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Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C updates us on education improvement efforts across the state. One group he mentions is Listen to us SC.

“R” is for Read, Jacob (ca. 1752-1816). Lawyer, U.S. senator.

“S” is for St. Paul’s Parish. St. Paul’s Parish was one of the original ten parishes created in South Carolina by the Church Act of 1706.

“W” is for Waxhaws. The Waxhaws is an area of vague borders in the lower South Carolina Piedmont. It was named for the Waxhaws, an extinct tribe of Native Americans who once lived in the area.

“B” is for Barhamville Academy. Founded in 1828, Barhamville Academy was the common name for the South Carlina Female Collegiate Institute, an institute for the higher education of women that was located outside of Columbia.

“F” is for First South Carolina Regiment. Elements of what became the First South Carolina Infantry Regiment (later designated the Thirty-third United States Colored Troops) were organized in 1862, giving it the distinction of being the first African American United States Army unit in the Civil War.

Partridge berry, Mitchella repens, is one of the many species first described by Carl Linnaeus.

“C” is for Campbell, Carroll Ashmore, Jr. (1940-2005). Legislator, congressman, governor.

The eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) or eastern screech-owl, is a small owl that is relatively common in Eastern North America, from Mexico to Canada. This species is native to most wooded environments of its distribution, and more so than any other owl in its range, has adapted well to manmade development, although it frequently avoids detection due to its strictly nocturnal habits.

Miscanthus sinensis, the eulalia or Chinese silver grass, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native to eastern Asia throughout most of China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.