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“F” is for Fenwick Hall (Johns Island)

Today’s audio comes from the recent ‘Investing in Sustainability Webinar Series’ hosted by The Nature Conversancy and Sustain SC, which was funded by the Bridgestone Americas Trust Fund.Mike Switzer was the moderator for this event and today’s excerpt comes from his conversation with Mike Grainey, vice president of global development with the Charleston Regional Development Alliance.

Today’s audio comes from the recent ‘Investing in Sustainability Webinar Series’ hosted by The Nature Conversancy and Sustain SC, which was funded by the Bridgestone Americas Trust Fund.Mike Switzer was the moderator for this event and today’s excerpt comes from his conversation with Taylor Jackson, director of SC Logistics at the South Carolina Council on Competitiveness.

What were once known as black ratsnakes are now called eastern ratsnakes. Yellow ratsnakes are a sub species.

Most millipedes have very elongated cylindrical or flattened bodies with more than 20 segments. Although the name "millipede" derives from the Latin for "thousand feet", no known species has 1,000; the record of 750 legs belongs to Illacme plenipes.

“D” is for Dark Corner. By the 1990s, a stream of affluent new residents had discovered the spectacular mountain vistas of the remote, rugged Dark Corner.

The New Deal was a collection of federal programs enacted between 1933 and 1939 to solve the problems created by the Great Depression. It had a great impact in South Carolina.

Of the 1,048 men enrolled in the Palmetto Regiment, 441 did not return home from the Mexican War.

A native of Charleston, Charles “Pug” Ravenel was a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Business School. In 1974 he won the Democratic Party’s nomination for governor. However, the state Supreme Court ruled that he did not meet South Carolina’s residency requirements and he was off the ballot.

St. John’s Colleton Parish was established in 1734. The new parish consisted of Johns, Wadmalaw, Edisto, Seabrook, and Kiawah Islands.