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“B” is for Boonesborough Township. Boonesborough was one in the second wave of townships that South Carolina laid out during the mid-eighteenth century to defend her frontier from the Cherokee.

Aug. 29, 2025

Mike Switzer interviews Kirby Player with the Palmetto Leadership for the Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (PLEAF) program at Clemson University.

“B” is for Bosc, Louis Augustin Guillaume (1759-1828). Naturalist.

This fall we are celebrating 25 years of Walter Edgar’s Journal!We thought that a good way to start that celebration would be to look back on the launch of our podcast. So, this week we bring you an encore of our final *broadcast* episode of May 2023.Our guest was the Director of SC Public Radio, Sean Birch. We reminisced about the Journal’s beginnings and present highlights from our years on the air. And we talked about how morphing Walter Edgar’s Journal from a weekly broadcast into a semi-monthly podcast would allow us to focus more intently on our mission to explore South Carolina’s history and its culture.

“W “is for Women's suffrage. The earliest suffrage clubs in the state were not organized until the 1890s but suffragists were beginning to receive notice.

Mike Switzer interviews Tim Kennedy, president of Trident Construction in Charleston, SC.

Sept. 4, 2025