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So here’s the famous riddle: Which came first, the chicken... or the violin? Or the piano? Or the valved horn?

Our next guest’s success in the popcorn, chocolate, and ice cream business has earned her the most recent Female Small Business Person of the Year award from the South Carolina district of the US Small Business Administration. Mike Switzer interviews Kathy Lindell, owner of Simple Treasures in Summerville, SC.

With an epic career that spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) was a historian of singular importance. A brilliant writer, his work captivated both academic and public audiences. He also figured prominently in the major intellectual conflicts between left and right during the last half of the twentieth century. In his fresh and revealing biography, C. Vann Woodward: America's Historian (2022, UNC Press), James Cobb shows, explores how Woodward displayed a rare genius and enthusiasm for crafting lessons from the past that seemed directly applicable to the concerns of the present—a practice that more than once cast doubt on his scholarship. Dr. Cobb talks with Walter Edgar about Woodward and the changing interpretations of Southern history.

I’m grateful for advances in neuroscience, and for many reasons glad that every day we know more about how the brain works. But for all the studies of left brains, right brains, and neuron networks, some things will remain mysteries, and there’s no way around it.

A word of advice today for non-musicians reading program notes in concert programs: If the program notes are heavy on technical analysis and are loaded with terms like modulation, inversion, augmentation, diatonic intervals, chromatic progression, modified sonata form, what have you… ignore them.

“G” is for Georgetown County (815 square miles; 2020 population 63,404). Named in honor of King George III, Georgetown County lies in the fertile plain surrounding Winyah Bay.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John tells us about how the CHIPS Act is putting the Upstate on the map for innovation.

If you feel cramped or overwhelmed, you should visit the Congaree National Park right outside of Columbia. Of its 26,000 acres, the core protected area is fifteen thousand acres.

SCBizNews recently named our next guest’s healthcare staffing company not only one of the fastest growing for 2022 but also one of the best places to work in our state, as well. Mike Switzer interviews Natasha Lee, founder and CEO of Floyd Lee Locums in North Charleston, SC.

Rudy shares Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Flower in the crannied wall..."