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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.

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10/17/2008 Joshua Ortegon is a sports performance specialist at Athlete's Arena, a midlands company that specializes in both personal training and sports-training. He joins Dr. Edgar to talk about his goal to "train, teach and equip..[his]..clients with the fundamental knowledge to maximize their performance and reach their physical potential."
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11/28/2008
An encore program, to be announced.
11/21/2008
Playwright Sarah Hammond is the daughter of journalists who are South Carolina navtives. 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 playwriting 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 stops by our studios while home for a visit and talks with Dr. Edgar about her plays and her career.
11/14/2008
A Story of Two Soldiers, Part Two of Two - When we talked to Vietnam War veteran Homer Steedly in 2007 the SC native told us of his plans to return to Vietnam. One of his goals has been to, at last, meet face-to-face with the family of Hoang Ngoc Dam, the young North Vietnamese soldier (a medic) whom he'd killed in March of 1969; and to help locate Dam's remains and return them to the Hoang family's village for burial.

In May of 2008, Homer started the journey back to Vietnam. He shares with Dr. Edgar the story of the events that followed: meeting the family, finding the remains, journeying to the Dam's home village of Thai Giang, meeting the family, and participating in the ceremonies and burial of Hoang Ngoc Dam's remains in their final resting place.

It is a moving, powerful story. Homer's web site is www.swamp.info
11/07/2008
A Story of Two Soldiers, Part One of Two - On the 18th of March, 1969, Homer Steedly, a young infantry lieutenant from Denmark, SC, killed a 24 year old North Vietnamese medic named Hoang Ngoc Dam in a fire fight. Searching the body afterwards, Steedly found several small notebooks and other papers, which he eventually sent home to his mother.

Thirty years after Dam was shot, Steedly’s friend, Maryland author Wayne Karlin, was able to locate the man's family and to finally return those documents. Steedly has corresponded extensively with Dam's family in recent years. Over that time a plan developed for him to return to Vietnam and meet them. He did that early in 2008 and we'll hear about his trip next week.

This week we'll recap Homer's story by encoring a show from 2007 where he shares with Dr. Edgar the emotional journey which began for him in 1969 and is still going on today. He also tells the story of the return of those documents to Dam's village and family and how that began a healing process for both the family and village, veterans who have heard the story, and himself.

Homer Steedly's web site: www.swampfox.info
10/31/2008
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