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Today is January 27, and it’s Mozart’s birthday. I know I don’t have to tell you how wonderful Mozart’s music is to listen to… but if you’re not a…

Jay Keck, who works for the South Carolina Wildlife Federation, called recently to thank me for re-upping my membership. As we chatted, he told me his…

Today is the birthday of George Washington, so I thought I’d talk about… Alexander Reinagle. And in case this doesn’t seem like the most obvious choice to…

I hope you’ll join me today in celebrating the birthday of Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg on February 3, 1809. By the time he was…

Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. Dogwood anthracnose, with the frightening name Discula distructiva, was…

It’s Beethoven’s birthday today. He was born in Bonn, Germany, on December 16, 1770. Now many people know that at a certain point Beethoven became deaf.…

Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. As our native dogwoods, Cornus florida, became susceptible to numerous…

Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. I’ve been noticing Chickasaw plums on my drive to Sumter recently. I see…

Many musical works, and many composers, fall into obscurity for very good reasons. My colleagues and I have been known to joke about pieces we call…

J.S. Bach composed his St. Matthew Passion in 1727. But for the better part of a century after that, the piece essentially disappeared, unknown to all but…