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George McDaniel served as the Executive Director of Drayton Hall, a mid-18th-century plantation located on the Ashley River near Charleston for more than 25 years. His new book, Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and Its People (2022, Evening Post Books) focuses on this historic site’s recent history, using interviews with descendants (both White and Black), board members, staff, donors, architects, historians, preservationists, tourism leaders, and more to create an engaging picture of this one place.McDaniel talks with Walter Edgar about the never-before-shared family moments, major decisions in preservation and site stewardship, and pioneering efforts to transform a Southern plantation into a site for racial conciliation.

An update of the news, events and issues that are trending right now across South Carolina's business community. Mike Switzer interviews Jason Thomas, executive editor of SCBizNews, the company that publishes the Columbia Regional Business Report, Charleston Regional Business Journal, GSA Business and SCBizNews magazine.

Cryptocurrency has been in the news a lot lately as values have tumbled. Many are still believers though, and may continue to be until the day they die. So what does happen to cryptocurrency assets when someone passes away? Allen Gillespie is our resident crypto expert and managing partner at FinTrust Capital Advisors in Greenville, SC.

After experiencing success as an entrepreneur himself, our next guest turned to teaching and was named one of the top 100 entrepreneurship professors in the world while at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also led their entrepreneurship program to being ranked #1 in the world by Inc. Magazine in 2019. After retiring from teaching, he is now bringing his expertise to our state. Mike Switzer interviews Cliff Holekamp, a board member at SC Launch and co-founder of Cultivation Capital in Greenville, SC.

It occurs to me, when considering the history of music, that the endlessly recurring and often bitter fights over musical styles and trends have actually been quite productive, if only because they’ve acted as spurs for composers in supposedly opposing camps to produce their best work.

Talitridae is a family of amphipods. Terrestrial species are often referred to as landhoppers and beach dwellers are called sandhoppers, beach hoppers, or sand fleas. The name sand flea is misleading, though, because these talitrid amphipods are not siphonapterans (true fleas), do not bite people, and are not limited to sandy beaches.

Xerophyllum asphodeloides is a North American species of flowering plants in the Melanthiaceae known by the common names turkey beard, eastern turkeybeard, beartongue, grass-leaved helonias, and mountain asphodel. It is native to the eastern United States, where it occurs in the southern Appalachian Mountains from Virginia to Alabama, and also in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.

Aplysia fasciata, common name the "mottled sea hare", or the "sooty sea hare", is an Atlantic species of sea hare or sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae. This sea hare occurs in the Western Atlantic from New Jersey to Brazil, and in the Eastern Atlantic including the Mediterranean and the West African coast. They have also been sighted along the Atlantic coast of France.

Mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, are carnivorous marine crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda, branching from other members of the class Malacostraca around 340 million years ago. Mantis shrimp typically grow to around 10 cm (3.9 in) in length, while a few can reach up to 38 cm (15 in).

“J” is for Johnson, David (1782-1855). Jurist, governor. A native of Virginia, Johnson’s family moved to South Carolina in 1789 and settled in Chester District. In 1810 he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives. He was elected a circuit court judge in 1815. In 1824 he was elevated to the Court of Appeals, serving as the presiding judge from 1830 to 1835. When the court ruled the state’s militia test oath law unconstitutional, the legislature abolished the court. Johnson was transferred to the Court of Equity and Court of Appeals in Equity, serving as chief judge until 1846. In 1846 he was unanimously elected governor. A Unionist for much of his career, David Johnson later supported the right of secession but opposed separate state action on the part of South Carolina.