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I don’t suppose you have a pair of four-hundred-year-old pliers in your kitchen tool drawer, or a screwdriver made in the 1700s? No, probably not. Tools don’t tend to last that long. The tools of string players, though, are an entirely different story.

The riches that music has to offer, whether in times of great sorrow or great joy, are both incalculable and irreplaceable.

I’ve spoken about this before, but the subject seems to come up a lot, so why not go over it again: in America, 99.9 per cent of the people who play the flute for a living call themselves flutists, not flautists. That’s not a scientific number, but I think it’s pretty accurate.

Rudy Mancke helps a listener identify an animal he saw in his yard.

“J” is for Jones and Lee. Edward Culliatt Jones (1822-1902) and Francis D. Lee (1826-1885) were a leading force in South Carolina architecture in the 1850s.

Natural gas is often listed in the clean energy category. Some people might say a more appropriate moniker would be “cleaner than oil”. But either way, our next guest is plugging away at furthering the growth of the industry as part of a recently formed organization in the Carolinas that represents all parts of the natural gas supply chain, along with public gas entities and economic development groups. Mike Switzer interviews Bruce McKay, a board member of the Carolinas Natural Gas Coalition in Columbia, SC and a senior director of external affairs at Berkshire Hathaway Energy Gas Transmission & Storage in Richmond, VA.

“H” is for Hayne Paul Hamilton (1830-1886). Poet, educator, essayist. Hayne was one of the few in the post-Reconstruction South, respected in academia as a refined poet and cultured man of letters.

Rudy Mancke discusses how certain parasitic wasps use caterpillars to host their eggs.

“S” is for Sassafras Mountain (Pickens County).

Rudy Mancke helps a listener identify a strange-looking caterpillar on his plants.