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Partridge berry, Mitchella repens, is one of the many species first described by Carl Linnaeus.

“C” is for Campbell, Carroll Ashmore, Jr. (1940-2005). Legislator, congressman, governor.

“E” is for Education Accountability Act (1998). The Education Accountability Act (EAA) placed South Carolina in the mainstream of education accountability reform.

“B” is for Barhamville Academy. Founded in 1828, Barhamville Academy was the common name for the South Carlina Female Collegiate Institute, an institute for the higher education of women that was located outside of Columbia.

“F” is for First South Carolina Regiment. Elements of what became the First South Carolina Infantry Regiment (later designated the Thirty-third United States Colored Troops) were organized in 1862, giving it the distinction of being the first African American United States Army unit in the Civil War.

The eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) or eastern screech-owl, is a small owl that is relatively common in Eastern North America, from Mexico to Canada. This species is native to most wooded environments of its distribution, and more so than any other owl in its range, has adapted well to manmade development, although it frequently avoids detection due to its strictly nocturnal habits.

Clean air and clean surfaces have certainly increased in importance during the pandemic. Our next guest’s company recently received some recognition in this area for their ultraviolet light disinfection technology. Mike Switzer interviews Carolyn Cooke, a vice president with Diversey in Fort Mill, SC. The company’s Moonbeam product was the recent winner of Innovision’s Technology Integration award.

Our country’s employment situation remains in a quagmire with millions fewer unemployed now than when the pandemic started but yet companies are still struggling to find qualified workers. One explanation has been that many people have decided to simply change careers and this is being referred to as the “Great Resignation”. Our next guest says he thinks he knows why this is happening. Mike Switzer interviews Franklin Buchanan, founder of Post Up Careers in Aiken, SC.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John talks about Clemson’s John Ballato achieving notoriety in glass research.

The image of the starving artist may be a romantic one, but it turns out that poverty has not always been a necessary condition for writing great music. Sometimes, in fact, great music has gone along with great wealth.