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“U” is for United Textile Workers of America (UTWA)

“A” is for African Methodist Episcopal Church Zion

Visit all forty-seven state parks and you can become a member of a special group eligible for programs offered just for super dedicated park visitors.

Park Ranger John Wells wants more people to enjoy the magic of Goodale State Park near Camden. It’s free to enter – call at noon if you want to speak with a ranger about amenities or rentals.

At Goodale State Park John Nelson and I examined the plant community growing on the swollen bases of pond cypress trees, Taxodium ascendens, rather than the better-known bald cypress, Taxodium disitichum.

“T” is for Tega Cay (York County; 2020 population 12, 273).

“B” is for the Bank of the State of South Carolina (BSSC)

General U.S. history courses in many high schools depict the American Revolutionary War as a series of battles in the Northeast - Lexington, Concord, Bunker Hill, etc. - that lead inexorably to British General Charles Cornwallis's surrender of 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a French and American force at Yorktown, Virginia, October 19, 1781. The truth is much more complicated, of course. A major component of the war, one that paved the way to Yorktown, was the fighting that took place in 1780 - 81 in the South - especially in South Carolina. In essence, according to Dr. Jack Warren and Dr. Walter Edgar, the war was won in the South.

One older, common name of trumpet creeper vine is "cow itch."

Like many19th-century composers, Robert Schumann often gave his works picturesque titles. Schumann’s Scenes from Childhood, for example, a set of pieces for solo piano, includes pieces with titles such as “Pleading Child,” and “Frightening.” How literally should we take these titles – and perhaps the picturesque titles of other composers’ works?