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“E” is for Edgefield pottery. The term “Edgefield pottery” is used to identify alkaline-glazed stoneware first produced in Edgefield District in the 1810s.

Percussion instruments, whether alone or in combination, have always been very useful ingredients for adding flavor and color to orchestral compositions.

“A” is for Aiken County (1,073 square miles; 2020 population: 168,808).

South Carolina barbecue is slowly cooked, hand-pulled, or shredded pork that is flavored with a tangy sauce and usually served with side dishes such as rice, hash, Cole slaw, sweet pickles, white bread, and iced tea.

"B" is for Ball, William Watts [1868-1952]. Newspaper Editor.

If you’ve seen the movie Amadeus, or the play it was based on, you may have gotten the impression that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was some sort of giggling idiot who just happened to be really good at writing music. Nothing, in fact, could be further from the truth.

We tend to be reluctant these days to say that one piece of music is better than another or that one composer is better than another. Often this reluctance is a good idea, especially if the ranking serves no useful purpose, and because “better” is sometimes hard to define. But sometimes the reluctance is a mistake, and it’s a mistake based on confusing taste with judgment.

The American South has experienced remarkable change over the past half century. Black voter registration has increased, the region’s politics have shifted, and in-migration has increased its population many fold. At the same time, many outward signs of regional distinctiveness have faded. But two professors of political science write that these changes have allowed for new types of Southern identity to emerge.

“L” is for Landgraves and cassiques. “Landgrave” and “cassique” were titles given to the local nobility created by the Lords Proprietors in their plans for the settlement of Carolina.

You could write a book about the life of the German composer Georg Philipp Telemann– and as it turns out, Telemann himself wrote three – three separate autobiographies.