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Prothonotary warblers have strong site fidelity. Although they have a large nesting area in the US, individual birds return to the place of their birth.

The Prothonotary warbler is sometimes called the swamp canary. These small birds are a brilliant yellow with bluish-grey green wings and a black eye that’s very striking on the yellow head. Males are a more intense yellow than females.

What is so rare as a day in June? A broad-headed skink is not rare, but, it is a great sight on a day in June.

On this episode of Spoleto Backstage, we speak with Jessica Meyer, violist and 2021 Spoleto Chamber Music Series composer in residence, and hear her compositions featured in this year's series. We're also joined by violinist Livia Sohn, for whom Meyer wrote the new composition "From Our Ashes," to chat about the piece and returning to public performance after personal setbacks.

If you are an inventor or potential inventor with what you believe could be a great, new, and profitable idea, you probably are aware of organizations out there that offer assistance. We’ve just learned of another one that is specific to our state.Mike Switzer interviews Adrian Pelkus, director of the South Carolina Inventors Forum in Lexington, SC.This is a repeat of an earlier episode of the SC Business Review which aired originally on Jan. 22, 2021.

An update of the news, events and issues that are trending right now across South Carolina's business community.Mike Switzer interviews Alan Cooper, founder and editor of three online business news websites in South Carolina: MidlandsBiz, UpstateBizSC, and LowCountryBizSC. Disclaimer: Alan Cooper’s company has a business relationship with Voterheads.com, a wholly-owned company of Magnolia Media, which is the producer of the South Carolina Business Review.

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for May 29, 2021: emergency experts weigh in on the 2021 hurricane season, which starts next week; the controversial Heritage Act goes before the state Supreme Court; Charleston County settles with the family of Jamal Sutherland; and more.

“P” is for Palmetto Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association. Throughout the nineteenth century African American physicians in South Carolina faced hostility from the white community, received the worst patients, were barred from hospitals and clinics, and lacked access to many medications and supplies. In 1896, Dr. C.C. Johnson of Aiken and other black physicians organized the Palmetto Medical Association. The association’s goals were to improve health care for African Americans and to graduate more medically trained professionals. In the 1940s the association called for black practitioners to be hired by tax-supported institutions and for African American representation on the board of the S.C. Department of Health. The group had changed its name to the Palmetto Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association by the 1950s and spent the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s raising monies to educate talented African Americans.

“S” is for St. James Santee Parish. The parish of St. James Santee was established in 1706, and included the northeastern portions of modern Berkeley and Charleston Counties. It was one of the original ten parishes created under the Church Act of 1706. Among the earliest settlers in the 1680s were Huguenots who were attracted to South Carolina by the promise of religious and political freedom. For decades the rector of the parish was required to be able to preach and speak in both English and French. Early experiments with silk, grapes, and olives were unsuccessful, but in the eighteenth century rice and indigo “poured streams of wealth into the pockets of the French planters.” With the abolition of the parish system in 1865, St. James Santee Parish became a part of Berkeley County.

Epimecis hortaria, the tulip-tree beauty, is a moth species of the Ennominae subfamily found in North America. It is found throughout New England south to Florida and west to Texas and Missouri. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794. They can be seen flying from late March to early October. Adults are nocturnal and are attracted to lights. The immature caterpillars can be found feeding on Magnolia, Asimina, Populus, Sassafras and Liriodendron.