Everyone makes errors

  November 12, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   Cooper Pratt is the rookie shortstop for the Milwaukee Brewers… who just recently won the World Series. Cooper made four errors in a short number of…

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Who has seen the wind?

  November 11, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   When I see photographs of Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park I want to explore a desert right then. Until I do, the fragile deserts along…

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A definition for ‘Team’

  November 5, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   Every Friday email starts off with the same greeting – “Team!” It has been that way for years. Now some people might be wondering what “Team”…

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South Carolina State Museum celebrates 38 years of discovery and looks ahead to ‘Make Way for MORE’ expansion

  November 4, 2026

As the South Carolina State Museum celebrates 38 years as the state’s primary cultural storyteller, leadership is preparing for a monumental new chapter: an ambitious, multi-phase revitalization designed to reshape…

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One Sad Thing About Fall

  November 3, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   I look forward to fall’s crisp air, college football, and colorful foliage, but with the good comes the sad. Hummingbirds take leave of us. It’s been…

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SCMMS Toy Soldier Show set for Nov. 14

  November 3, 2026

Earlier this year, The South Carolina Military Miniature Society won first place in dioramas for their miniature version of the Battle of Cowpens at the annual Toy Soldier Show in…

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Being known

  October 28, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   My favorite definition of intimacy is “to be fully known and yet still delighted in.” Now, here is what goes on in a lot of places……

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Something In The Grits Ain’t Gravy

  October 28, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   Down South we have sayings for every occasion. “Something in the grits ain’t gravy” is a way of saying you smell a rat. Take wrestling. It…

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Reader’s Digest

  October 21, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   My Boyhood Read I read my mother’s Reader’s Digests from cover to cover. It’s hard to find one today, but if you do, it will take…

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All Along The Watchtower

  October 14, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   Structures That Command the Eye In my journeys across the South, Georgialina, in particular, I take note of clock towers, watchtowers, and steeples. How can I…

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Kiaris joins Morton & Gettys

  October 10, 2026

Morton & Gettys is pleased that University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law graduate Frosini Kiaris has joined the firm as an associate. Her practice includes employment…

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The impromptu things of life

  October 10, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   Since I wrote about doing a weekend camp about a week ago with a children’s home in North Carolina, I want to mention something that happened…

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The Country Store

  October 7, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland The Soul of the South Had Everything “Where should I send you to know the Soul of the South? I’ll send you to the Mast General Store.”…

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Changing chapters

  October 7, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   At about 7:00 a.m. this morning, as Brenda was heading out the door to go to work, she says to me, “Well, this was the last…

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Beauty from ashes

  September 30, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   Last weekend, I had the privilege of speaking at a weekend retreat for Black Mountain Home for Children. That is why there was no Friday email…

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Puttin’ Out The Fire

  September 30, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   Sometimes It’s Healthier Not To “As night deepened all he could see was the shifting line of fire, like some malfunction in the wiring of the…

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Lee’s last campaign brought him to Columbia

  September 25, 2026

After the war that made him one of the most admired military leaders in history, Robert E. Lee devoted what influence he had to guiding the South toward recovery, stability,…

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The best is not always easy

  September 24, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   A few weeks ago, I had the privilege to speak at the chapel service for Garden City Chapel. So Brenda and I went down to Garden…

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Small Town Trains, Hope For The Future?

  September 23, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   The road looks just like one on Granddad’s farm running into hardwoods where a spring bubbled in shade. Come sundown in Granddad’s battered old car, we’d…

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The Civil War Changed Funeral Customs

  September 16, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   A do-it-yourself casket for a pet is as close most get today. I’ve heard of people paying a carpenter to build a casket for a dog,…

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Watching hummingbirds

  September 16, 2026

(opens in new tab) By Jeff Becraft   My wife has several hummingbird feeders hanging on our front porch. Four to be exact. Two weeks ago I talked about flies…

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It’s okay to not be okay

  September 11, 2026

(opens in new tab) By Jeff Becraft   In one of his movies, Clint Eastwood says, “Every man needs to know his limitations.” I don’t really remember much about that…

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The Deadly Silo

  September 9, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland I’ve always looked at silos with wonderment. Silos fill me with a sense of mystery. Just how do they work? Then I began to notice nearly all…

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Pursue that which is most important today

  September 2, 2026

(opens in new tab) By Jeff Becraft   Now, I am not a scientist, and I have never done any study on flies. And I have no desire to even…

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Jackson Station Rhythm & Blues Club

  September 2, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland October 1977—April 1990 Where The Music Died Now and then a kind of gravity draws me to an old building. I’m driving south on SC Highway 25…

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Blink Book Review: “Woe Is I” by Patricia O’Conner”

  September 2, 2026

By Reba Hull Campbell   I’ve been working my way through some new and not-so-new favorite writing books this summer. One I’ve revisited is the latest edition of Patricia T.…

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Jumping into the action

  August 28, 2026

(opens in new tab) By Jeff Becraft   Years ago, I was on a week-long camp with a children’s home. Halfway through the week on Wednesday, the leader of the…

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Remembering Sacks, Wagons, Indians, & Leather

  August 27, 2026

By Tom Poland   I visited the Bart Garrison Agricultural Museum of South Carolina in Pendleton a few weeks back. If you’re a product of the rural South as I…

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Christmas stamps

  August 19, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   Last December, we ran out of stamps. It was late one night and I decided to go to the post office and use their self-service station…

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A Chain-Smoking Cat Saved My Life

  August 19, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   Maybe I Saved Hers Too Summer 2022, St. Simons Island, I’m sitting around the pool when my niece, Harper, and her friend, Stella, ask me to…

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Blink Book Review: “The Irish Goodbye” by Beth Ann Fennelly

  August 19, 2026

By Reba Hull Campbell My summer reading challenge continues with another book about writing. But this one doesn’t include a single tip, hint or rule to make my writing better.…

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A Disastrous Revolutionary War Battle

  August 12, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   Old battlefields seem more like parks. Trying to imagine cannon and cries of the wounded? Difficult, but not always. Farmers’ plows unearthed so many Minié balls…

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The difference that one person makes

  August 12, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   I talked about this a few years ago, but tagging onto what was written a little over a week ago about working together and the difference…

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Memory—The Good, Bad, Ugly & Sad

  August 5, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” Cormac McCarthy’s words. Lord knows I’d like to forget some things, namely…

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Get Some Windshield Therapy

  July 29, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland If you need to escape life’s ills, put some glass in front of your eyes and forget your worries on a back road. You’ll discover the bones…

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Blink Book Review: Anna Quindlen’s “More Than Enough”

  July 29, 2026

By Reba Hull Campbell Anna Quindlen has long been one of my favorite authors, so I downloaded this audiobook without knowing much about this novel. That turned out to be…

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