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Walter Edgar's Journal
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This week: 07/04/2008 (Repeated from July 21, 2006)
Dr. Edgar talks with Michael Scoggins, historian for York County's Culture and Heritage Museum, Research Director of the Southern Revolutionary War Institute, and author of the book "The Day it Rained Militia." Beginning with The Battle of Williamson's Plantation, or "Huck's Defeat" as it later came to be known, the book tells the story of the vicious partisan warfare waged by the militiamen on the Carolina frontier against the superior forces of the British Army during the Revolution. |
From beach music to barbecue, Walter Edgar's Journal takes listeners on a journey that delves into South Carolina's past while providing insight into the state's current affairs.| Upcoming and Previous Shows | ||||
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| 09/26/2008 | ||||
| Judy Russell had no idea that trying to put names with faces in old family photos would lead her to an overgrown Quaker cemetery, a book and some 300 family members - including a friend. A casual query to a genealogical internet listserv back in 1996 started her on a journey which eventually led her and acquaintance Pam Armstrong to an overgrown cemetery in Newberry, SC, where members of a Revolutionary-era Quaker community, and their descendants, were buried. She joins Dr. Edgar to talk about the restoration of the cemetery, the uniting of living descendants of that early community to reconstruct and preserve their family's history. |
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| 09/19/2008 | ||||
| The Curious Mister Catesby" is a one-hour documentary about the life and work of scientist and artist Mark Catesby (1683-1749). Now extremely rare and largely unknown to the general public, Catesby’s "Natural History of the Carolinas, Florida and the Bahama Islands" – based on his extensive studies in the North American wilderness – was one of the greatest accomplishmentsw in art and science relative to North America prior to the American Revolution. Audubon, who came a century later, stood on Catesby’s shoulders, as did most leading naturalists of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Producer David Elliot will join Dr. Edgar to talk about Catesby and about making the documentary, which will be presented nationally by ETV through American Public Television. |
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| 09/12/2008 | ||||
| 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 about the goals of the Trust, including advocacy, education, preservation, and helping preservationist across the state to work together. |
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| 09/05/2008 | ||||
| (originally broadcast 4/20/2007) - In 1983 Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir was published by Simon & Schuster's Free Press. It was 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." Past Distinguished Visiting Professor at USC's Institute of Southern Studies, Dr. Fields joins Dr. Edgar to talk about the book. |
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| 08/29/2008 | ||||
| (Originally broadcast 1/25/2008) - First published in 1971, The Unexpected Exodus is a poignant memoir by grade school teacher Louise Cassels recounting the displacement of the residents of Ellenton, South Carolina, in the early 1950s to make way for the massive Savannah River Plant, a critical cold-war nuclear weapons facility. The book has been reissued by USC Press with a foreword by Dr. Kari Frederickson, an associate professor of history and director of the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South at the University of Alabama. She joins Elliot Levy, Executive Director of the Aiken County Historical Museum, to talk about the book and about how the coming of “the Bum Plant” dramatically changed the lives of some 15 hundred South Carolina families. |
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