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Claude Debussy often performed his own works, but he tended to get nervous, and he didn’t enjoy playing in public. And yet by all accounts Debussy was a wonderful pianist, especially noted for his remarkable “touch” at the keyboard.

In his new book, Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (2021, Simon and Schuster), Dr. Woody Holton gives a sweeping reassessment of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.Using more than a thousand eyewitness accounts, Holton explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers.Woody Holton joins Walter Edgar to talk about this “hidden history.”

In collaboration with composer Michael Abels and the Kronos Quartet, the South Carolina poet focuses on the interiority of the African American experience in At War With Ourselves - 400 Years of You.

Enyo lugubris, the mournful sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Argentina and Paraguay to Uruguay, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and the West Indies through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama to Mexico and the United States, where it has been recorded from Arizona east to Florida and north to South Carolina. Strays have been recorded from Arkansas, north to Illinois, Michigan and New York.

The southern black racer (Coluber constrictor priapus) is one of the more common subspecies of the non-venomous Coluber constrictor snake species of the Southeastern United States. The subspecific name priapus refers to the proximal spines of the hemipenes being much enlarged into basal hooks, which is characteristic of this subspecies. These snakes are quite active during the day, which increases the chance of sightings. They eat almost any animal they can overpower, including rodents, frogs, toads, and lizards. Members of this species generally do not tolerate handling – even after months in captivity – and typically strike and flail wildly every time they are handled, often defecating a foul-smelling musk, a common defense against predators in snakes.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C.

What I somehow hear in Mozart, whether in his operas or his instrumental works, is a kind of fundamental optimism.

“F” is for Finney, Ernest Adolphus, Jr. (1931-2017). Lawyer, jurist, educator.

“G” is for Gaskins, Donald Henry (1931-1991). Serial Killer.

Each year, Inc magazine ranks 5,000 companies in the US according to percentage revenue growth over a 3 year period. And each year, many companies in our state make the list of these fastest growing enterprises. Our next guest’s company made the list with an average annual growth rate of 158% due to the demand for their diesel engine diagnostic software. Mike Switzer interviews Tyler Robertson, CEO of Diesel Laptops in Irmo, SC.