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When Hurricane Hugo came through South Carolina, Sumter County was really hit hard. The magnificent Swan Lake Gardens lost several hundred pine trees exposing camellias and azaleas to unwelcome sunlight. But only a few bald cypresses were lost. If you come across a young bald cypress, shake it and you’ll find that is flexible, even adult trees are not brittle like pines. The ones in water with their interlacing knees have a giant support system in play protecting them against strong winds, even hurricanes. In ice storms, they again have an advantage over pines as they are deciduous and have no needles for the ice to accumulate on and cause the trunks to break. You can grow bald cypress in a regular landscape – they don’t make knees in ordinary soils – just buy a bale of long-leaf pinestraw for mulch.

Celebrities from Bill Murray to Blake Lively are fans of our next guest’s feather fashion accessory business. And now, so is Garden and Gun magazine as the company was the recent winner in the Style category of the magazine’s annual Made in the South awards program. Mike Switzer interviews Ben Ross, co-founder of Brackish in Charleston, SC.

“E” is for Ebenezer colony

“F” is for Female benevolent societies

Chairs that are too low, too high, too hard, too slippery, or with seats tilted backward… they’re the bane of musicians’ existence.

A “brass quintet” consists of two trumpets, French horn, trombone, and tuba. I attended a concert by a brass quintet the other day, and I was struck by a…

It’s often easier to say what classical music is not, than to say what it is.

January 11, 2022 — A look at Gov. Henry McMaster's budget priorities; a preview of what's on tap this week as state lawmakers return to session; Prisma Health doctors share what they're seeing on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemics; and more.

“G is for Gantt, Harvey (b. 1943)

“H” is for Hamilton, Paul (1762-1816)