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A listener sees an alligator in the water on Folly Beach. That's not a preferred habitat.

South Carolina cities are doing a lot to spur economic activity. Mike Switzer interviews Alan Cooper, founder and editor of three online business news websites in South Carolina: MidlandsBiz, UpstateBizSC, and LowCountryBizSC.

It was in the 1830's and 40's that a German flutist and flute maker named Theobald Boehm revolutionized flute playing.

For composers, mistaken concepts of progress can be downright dangerous.

The South Carolina Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program ( S A R E) gives small grants for educational events that train the trainer.

In her book, Baptists and Bootleggers: A Prohibition Expedition Through the South (2021, Evening Post Books) Kathryn Smith takes you to major cities and small towns, all of which struggled between the Baptists and their teetotaling allies who preached temperance and the bootleggers who got rich providing what their customers couldn’t buy legally.Smith talks with Walter Edgar about her Prohibition expedition through hotels, bars, speakeasies, museums and cemeteries, and shares some vintage cocktail recipes she picked up along the way.

Ampullariidae, common name the apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks with a gill and an operculum. This family is in the superfamily Ampullarioidea and is the type family of that superfamily. The Ampullariidae are unusual because they have both a gill and a lung, with the mantle cavity being divided in order to separate the two types of respiratory structures. This adaptation allows these snails to be amphibious.Pomacea bridgesii, common names the spike-topped apple snail or mystery snail, is a South American species of apple snail that is considered invasive. Federal law states that it is illegal for apple snails to be imported across state lines.

Each February, for four days, the world comes together for the love of birds. Over these four days people spend time in their favorite places watching and counting as many birds as they can find and reporting them to birdcount.org. These observations help scientists better understand global bird populations before one of their annual migrations.

“S” is for St. Peter’s Parish. In 1747 the Commons House of Assembly established St. Peter’s Parish, bounded on the west by the Savanna River and on the east by the New River.

“W” is for Waxhaws, the Battle of (May 29, 1780). The Battle of the Waxhaws, also known as Buford’s Massacre, was one of the several incidents in the backcountry that helped turn the Revolutionary War in the South into a bloody civil war.