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“M” is for Manning (Clarendon County; 2020 population 3,852).

Franz Liszt invented the solo piano recital, and in fact he coined the term “recital,” too.

“I have never seen a musician whose feeling for music filled him to the very finger-tips and flowed directly out from them, as it does with Liszt.”

Rudy shares a section from William Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey.

Schistocerca americana is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae known commonly as the American grasshopper and American bird grasshopper. It is native to North America, where it occurs in the eastern United States, Mexico, and the Bahamas. Occasional, localized outbreaks of this grasshopper occur, and it is often referred to as a locust, though it lacks the true swarming form of its congener, the desert locust (S. gregaria).

Rudy shares some of what he saw on a recent nature walk in Devil's Fork State Park.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Sean Haley about the benefits of getting the flu vaccine (for children and adults). Dr. Haley is the Medical Director for Population Health and he’s a family medicine physician at MUSC.

The King’s Highway was a post road that stretched from Savannah to Maine. The South Carolina section, built between 1739 and 1750, crossed the North Carolina line just above Little River on its way to Georgetown.

Christa Gonzalez of U S C Medical School, Columbia, joined Clemson’s Rural Health Agent Ellie Lane on a recent sMaking It Grow program talking about how access to fresh food and its preparation are critical for our citizens’ health. One in eight South Carolinians has been diagnosed with diabetes and each year a larger percentage joins that group. Gonzalez and Lane talked about the Food Share program available in most of our state – every two weeks participants get a box of fresh food – and recipes on how to prepare healthy meals with those items. Gonzalez leads the culinary medicine program at the medical school in Columbia –all students get some instruction in that topic. Extension’s Rural Health agents have on-going programs helping people control diabetes and hypertension; knowing about Food share can be part of that work.