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"S" is for Smith, William (ca. 1762-1840). U.S. Senator.

"S" is for Smyth, Ellison Adger (1847-1942).

Timmonsville native Johnny D. Boggs has worked cattle, been bucked off horses, shot rapids in a canoe, hiked across mountains and deserts, traipsed around ghost towns, and spent hours poring over microfilm in library archives -- all in the name of finding a good story. He was won a record nine Spur Awards from Western Writers of America, a Western Heritage Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and has been called by Booklist magazine "among the best western writers at work today."He joins Walter Edgar to talk about his career, his love of the American West, and about his new book, The Cobbler of Spanish Fort and Other Frontier Stories (2022, Five Star Publishing).

Our state is home to the oldest daily newspaper in the South. Just in case you didn’t know. And that newspaper recently received not only 84 awards from the South Carolina Press Association but also first-place honors in the prestigious National Headliner Awards from the Press Club of Atlantic City.Mike Switzer interviews Autumn Phillips, executive editor at the Post and Courier in Charleston, SC. Disclaimer: The Post and Courier has a business relationship with Voterheads.com, a wholly-owned company of Magnolia Media, Inc., the producer of this program.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John shares his insights from the recent SC SmartState forum.

Inflation and interest rates continue to dominate investor conversations these days. In fact, our next guest says that two of the biggest questions he is hearing from his clients in this market environment are: “Will inflation continue to be elevated?” and “Is there any safe place to earn more yield?” Mike Switzer interviews Stephen “Scotty” Scott, a certified financial planner with Abacus Planning Group in Columbia, SC.

The Open Space Institute’s mission is to protect scenic, natural, and historic landscapes to provide public enjoyment, conserve habitat and working lands, and sustain communities. Over the past 40 years, the institute has saved 2,285,092 acres of land through direct acquisition, grants, and loans. Having begun by focusing on land in New York State, they have in recent years saved significant, complex, and large-scale tracts in South Carolina, Florida, and New Jersey through direct acquisitions.In December 2022, the Open Space Institute (OSI) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) announced the purchase of three properties along the Santee River in South Carolina, expanding the largest contiguous block of protected coastal lands in the state. OSI’s Vice-President and Director of the Southeast, Maria Whitehead, joins Walter Edgar to talk about the acquisition and about the Institute’s plans for land protection in the state.

Fringetrees (Chionanthus spp.) are small, deciduous ornamental trees. Two species are available, the native white fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus) and the Chinese fringetree (Chionanthus retusus.) The botanical name translates as snow flower, an excellent description of the fluffy, white flowers that cover fringetrees in bloom. White fringetree, also known as Grancy graybeard or old man’s beard, is native throughout South Carolina and the southeastern United States. Chinese fringetree is native to eastern Asia. Both species are adapted to all areas of South Carolina.

Rudy celebrates spring with some poetic thoughts from Oliver Wendell Holmes and from Tom Hood's Song (O lady, leave thy silken thread...).

“R” is for Regulators. The Regulators were backcountry settlers who banded together in 1767 in response to a crime wave that swept their region in the aftermath of the disruptive war with the Cherokee Indians (1759-1761).