Carolina Stories

Saving Sandy Island

Early every weekday morning, a fleet of small motorboats launches from the Mount Arena landing on Sandy Island, taking residents to work along South Carolina’s Grand Strand. The children board the school boat, the Prince Washington, for the daily trip to mainland schools. However, residents do not seem to mind that there are no roads on or off the island. In fact, they fought to keep it this way.

The program takes a multi-faceted look at the sensitive issue of environmental development along this stretch of South Carolina’s coastline.

A year in the making, this program explores thecomplex issues surrounding the threat of development to Sandy Island, the residents and the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. Perspectives from all the main players in the debate – from the residents who are descended from freed slaves, to the environmentalists, to the developers themselves – are offered during this unflinching look.

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Thursday - December 18, 2008 at 2008-12-18 09:00 PM (Repeat)
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Finding Clovis

Finding Clovis takes viewers on an archeological adventure at the Topper dig site in Allendale County, South Carolina. Famous for Clovis and pre-Clovis artifacts there is recent evidence that may support the theory that a comet suddenly wiped out the Clovis culture 13,000 years ago. The Topper dig annually attracts scientists, students, volunteers, and observers. As part of Finding Clovis, world-renowned scientists such as Allen West, Dennis Stanford from The Smithsonian, David Anderson, Scott Jones, and Al Goodyear from the University of South Carolina will offer their opinions about these significant first Americans—where they came from, how they lived, and what may have been their fate. Producers are Steve Folks and Alejandro Baez.

Following "Finding Clovis" at 9:30 is Spokes and Strings. This program features the challenges and triumphs of three South Carolina athletes who play wheelchair tennis on the international level.

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Thursday - January 08, 2009 at 2009-01-08 09:00 PM (Repeat)
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Florence: A Renaissance Spirit

This program looks at the history of Florence, South Carolina that originally began as a railroad junction.

During the Civil War, a Confederate stockade was located there, and a gunboat built in Florence patrolled the Great Pee Dee River. Today, Florence is an important regional hub, with leading medical facilities, educational institutions, and growing industry.

Steve Folks produced and directed this program. Florence: A Renaissance Spirit is an encore presentation.

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Thursday - January 08, 2009 at 2009-01-08 09:30 PM (Repeat)
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Baseball in the Upstate

From the late 1800’s to present day, the game of baseball has played an important roll in the history and culture surrounding the Upstate of South Carolina. Many baseball greats started their careers in either the Textile Mill Leagues or the segregated Negro Leagues. Baseball in the Upstate explores the fascination of baseball, and why it remains one of the favorite pastimes in the area. Produced and directed by Mitzi Adams.

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Thursday - January 15, 2009 at 9:00 pm
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Ghosts and Legends

Ghosts and Legends tracks the legends and lore from South Carolina’s past in this haunting journey from the Old Exchange Dungeon in Charleston to the Abbeville Opera House in the Upstate. Search for the Lands End Ghost that walks the Carolina coast and maybe the most famous of all, the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp. Produced and directed by William Richardson.

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Thursday - January 15, 2009 at 2009-01-15 09:30 PM (Repeat)
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Jolly is the story of Anderson County legend and Confederate soldier Manse Jolly.

South Carolina lore recounts how Jolly purportedly killed as many as 100 Union soldiers in post-Civil War Anderson, SC. Allegedly, his hatred of Yankees and the deaths of his five brothers during the war sparked this killing spree.

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Thursday - November 27, 2008 at 9:30 pm (Repeat)
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South Carolina's World War II Veterans Reflect

It has been sixty years since the end of World War II, and the last of the South Carolina veterans who fought against the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany are now dying at an alarming rate. Soon their living memories of will be gone and World War II will simply become another chapter in history.

The Vanishing Generation is a powerful visualization of the first-hand accounts of World War II by South Carolina veterans. These personal remembrances tell the story of what these men experienced, and how it not only changed the world but their lives as well.

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Thursday - November 13, 2008 at 9:00 pm (Repeat)
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DOWN (but not out) follows one man’s daily routine as he survives on the streets of Columbia, South Carolina. From the shelter to the temp labor services to the soup kitchens, Eric “Protein” Moseley takes the viewer on a journey through his world, encountering anger, desperation and hope in one brief breath. The documentary is an ongoing conversation with the streets. The participants in this dialogue are prophets, poets, preachers, and musicians. Many of them are drug addicts, criminals or mentally ill. All of them are either homeless or work directly with the homeless.

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Thursday - November 06, 2008 at 9:00 pm (Repeat)
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Carolina Stories travels to the Beaufort Lowcountry and beyond for In This Sacred Place, a documentary that takes a look at the sanctuaries and sites of cultural and historical significance in that part of the state.  The program also examines the traditions that make these sites relevant, even today. 

In This Sacred Place is an exploration of the spiritual journeys that have shaped our cultural heritage.  From Beaufort’s Beth Israel Synagogue to the Pon Pon Chapel of Ease in Jacksonboro, the program transports viewers into places of worship that are as rich and diverse as the congregations they serve.

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Thursday - October 09, 2008
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Tells the story of the dedicated team of women (and a few men) who are making a positive impact on the endangered sea turtle population along the SC coast.

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Thursday - August 21, 2008
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One of the worst American battle defeats in the Revolution was fought in Camden, South Carolina. Revolutionary war re-enactors help tell the story of this crucial event in American history.

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Thursday - August 14, 2008
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