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In Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom and Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands (USC Press, 2021) musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah/Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah culture in the lowcountry and sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, some traditions like the shouting and rowing songs have been all but forgotten. Crawford talks with Walter Edgar about his work, which focuses primarily on South Carolina's St. Helena Island, illuminates the remarkable history, survival, and influence of spirituals since the earliest recordings in the 1860s.

We’ve entered the final quarter of 2021 and so far so good for our economy. Should we expect the stability and growth to continue?Mike Switzer interviews Joey Von Nessen, chief economist at the Darla Moore School of Business at USC in Columbia, SC. Economic Outlook Conference Dec 7, 2021

With the opioid crisis continuing in this country, the need for solutions also continues. Our next guest is a pharmacist in the Upstate who recently opened an addiction treatment center in an effort to help addicts recover through medication therapy.Mike Switzer interviews Don Viets, owner and program sponsor at Ascent Recovery Solutions in Simpsonville, SC.

On this edition of the South Carolina Lede for October 12, 2021, we look at criminal justice reform trends in the state, the multitude of reasons why energy prices are rising, the debate over natural immunity to COVID-19, and much more.

Some listeners in Greenville come upon a northern water snake having a meal...

The spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) is a small chorus frog widespread throughout the eastern United States and Canada.

Some listeners find a skull at Lake Wateree State Park...

A part of our celebration of Walter Edgar's Journal at 21 we present an encore from 2014, with guest John Shelton Reed, talking about his book, Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s.In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with low rent, a faded charm, and colorful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square became the center of a vibrant but short-lived bohemia. A young William Faulkner and his roommate William Spratling, an artist who taught at Tulane, were among the "artful and crafty ones of the French Quarter." In Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s (LSU Press, 2012) John Shelton Reed introduces Faulkner's circle of friends ranging from the distinguished Sherwood Anderson to a gender-bending Mardi Gras costume designer and brings to life the people and places of New Orleans in the jazz age.

For most of the last two decades, our next guest has been busy helping companies find locations for their factories and offices. What are companies looking for these days, has anything changed since the pandemic, and is our state a good business location state?Mike Switzer interviews Didi Caldwell, president and founding principal of Global Location Strategies in Greenville, SC. Their site selection app is site shepherd.

Exotic non-native reptiles, especially lizards, are very popular. One has become a serious threat to our native wildlife in South Carolina.