Bad Hair Days and Lessons from a Blow Out
August 13, 2020
By Tammy Davis Some call August the dog days. Women call it something else: bad hair days. SC humidity and hair styles don’t get along. Women hate their hair…
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The Roadside Stand
August 13, 2020
By Tom Poland Two words say it all. “Delicious simplicity.” No register. Cash and carry. Paper bags to hold jewels polished by the farmer’s hands. A friendly face. Produce…
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Over 1,000 acres now conserved in the Lynches River watershed
August 11, 2020
Over 1,000 acres in the Lynches River watershed are now conserved, thanks to the collaborative efforts of the McLeod family, Congaree Land Trust (CLT) and the Lynches River Conservation Fund…
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The Mystery of Huguenot, Georgia
August 6, 2020
By Tom Poland I grew up unlettered as Huguenots go. That changed much later after I moved to South Carolina. There I drove along Huger and Gervais Street and…
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Tyler, Dustin, and the Streets Of New York City
August 6, 2020
By Tammy Davis Go ahead. Call me a bad mother. Back in 2019, I watched every single episode of The Bachelorette with my fifteen-year-old daughter. I knew it was…
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Survey respondents needed to Build it Back Better
August 3, 2020
South Carolina leaders urge parent to fill out Child Care Survey The South Carolina Early Childhood Advisory Council (ECAC) and the United Way Association of South Carolina want to hear…
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All The Stories
July 31, 2020
By Tammy Davis A timeline. Every social studies classroom has one. Mine was up high, where the wall met the ceiling. The teacher before me, or maybe the teacher…
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Stonecutters’ Beautiful Legacy
July 31, 2020
By Tom Poland Stonecutters’ Beautiful Legacy I love back roads’ and their fading vestiges of yesteryear. Bull Durham and Coca Cola ads painted onto brick and old Camel cigarette…
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First-ever, free Drive-Through S.C. State Fair to be held Oct. 20-21, 2020
July 29, 2020
In an effort to give back to the community in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonprofit South Carolina State Fair will host its first-ever free, Drive-Through S.C. State Fair…
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Better At The Beach. Food and Family Vacations.
July 23, 2020
By Tammy Davis The only thing better than a week at the beach is a week at the beach with lots of good food. Vacations give families and friends…
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Tallulah Point Outlook, Part One
July 23, 2020
By Tom Poland An Enduring Icon Endures No More In that precious time of boyhood summers, our family would drive from Lincoln County, Georgia, to the North Carolina…
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Training continues for Sea Cadets at Relic Room – this time virtually
July 15, 2020
Educational activities continue at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, but a little differently from what we’re used to. For instance, on Saturday, July 18, we’ll have…
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Moving On, The Gift of Forgiveness
July 14, 2020
By Tammy Davis A friend recently saw her ex for the first time in years. It was time to make peace. Past time really. She saw his truck when…
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Ghost Stories
July 14, 2020
By Tom Poland Great Aunt Annie, long buried in some graveyard up Asheville way, told me ghost stories when I was a boy. I’d sit by a hissing wood…
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Old Dogs, New Tricks
July 8, 2020
By Tammy Davis I love it when the universe gives us what we need. Lately, I’ve been trying to grow my audience. I’ve asked several experts for advice, and…
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Saws, Maters, & Men Long Gone
July 8, 2020
By Tom Poland Growing up in eastern Georgia deep in pines, I wakened to the wail of chainsaws six days a week. Yellow McCullochs and red Poulans sliced through…
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From Three Black Men to Two
July 2, 2020
By Tammy Davis 1990. Summer School, a place nobody ever wants to be. One of my first teaching assignments, and nothing from my education classes applied. The students fell…
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Fried Green Tomatoes
July 2, 2020
By Tom Poland My back-road explorations take me to little eateries tucked neatly in the middle of nowhere, whistle-stop places. Country folks run these deep-fried, lonely roadside stops so…
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July 4th on Lake Murray
June 30, 2020The Capital City/ Lake Murray Country Regional Tourism Board is pleased to present Lake Murray’s July 4th Celebration scheduled for Saturday, July 4th. At approximately 9:15 or dark, fireworks will launch…
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Summer camps continue at Town Theatre – virtual AND in-person!
June 29, 2020
Summer Camps Continue at Town Theatre! Let’s go! Summer camp is in full swing ~ virtual AND in person options for ALL ages are available July 6-31. We offer a…
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This Is What We Like – Robert Gardiner, Jazz Musician
June 25, 2020
By Tammy Davis January 2020. Date night, back when folks could actually leave the house. On that rainy evening, I showered, put on make-up, fixed my hair and wore…
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The Outhouse Flower
June 25, 2020
By Tom Poland I remember Mom talked of a flower with a strange name, hollyhocks. She talked flowers a lot mentioning dahlias, Cape jasmines, which go by jasmines, gardenia,…
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Grace Will Lead Us Home: A Compelling Guide to Understanding the Emanuel Church shootings
June 17, 2020
By Reba Hull Campbell Rarely does a book appeal to all my “reading” senses – well written, important message, compelling story and human connections. “Grace Will Lead Us Home”…
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Sword Drills and The Devil, We’re All Scared to Death
June 17, 2020
By Tammy Davis If you grew up Baptist, you know all about sword drills. At my little church in Bishopville, SC, it went like this: the Sunday school teacher…
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A Childhood, The Biography of a Place
June 17, 2020
By Tom Poland The book is 9.25 inches long, 6.5 inches wide, and less than an inch thick. Its 182 pages present a world well-fed folks can only guess…
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Free lecture shows how one sailor’s story can be a window on all of history
June 15, 2020
J.H. Minnis just missed out on the action of the First World War. But when you join the U.S. Navy, you get to “see the world.” And for his part,…
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The Bad Dream, the Book Bag, and the KKK
June 11, 2020
By Tammy Davis 1993 found me at an alternative school with a mixed bunch of students. Trashy kids and nice kids. Plenty of thugs and more than enough rednecks.…
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Just One Great Adventure
June 11, 2020
By Tom Poland On my way back I crossed Clarks Hill Lake twice. In soft early evening light, the water lay like a mirror. Smooth as glass as we…
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The Soundtrack of the Pandemic – Those Voices in My Head
June 11, 2020
By Reba Hull Campbell Hearing someone’s voice encourages a connection that’s completely different than just exchanging a text, an email or even a handwritten letter. A voice is as distinctive…
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Vacations in Capital City/Lake Murray Country, South Carolina, start in the great outdoors
June 10, 2020
Join in the outdoor excitement centered around world-class lake events from fishing to boating, as well as outdoor adventure like hiking and biking on countless trails With travelers easing back…
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Ready or Not, It’s Back to Work.
June 4, 2020
By Amy Coward When I came home from work a couple of months ago, I washed my thermos and stared at it. I wondered how long it would be…
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Disasters and Dreams
June 3, 2020
By Tammy Davis It took two disasters to throw me into writing. The first was a natural disaster: the Thousand Year Flood that hit in 2015. Thank you notes…
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July 4th on Lake Murray
June 3, 2020
The Capital City/ Lake Murray Country Regional Tourism Board is pleased to present Lake Murray’s July 4th Celebration scheduled for Saturday, July 4th. At approximately 9:15 or dark, fireworks will launch…
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Woods, Waters, and Flowers
June 3, 2020
By Tom Poland A botanical superstar lives in the South. It’s exquisite, ephemeral, and periled, in that much of its habitat lies beneath lakes. I’m writing about the rocky…
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Relic Room will reopen, with precautions, starting Saturday, May 30
May 27, 2020
The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum will be open again starting Saturday, May 30, at 10 a.m. The museum, which has been closed since mid-March because of…
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Quarantine Heartbreak
May 25, 2020
By Tammy Davis Part Ten of The Corona Chronicles Part Nine here Part Eight here Part Seven here Part Six here Part Five here Part Four here Part Three here Part Two here Part One here After…
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If At First You Don’t Succeed
May 25, 2020
By Tom Poland Among my father’s passions were birds and woodworking. He made bluebird boxes in his workshop and mounted them around home. He loved hummingbirds and looked for…
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A Few Life Lessons for New Graduates
May 21, 2020
By Reba Hull Campbell When May 23 rolls around every year, I put aside all the other renowned celebrations that fall on the same day – Eliza Doolittle Day,…
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Dusting Off Your Instinct
May 21, 2020By Cathy Rigg Monetti WHAT A STRANGE and unsettling time we’re in, suffering the coronavirus pandemic. Two months of self-isolation and at least we can say we have managed…
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Relic Room awarded re-accreditation by American Alliance of Museums
May 20, 2020
The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum has again achieved accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums. National accreditation recognizes the highest standards of excellence among American museums.…
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Parties and Pandemics – Slowing Coming Out
May 18, 2020
By Tammy Davis Part Nine of The Corona Chronicles Part Eight here Part Seven here Part Six here Part Five here Part Four here Part Three here Part Two here Part One here Nothing says…
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Junkyard Beauty
May 18, 2020
By Tom Poland One man’s junk is another man’s treasure. It’s true. We live in a throwaway society and junkyard junkies seek bargains. Making use of discards is frugal.…
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Free lecture covers Nixon’s efforts to produce ‘peace with honor’ in Vietnam
May 18, 2020
“Peace with Honor.” That’s what Richard Nixon promised voters in 1968, and it’s what he spent his time in the White House trying to achieve – extricating the United States…
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Looking Pretty in a Pandemic
May 13, 2020
By Tammy Davis Part Eight of The Corona Chronicles Part Seven here Part Six here Part Five here Part Four here Part Three here Part Two here Part One here Week eight, and…
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The Pull Of Beauty
May 13, 2020
By Tom Poland Over the last five years, I’ve developed two traditions I plan to never break. Come March and come May, I drop everything and head to three…
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Roosevelt Was Right; The Every-Single-Senior Project
May 6, 2020
By Tammy Davis Part Seven of The Corona Chronicles Part Six here Part Five here Part Four here Part Three here Part Two here Part One here Part Seven of The Corona…
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Buzzard Luck
May 6, 2020
By Tom Poland A searing, sweaty summer day … just as my friend leaned over to pick up his dropped keys, his glasses slid onto the asphalt and cracked.…
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Love in the Time of Corona, Fishing and First Dates
April 30, 2020
By Tammy Davis Part Six of a Very Long Series, The Corona Chronicles Part Five here Part Four here Part Three here Part Two here Part One here Courting in the midst…
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Had Harry Sat Here
April 30, 2020
By Tom Poland Rain, rain, and more rain. It hasn’t been a biblical forty days and forty nights but sure seems like it. A record sopping-wet winter has creeks…
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Buddy bear.
April 30, 2020By Cathy Rigg Monetti There are a thousand reasons, I suppose, we are obsessed with the bear. He’s beautiful, for one. Big, and healthy, with a full shiny coat…
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