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This week Bobbi Conner talks with Maegan Manson about managing diabetes during pregnancy and preconception. Maegan is a nurse practitioner who works with pregnant women in the Management of Maternal Diabetes (MOMS) program at MUSC.

“D” is for Dixie Hummingbirds. Started in 1928 by twelve-year-old James Davis and neighborhood friends Bonnie Gipson, Jr., Fred Owens, and Barney Parks, the gospel quartet—and later quintet (with the addition of Ira Tucker)—influenced scores of gospel, soul, and rock and roll artists.

It’s not often we hear of a local start-up raising big money from outside the state, but that is what has happened with our next guest’s socially-minded e-commerce company, which has received $750,000 so far this year, most of which has come from a Cleveland-based venture capital firm. Mike Switzer interviews Jeff Spencer, CEO and co-founder of Playfora, in the Boyd Innovation Center in Columbia, S.C.

“E” is for Erskine College. In 1836 the General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church organized an academy in Due West.

The holiday decorations at Colonial Williamsburg are knock your socks off beautiful, but not historically accurate. Christmas decorations weren’t a big deal during those early times and citrus and pineapples would have been prohibitively expensive.

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for November 7, 2023, the third Republican presidential debate takes place tonight in Miami; the South Carolina “first in the nation” Democratic presidential primary happens on Feb. 3; and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis scores a major endorsement.

If you heard our recent interview with Laura Hutchinson who runs the Advanced Manufacturing and Skills Trade school at Midlands Technical College, you might remember her mentioning that the building construction class won the 2022 national championship and placed second in the nation this year. And so today, we have on the phone the director of that program. Mike Switzer interviews Robbie Sharpe, the Building Construction Program Director at Midlands Technical College in Columbia, S.C.

Rudy Mancke helps a listener in Myrtle Beach identify a metallic beetle they found.

“W” is for Whitten, Benjamin Otis (1886-1970). Physician. When Whitten retired in 1965, Whitten Village (as the facility was called) had a resident population of more than 2,500.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Mary Hart Bryan about depression in the older adult years. Dr. Bryan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a geriatric psychiatrist at MUSC.