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You may not know this but colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the US. This is particularly troublesome to the medical community because it is a disease that is highly curable if detected early through a colonoscopy. Increasing that concern is the fact that, since the pandemic, colorectal cancer screening has plummeted by 86%. Our next guest is trying to do something about this situation by bringing artificial intelligence into the equation. Mike Switzer interviews Margarita Murphy, a surgeon and medical director at the Colorectal Endosurgery Institute of the Carolinas in Mt. Pleasant, SC.

Tourism is a very big part of our state’s economy which is why tourist attractions here continue to be encouraged and developed. Our next guest is going to tell us about a new one. Mike Switzer interviews Doug Bostick, executive director of the South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust which is developing the Liberty Trail.

“E” is for Eikerenkoetter, Frederick Joseph II (1935-2009). Clergyman, educator.

Little is known about tuba player Pete Briggs, one of the earliest musicians from South Carolina to make a name for themselves.

If there is a signature dance of the Jazz Age of the 1920s, it is the Charleston.

Early in the twentieth century, for-profit companies such as Duke Power and South Carolina Electric and Gas brought electricity to populous cities and towns across South Carolina, while rural areas remained in the dark. It was not until the advent of publicly owned electric cooperatives in the 1930s that the South Carolina countryside was gradually introduced to the conveniences of life with electricity. Today, electric cooperatives serve more than a quarter of South Carolina's citizens and more than seventy percent of the state's land area.In his book, Empowering Communities: How Electric Cooperatives Transformed Rural South Carolina (USC Press, 2022), Dr. Lacy K. Ford and co-author Jared Bailey tell the story of the rise of "public" power – electricity serviced by member-owned cooperatives and sanctioned by federal and state legislation. It is a complicated saga, encompassing politics, law, finance, and rural economic development, of how the cooperatives helped bring fundamental and transformational change to the lives of rural people in South Carolina, from light to broadband.Ford talks with Dr. Edgar about how rural electrification , combined with the paving of roads, and funding of public schools, helped transform bring the Palmetto State into the modern world.

Over eighty string instruments owned by European Jews before and during the Holocaust have been carefully restored by violin makers Amnon and Avshi Weinstein. For the next several weeks, South Carolinians will be able to see these instruments and hear them played in a range of concerts, presentations, and exhibits across the state.

Singer and guitarist Freddie 'Pepper' Green was born in Charleston, SC in 1911.

Earnest Evans, born in the Spring Gully community of Georgetown, SC, is better known by his equally alliterative stage name: Chubby Checker.

To make an arrangement of a musical composition is to rewrite the composition for a new set of musical forces—to rewrite a wind quintet for string quartet, for example, or to transform a string quartet into a piano trio.