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Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and around the same part of the year in other places.

With the holiday season fast approaching, many families will be gathering together soon. Our next guest thinks that might be a good time to have a family discussion about aging parent care and estate planning. Mike Switzer interviews Jon Robertson, a certified financial planner with Abacus Planning Group in Columbia South Carolina.

"O” is for Orangeburg (Orangeburg County; 2020 population 12,402).

“W” is for Watermelons. Watermelons (Citrullus lanatus) are members of the gourd family native to Africa. Both enslaved Africans and European colonists were probably responsible for first introducing the fruit to South Carolina.

“C” is for Camp Sorghum. In the wake of a yellow fever epidemic among the federal prisoners in Charleston, Confederate authorities transferred some thirteen hundred to fourteen hundred Union officers to the South Carolina interior in late 1864 to prevent them from infecting the local populace.

Galileo, whose full name was Galileo Galilei, was one of the great figures in the history of science. What may surprise you is that Galileo’s father,…

If you explore the history of psychotherapy, you’ll come upon the name Franz Anton Mesmer. Mesmer was born in Germany in 1734, and it was Mesmer who…

I’ve spoken about this before, but the subject seems to come up a lot, so why not go over it again: in America, 99.9 per cent of the people who play the…

Perhaps you’ve thought about this: Bach and Mozart died over two hundred years ago – – Is there anybody alive today whose music will be played two hundred…

Rudy shares a passage from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "American Notebooks."