in the south. It is home to one of America's unique cultures, a tradition first shaped by captive Africans brought to the southern United States from West Africa and continued in later generations by their descendents. Emory S. Campbell, Chairman of the Corridor Commission, and Michael Allen, of the National Parks...
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YESCarolina
(Originally broadcast 12/4/2009) Jimmy Bailey is a successful businessman, president of a commercial real estate agency. He is also the founder of YESCarolina, a nonprofit organization that promotes entrepreneurship and business skills among low-income children. He joins Dr. Edgar this week to talk about the program. Through entrepreneurship education, YEScarolina helps young people from communities statewide build skills and unlock their entrepreneurial creativity. From 2003 to 2009,...
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Edgewood: Stage of Southern History
Over the years, Edgewood has served as the stage for many important periods in Southern history. Originally built in 1829 for secessionist governor Francis W. Pickens, the house was home to two remarkable women, Lucy Holcombe Pickens and Eulalie Chafee Salley. Lucy was known as the "Queen of the Confederacy" and was the only woman to be featured on Confederate currency. Eulalie was one of South Carolina's earliest business women and was also a leader in the suffrage movement. We'll find out...
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The Carolina Youth Development Center at 220 years
Founded in 1790 as the Charleston Orphan House, Carolina Youth Development Center's mission is to assist children in reaching their full potential as healthy and well-adjusted individuals by delivering a continuum of prevention, assessment, intervention, and treatment services. Originally located in downtown Charleston, the multiple programs of the Orphan House included an educational system, believed to have been one of the first in South Carolina; a kindergarten, the first in South...
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Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil...
Ten years in the making, Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement is the first major history of America's oldest civil rights organization. Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) got its start as an elite organization dominated by white reformers at a time when segregation had triumphed in the South and the color line was tightening its hold in the North. By the end of World War I, the NAACP had become a...
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John McCardell on the liberal arts
John Malcolm McCardell, Jr. is the president emeritus of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, and the Vice Chancellor-Elect of The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He is also founder of Choose Responsibility, a non-profit group that advocates the counter-intuitive idea that changing the drinking age to 18 will help mitigate campus binge-drinking.He joins Dr. Edgar to talk about the value of a liberal arts education as well as how parents, law enforcement, educational...
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Matt and Ted Lee: Simple Fresh Southern
(Originally broadcast 12/11/09) - Southern cuisine is arriving in a big way. Chefs all over the United States are digging deeper into southern traditions, taking on ingredients and techniques that reach beyond fried chicken and BBQ. At the forefront of the southern food revolution are Matt Lee and Ted Lee. Matt Lee and Ted Lee grew up in Charleston, and in 1994 founded The Lee Bros. Boiled Peanuts Catalogue, a mail-order source for southern pantry staples. Their first cookbook, The Lee Bros....
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Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Epic
A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Daviss inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnuts death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated literary history and the questions that attend itwhich edition represents the real Chesnut? To...
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Local historical societies, museums, and their vital work
South Carolina's historical museums and historical societies are vital links to the people and events of our past. Their work, often accomplished with small staffs, limited funding, and a corps of volunteers preserve more than local history. They provide the foundation of South Carolina history and national history. As Dr. Edgar has said, All history is local. To talk about the work of local historical societies and museums Dr. Edgar is joined by Pelham Lyles, director of the Fairfield...
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Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
More than three hundred years ago people from Africa brought an understanding of rice cultivation and skills as basket makers to plantations in America. Their knowledge and labor transformed the landscape and economy of Carolina and made rice the colony's first major export crop. Although working under the brutal conditions of slavery, African people did not forget their rich cultural traditions. The coiled basket became the signature form made by Africans in America. In the twenty first...
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Cheating the Stillness: the World of Julia Peterkin
South Carolina novelist Julia Peterkin revolutionized American literature and launched what we now call the Southern Renaissance by writing about the lives of plain black farming people. Although she was white and the mistress of a cotton plantation, scholar and activist W.E.B. DuBois declared that she had the eye and the ear to see beauty and to know truth. In 1922, when she had published only a handful of short sketches, the influential critic H. L. Mencken announced that her stories were...
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Lee Pringle of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra’s...
Our guest Lee Pringle started and managed the Charleston Symphony Orchestra Gospel Choir for ten years. He noticed that audiences were mesmerized when the choir sang spirituals--as opposed to gospel songs. So, he set out to create the CSO Spiritual Ensemble, which has been singing for about two years to great audience acclaim. He joins Dr. Edgar to talk about spirituals, gospel music, classical music, and the history of the Ensemble. This program also features recorded performances by the...
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Down by the Riverside
In Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community, Charles Joyner takes readers on a journey back in time, up the Waccamaw River through the Lowcountry of South Carolina, past abandoned rice fields once made productive by the labor of enslaved Africans, past rice mills and forest clearings into the antebellum world of All Saints Parish. In this slave community, and many others like it, the slaves created a new language, a new religion--indeed, a new culture--from African traditions...
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The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget
Pushcart Prize-winning journalist Andrew Rice joins Dr. Edgar to talk about his book The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget. He tells us that he hadn't set out for Uganda to write a murder mysterybut he surely found one. Rice's book is his multi-layered meditation on history and reconciliation in modern-day Africa, where he explores the 30-year-old mystery of Eliphaz Laki, who disappeared during the reign of Idi Amin. "I started off writing the book as history," says Rice. "As...
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Food banks in hard times
With rising unemployment many people who never thought they would need to turn for help to their local food bank are doing just that. That means food banks are facing unprecedented demands at a time when the recession is causing a drop in contributions. Joining Dr. Edgar to talk about the problem and how they are meeting it are the executive directors of two of the largest food banks in the state: Denise Holland of Harvest Hope, and Jermaine Husser of the Lowcountry Food Bank.
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A Portrait of Greenville
How do people see the place where they live and work; and how do others from the outside see it? An upcoming exhibition at the Greenville County Museum of Art explores these questions. Martha Severens, Curator at the Museum, joins Dr. Edgar to talk about A Portrait of Greenville, which will showcase a broad variety of work that has Greenville as the subject. It will include the Joshua Shaw painting of the Reedy River, some antebellum-era portraits by Thomas Stephen Powell, photographs by...
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The Historic Charleston Foundation
In October of 2009, the National Trust for Historic Preservation presented its Preservation Honor Award to Historic Charleston Foundation in recognition of the successful development the city's newly revised Preservation Plan. The award was one of 23 bestowed by the National Trust during its 2009 National Preservation Conference in Nashville, Tenn. The plan looks beyond bricks and mortar to consider social, economic and cultural issues that affect preservation. In addition to advocating...
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The Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
Designated by Congress in 2006, the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor extends from Wilmington, N.C. in the north to Jacksonville, Fl. in the south. It is home to one of America's unique cultures, a tradition first shaped by captive Africans brought to the southern United States from West Africa and continued in later generations by their descendents. Emory S. Campbell, Chairman of the Corridor Commission, and Michael Allen, of the National Parks Service, join Dr. Edgar to The...
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Encores Anthology
This is a "best of" program featuring excerpts from shows we ran from November 2009 to January 2010. This version does not contain pledge breaks.
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Gene Bedell: Three Steps to Yes
Everybody has to sell something sometime. Parents have to sell their kids on the idea of eating vegetables and not taking drugs; managers have to sell their employees on the idea of showing up on time and producing. Getting your message across requires selling yourself and your ideas in a way that guarantees a positive response from the most stubborn listener. Gene Bedell spent a lifetime selling, but he changed his method when he discovered a better way. Bedell joins Dr. Edgar to talk about...
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The Yemassee Rivitalization Corp’s “Railroad Dinner”
The town of Yemassee, like many small Southern towns, has faced steep economic challenges over the years. In order to revitalize the town they love members of the community have created the non-profit Yemassee Revitalization Corp. For the second year they are holding a special Railroad Dinner to help raise funding for their projects. (One of which includes transforming the old train station downtown.) The idea of a railroad dinner came about out of a conversation a group of friends,...
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Entrepreneur Beezer Molten
Beezer Molten loves the outdoors and surfing. He has channeled that love and dedication into building a southeastern chain of stores, Half-Moon Outfitters. He joins Dr. Edgar to talk about his challenging, sometimes rocky path to becoming a successful entrepreneur.
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Camellias
Camellia lovers, gardeners, and flower fans will want to be sure catch this episode of The Journal. Dr. Edgar talks about camellias' history and future with Dr. William Barrick of Bellingrath Gardens in Theodore, AL, and Bobby Green of Green Nurseries and Landscape Design Inc., in Fairhope, AL.
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John Morgan: sustainable development
The word “green” has become ubiquitous as Americans face the need for sustainable energy but, what about sustainable development? Greenwood Communities and Resorts has won numerous awards for planning communities that respect the land and its history. John Morgan talks with Dr. Edgar about how they do this, and why.
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The Black Bottom Buscuits
The Black Bottom Biscuits return to talk with Dr. Edgar about their latest album, "Ain't No Kinda Blue." We'll also sample some of the music from that disk.
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Kirk Neely: Comfort and Joy
Kirk H. Neely’s Comfort and Joy—Nine Christmas Stories, tells of the redemptive power of Christmas, harkening back to O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi.” Along the way, he introduces us to Sara Williams, a young woman who carries on the family legacy of sweetgrass basket making but whose life has gone off track into drugs and prostitution. The story “Joe’s Tree,” follows a Christmas tree on a miraculous journey from a child’s grave to a frat house to a children’s shelter. And together with...
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Carolyn Hart: Merry, Merry Ghost
Carolyn Hart is the author of eighteen previous Death on Demand novels. Her books have won multiple Agatha, Anthony, and MaCavity awards. She is also the creator of the Henrie O series, and she was one of the founders of Sisters in Crime. She joins Dr. Edgar to talk about Merry, Merry Ghost, which features the impetuous, redheaded ghost of Bailey Ruth. This is the second book in Hart's newest mystery series.
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The Lee Brothers
Southern cuisine is arriving in a big way. Chefs all over the United States are digging deeper into southern traditions, taking on ingredients and techniques that reach beyond fried chicken and BBQ. At the forefront of the southern food revolution are Matt Lee and Ted Lee. Matt Lee and Ted Lee grew up in Charleston, and in 1994 founded The Lee Bros. Boiled Peanuts Catalogue, a mail-order source for southern pantry staples. Their first cookbook, The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook, received the...
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Jimmy Bailey: YESCarolina
Jimmy Bailey is a successful businessman, president of a commercial real estate agency. He is also the founder of YESCarolina, a nonprofit organization that promotes entrepreneurship and business skills among low-income children. He joins Dr. Edgar this week to talk about the program. Through entrepreneurship education, YEScarolina helps young people from communities statewide build skills and unlock their entrepreneurial creativity. From 2003 to 2009, YEScarolina has trained over 500 NFTE...
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Young and living in the new economy—Jack Burg
When Jack Burg waits on your table at a fashionable Charleston restaurant, you might take for a college student who works part time and will one day graduate and move into a profession. But Jack already has a profession: he's a very busy musician in the port city—he works with three different bands—who supplements his income by working as a waiter. He joins Dr. Edgar to talk about what it's like to be a young man living in the new economy.
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John Sledge, author of The Pillared City: Greek Revival...
This week Dr. Edgar has a conversation with John Sledge about his book, The Pillared City: Greek Revival Mobile . In The Pillared City, John Sledge presents a richly illustrated overview of the Greek revival period in Mobile, Alabama (1825-70), when high style and vernacular columned buildings were erected on the city's streets. Using a wealth of resources such as deeds and diaries, Sledge reveals the architectural accomplishments that helped Mobile emerge from its position as a rustic...
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Special broadcast of Walter Edgar’s Journal at 1pm today
Today at 1:00pm, in remembrance of Bill Hay, the founding Director of ETV Radio, and in honor of his contributions to the quality of life in South Carolina we are featuring an encore broadcast of a Journal program first aired September 6th, 2002, during the celebration of ETV Radio’s 30th anniversary. Walter's guests are Bill Hay and former Vice-President of ETV Radio, Tom Fowler. The program will be posted as a podcast later this afternoon.
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Take on the South
Dr. Edgar, Dr. Peter A. Coclanis, Associate Provost, International Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Dr. Stanley Engerman, John Munro Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics and Professor of History, University of Rochester, will debate "Would Southern Slavery Have Survived the Civil War?" This episode is complimentary to the ETV program Take on the South: Would Southern Slavery Have Survived the Civil War?, which airs November 18, 2009 at 8:00 pm on all ETV...
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Mary Alice Monroe: Last Light over Carolina
Lowcountry author Mary Alice Monroe talks with Dr. Edgar about her new book, Last Light Over Carolina, and the challenges that face South Carolina shrimpers. In Last Light Over Carolina, an otherwise ordinary day in a small shrimping village off the coast of South Carolina becomes a potentially tragic day--a boat has gone missing. The entire town rallies as all are mobilized to find the lost vessel. Throughout the course of one day, the story of Bud Morrison, the captain on board, and of...
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Old-Time Radio
John Wrisley is a long-time broadcast in the Midlands who is also an avid lover of old-time radio. Betsy Weinberg and he share what "old-time" radio means and their efforts to keep its history and its programs alive.
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From the Pee Dee to the Savannah: Enduring Legacies of...
The Fall Line is a geographic region within South Carolina where the rivers are no longer navigable from the Low Country. Historically, this area, which stretches from Cheraw on the Pee Dee River to Hamburg (present day North Augusta) on the Savannah River, yielded experiences and material culture that were characteristic of its peoples. In 2002, ten Midlands-area museums, archives, and libraries formed the South Carolina Fall Line Consortium in order to identify, research, and interpret the...
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The Tobacco Trail
Dr. Eldred “Wink” Prince is the author of the first comprehensive history of Bright Leaf tobacco culture of any state to appear in fifty years, Long Green: The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolina (University of Georgia Press, 2000). The book explores the advances and retreats of tobacco's influence in South Carolina from its beginnings in the colonial period to its heyday at the turn of the century, the impact of the Depression, the New Deal, World War II, and on to present-day...
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Voices of Our Ancestors: Language Contact in Early South...
As language development reflects historical development, linguistics can also serve as an avenue of inquiry into South Carolina's social history from the epoch of Native American primacy to the present day. In her recent book Voices of Our Ancestors: Language Contact in Early South Carolina, linguist and author Patricia C. Nichols pays particular attention to the development of the Gullah language among the coastal African American peoples and the ways in which this language—and others of...
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Hurricane Preparedness
Mayor Joe Riley of Charleston recounts the landfall of Hugo, 20 years ago. He also talks with Dr. Edgar about preparing for the next hurricane that makes land in the Lowcountry, and the impact such a storm could have on dense coastal development. Charles Platt, the new head of the SC Emergency Preparedness Division, and SCEMD Chief of Preparedness Jon Boettcher will talk about the role the agency plays in preparedness and disaster response. And Dr. Susan Cutter, director of USC’s Hazards and...
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Hugo: A Landmark in Time
In 1989, Hurricane Hugo cut a swath of destruction from Charleston to Columbia and into Charlotte, NC. A new book, Hugo: A Landmark in Time observes the 20th anniversary of its landfall. Editors John Burbage and Jason Lesley join Dr. Edgar to talk about the book, and about "the storm of the century."
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Dorothea Benton Frank: Return to Sullivans Island
Author Dorothea Benton Frank joins Dr. Edgar to talk about her new novel, Return to Sullivans Island, which takes readers back to the enchanted landscape of South Carolina's Lowcountry made famous in her beloved New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island to tell the story of the next generation of Hamiltons and Hayes. Whether you were away from the Lowcountry for a week or for years, it was impossible to remember how gorgeous it was. It never changed and everyone depended on that. Newly...
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Abby Sallenger: Island in a Storm
In the summer of 1853 explosions rocked New Orleans. The mayor ordered cannons fired and barrels of tar set aflame in a desperate attempt to rid the city of yellow fever. Those with the means fled. Many of them traveled to Isle Derniere, an emerging island retreat on the Gulf of Mexico, presuming it a safe haven. Then, without warning, on August 10, 1856, a hurricane swept across the island, killing most of its 400 inhabitants. The Isle Derniere, already a narrow ribbon of sand, was...
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Picturing America
(Originally broadcast 03/27/08) - Martha Severens, Curator of the Greenville County Museum of Art, has been asked by the SC Humanities Council to present a series of lectures around the state on the The National Endowment for the Humanities’ initiative "Picturing America" is an innovative program that helps teach American history and provides students with a gateway to the broader world of the humanities through visual imagery. The NEH has selected 40 iconic pieces (art, artifacts,...
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Greenville Chautauqua
(Originally broadcast 05/15/09) - With summer and winter festivals, and other events throughout the rest of the year, Greenville Chautauqua brings history to life. The first Chautauqua was started as an outdoor adult education program for Sunday School teachers at a campsite on Chautauqua Lake in upstate New York founded by Methodist minister John Heyl Vincent and businessman Lewis Miller. In the 1970s Chautauqua was revived and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and...
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Take on the South: The Most Influential Southern Novel
(Originally broadcast 05/08/09) - Internationally-renowned Southern-literature scholars Trudier Harris of UNC and Noel Polk of Mississippi State University join Dr. Edgar to debate the topic "What was the most influential Southern novel of the 20th century?" This episode is a companion to the latest installment of the ETV series Take on the South: "What was the most influential 20th-century Southern novel?"
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Gene Owens, columnist, humorist
(Originally broadcast 03/20/08) - Journalist, writer, and raconteur Gene Owens is back! You’ve read his commentary in the “Greasepit Grammar" columns at USADeepSouth.com. You’ve heard him from time to time on The Journal. Now Gene and Walter Edgar spend a fun-filled hour talking about all things Southern, including: “Southernisms” in the language, books and films about the region, journalism, and the Southern economy. Gene Owens has been around the Southern journalistic scene for over 40...
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Michael Bedenbaugh, the Palmetto Trust for Historic...
(Originally broadcast 09/05/08) - The Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation is a non-profit organization operating in South Carolina since 1990, dedicated to preserving and protecting the irreplaceable architectural heritage of South Carolina. Executive Director Michael Bedenbaugh talks with Dr. Edgar about the goals of the Trust, including advocacy, education, preservation, and helping preservationist across the state to work together.
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Sarah Hammond, playwright
(Originally broadcast 11/21/08) - Playwright Sarah Hammond is the daughter of journalists who are South Carolina natives. She has been a Dramatists Guild Fellow and a Princess Grace Award runner-up. A proud graduate of the University of South Carolina (BA) and the University of Iowa (MFA), she has taught play writing at both schools. She is now based in Brooklyn, and has become a member of New Dramatists, the nation’s oldest nonprofit center for the development of talented playwrights. She...
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Dr. Bernard Powers
(Originally broadcast 03/14/08) - Denmark Vesey was a West Indian slave, and later a freedman, who planned what would have been one of the largest slave rebellions in the United States had word of the plans not been leaked. The revolt was to take place on Bastille Day, July 17, 1822, and was in reaction to the city of Charleston's suppression of the African Church, which boasted a membership of over three thousand in 1820. News of the plan leaked and Charleston authorities arrested the...
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Ed Madden, poet
Ed Madden is the author/editor of several books, including Signals, a collection of poems which won the SC Poetry Book Prize. He is also Associate Professor of English language and Literature and Associate Director of Women’s Studies at USC’s College of Arts and Humanities. He talks with Walter about Signals, as well as other works, and his work in Women’s Studies.
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Miles Hoffman
(Originally broadcast 01/09/09) - Miles Hoffman is renowned violist and artistic director of the American Chamber Players, with whom he regularly tours the United States and Canada. . He has also appeared as a soloist with many orchestras around the country, performing a broad repertoire that ranges from baroque to contemporary compositions, and he has been a featured lecturer for orchestras, universities, chamber music series, festivals, and various other organizations. Before joining...
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Mary Alice Monroe, author
(Originally broadcast - 1/16/09) - Mary Alice Monroe has written stories for as long as she can remember. As a child she could always be found curled up with a book or writing. Although she currently rights fiction, she began as a journalist. It was during months of bed rest during a difficult pregnancy that she began fiction and now has written more than a dozen novels. Although known for her intimate portrayals of women's lives, her writing has gained added purpose and depth with her...
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Fran Rizer, author of the Callie Parrish series of...
Fran Rizer has always loved to write, authoring quite a few non-fiction articles over the years while she worked as a remedial math teacher and as an English teacher in Columbia’s public schools. When she retired, however, she finally had the time to write a novel. Thus was born a new mystery series featuring protagonist Callie Parrish, a beautician at the local mortuary in St. Mary, South Carolina. Fran Rizer joins Dr. Edgar for a free-wheeling conversation about Callie and her world that...
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Bill Dukes of Honor Flight, SC; and WWII veteran T....
(Originally broadcast 03/06/2009) - On November 16th, 2008, a dream came true for Columbia restaurateur Bill Dukes as he and about 90 World War II veterans began a flight to Washington, DC, to see the WWII Memorial. For many of the veterans, a visit to the Memorial, dedicated in 2004, was something they would probably never have dreamed of, much less done. Honor Flight South Carolina is a non-profit organization dedicated to flying South Carolina WWII vets to see “their monument,” free of...
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Greenville Chautauqau
With summer and winter festivals, and other events throughout the rest of the year, Greenville Chautauqua brings history to life. The first Chautauqua was started as an outdoor adult education program for Sunday School teachers at a campsite on Chautauqua Lake in upstate New York founded by Methodist minister John Heyl Vincent and businessman Lewis Miller. In the 1970s Chautauqua was revived and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and state humanities councils as a means...
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What is the most influential Southern novel of the 20th...
Internationally-renowned Southern-literature scholars Trudier Harris of UNC and Noel Polk of Mississippi State Univeristy join Dr. Edgar to debate the topic "What was the most influential Southern novel of the 20th century?" This episode is a companion to the latest instalment of the ETV series Take on the South: "What was the most influential 20th-century Southern novel?" which airs on ETV stations Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 8:00 pm.
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Slavery to Freedom: The Magnolia Slave Cabin Project
Magnolia Plantation's slave cabins have a unique history, in that they have been utilized from the time of antebellum slavery through emancipation and into the late 20th century by African-Americans. Magnolia Plantation, in Charleston, has partnered with The Living History Group to restore these dwellings in a way that interpret African-American history from slavery to freedom and beyond. Craig Hadley, Executive Director of The Living History Group, and Rick Owens, of Carolina Preservation...
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The Curious Mr. Catesby
In February 1722, Mark Catesby, a 40-year old Englishman with an enigmatic past and an insatiable curiosity for the wondrous serendipity of nature, set sail on a three-month voyage to the Lowcountry of South Carolina. His sojourn in the New World was taken under the auspices of London’s Royal Society. Catesby was to spend the next four years exploring the natural habitat of the southeast colonies and the Bahamas, and the subsequent 20 years writing and illustrating his exhaustive...
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