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An unusual bird, looking a little bit like a tanager, arrives in a listener's backyard. But, the coloring isn't right. The bird is an immature, male tanager, whose color quite different from a mature male's.

“K” is for Kilgo, James Patrick (1941-2002). Essayist, novelist.

In his book, The Virtue of Cain: From Slave to Senator (2021, Rocky Pond Press), Kevin Cherry focuses on the short but extraordinary life of Reconstruction era Senator Lawrence Cain of Edgefield, South Carolina. Cherry, Cain's great great-grandson, also tells the contemporaty story of a family with Southern roots, long identified as having some American indian ancestry, re-discovering their true heritage.

A listener reports two kingsnakes twined about each other. But, these powerful constrictors are not fighting - they're mating.

“A” is for African Theological Archministry, Inc. (Oyotunji Village).

The common whitetail or long-tailed skimmer (Plathemis lydia) is a common dragonfly across much of North America, with a striking and unusual appearance.

The golden silk spider is an orb-weaving spider species which inhabits forests and wooded areas ranging from the southern US to Argentina.

In music, everything belongs to everybody – and that’s a beautiful thing.

Last summer, as a national reckoning around racial injustice took place, a statue of John C. Calhoun was removed in downtown Charleston, just a block from Mother Emanuel AME Church, where a white supremacist killed nine black parishioners in 2015. South Carolina is a state filled with monuments, memorials and buildings named after controversial historical figures. On the next edition of our quarterly series Palmetto Perspectives, host Thelisha Eaddy and a diverse panel of experts discuss the challenge of balancing historical recognition with celebrating what as a painful past for so many. Thursday, July 15, at 7:00 pm on SCETV and South Carolina Public Radio.

The colors of this bird can range from pale pink to bright magenta, depending on age, whether breeding or not, and location. Unlike herons, spoonbills fly with their necks outstretched.