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This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Parneet Grewal about healthy diet and lifestyle modifications to lower stroke risk. Dr. Grewal is an Assistant Professor and neurologist in the Comprehensive Stroke Center at MUSC.

“S” is for Saluda River. In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Greenville County, near the North Carolina/South Carolina state line, the North and South Saluda Rivers meet to form the Saluda River.

“T” is for Timrod, Henry (1828-1867). Poet, essayist. A native Charlestonian, Timrod—hedged by poverty, frail health, and the cataclysm of the Civil War—led a brief tubercular life.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Savannah Zimmerman about support & support groups for patients with head & neck cancer. Savannah is a head and neck cancer nurse navigator at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center.

If you make regular contributions to charities each year and you are in your 70s with an IRA, our next guest says you should probably be sending your annual required minimum distributions from that IRA directly to those charities. Mike Switzer interviews Peter Pigeon, a certified financial planner with Hobbs Group Advisors in Columbia, SC.

Three years ago, our next guest’s company lost a customer which made up 90% of their revenue. As a result, they were immediately forced to figure out how to attract much smaller companies to their electronics recycling business. The answer involved new software and surprisingly, COVID. Mike Switzer interviews Brooks Boland, CEO of MSP Disposal in Columbia, SC.

Modern scholars have found that Fasch’s music represents an important transition between the style of the late Baroque period and the “classical” style of Haydn and Mozart.

Antonio Vivaldi’s life story could easily be the subject of a novel.

The word sonata comes from the Italian sonare, an old form of suonare, which means “to sound,” or “to play,” as in “to play an instrument.”

When the 11- and 12-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA all-star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, in July 1955, it put the team and the forces of integration on a collision. White teams refused to take the field with the Cannon Street all-stars, the first Black Little League team in South Carolina.The Cannon Street team won two tournaments by forfeit. If they won the regional tournament in Rome, Georgia, they would have advanced to the Little League World Series. But Little League officials ruled the team ineligible to play in the tournament because they had advanced by winning on forfeit and not on the field, denying the boys their dream. This became a national story for a few weeks but then faded and disappeared altogether as Americans read of other civil rights stories, including the horrific killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till.Chris Lamb, author of The 1955 Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars and Little League Baseball’s Civil War (2022, University of Nebraska Press), and John Rivers, who played shortstop on the All-Stars, join Walter Edgar to tell the story of the Cannon Street all-stars.