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The South Carolina Botanical Garden is a treasure located on the campus of Clemson University.

An update of the news, events and issues that are trending right now across South Carolina's business community.

“H” is for Highway 301. The highway’s many nicknames are an indication that it was popular among tourists: “Tobacco Trail,” “Highway of Southern Hospitality,” “Tourist Highway,” “Shortest Route from Maine to Florida,” and “The Washington-Florida Short Route.”

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for March 2, 2024: host Gavin Jackson checks in from Washington, D.C. and closes out his coverage the South Carolina 2024 Republican presidential primary.

This week we talk with Claudia Smith Brinson about her new book, Injustice in Focus: The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams (2023, USC Press). Claudia's rich research, interviews, and prose, offer a firsthand account of South Carolina's fight for civil rights and tells the story of Cecil Williams's life behind the camera. The book also features eighty of William’s photographs.Cecil Williams is one of the few Southern Black photojournalists of the civil rights movement. Born and raised in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Williams worked at the center of emerging twentieth-century civil rights activism in the state, and his assignments often exposed him to violence perpetrated by White law officials and ordinary citizens. Williams's story is the story of the civil rights era.

We know about the crisis of people without homes but there is also a crisis for cavity-nesting birds.

Host Amanda McNulty of Making It Grow sees the natural beauty of the Wateree floodplain during her daily commute.

Not all banks are willing to take the risks of making small business loans in economically depressed areas or to low-income entrepreneurs. Which is one reason our next guest’s nonprofit financial institution exists.

A local oyster farm is making a lot of headway in the industry through the relatively new practice of growing oysters in floating cages.

“H” is for Hibernian Hall (Charleston). Designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas U. Walter, Hibernian Hall is among the most significant examples of Greek Revival in Charleston.