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Our recently retired, due to illness, Clemson colleague Tony Melton has many constants in his life. For one, he has never stopped being the humble fellow from McBee, South Carolina, who started picking cotton when he was three years old.

Cello students everywhere have struggled with Popper’s “High School of Cello Playing,” a book of études that’s a kind of Mount Everest of cello technique.

“U” is for the University of South Carolina. The institution was originally chartered as South Carolina College in 1801 and opened in 1805. During Reconstruction, the college became a university and was the only Southern university to be integrated.

In his book, The Slow Undoing: The Federal Courts and the Long Struggle for Civil Rights in South Carolina, Dr. Stephen H. Lowe argues for a reconsideration of the role of the federal courts in the civil rights movement. It places the courts as a central battleground at the intersections of struggles over race, law, and civil rights. During the long civil rights movement, Black and White South Carolinians used the courts as a venue to contest the meanings of the constitution, justice, equality, and citizenship.Lowe joins Walter Edgar to discuss how African Americans used courts and direct action in tandem to bring down legal segregation throughout the long civil rights era.

Mike Switzer interviews FatRat Da Czar, co-founder and manager of The Boom Room Recording Studio in Columbia, SC.

In his book, The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 (2020, University of SC Press), Dr. John Navin explains how eight English aristocrats, the Lords Proprietors, came to possess the vast Carolina land grant and then enacted elaborate plans to recruit and control colonists as part of a grand moneymaking scheme. In his conversation with Walter Edgar, Navin tells of a cadre of men who rose to political and economic prominence, while ordinary colonists, enslaved Africans, and indigenous groups became trapped in a web of violence and oppression.Threatened by the Native Americans they exploited, by the Africans they enslaved, and by their French and Spanish rivals, white South Carolinians lived in continual fear. For some it was the price they paid for financial success. But for most there were no riches, and the possibility of a sudden, violent death was overshadowed by the misery of their day-to-day existence.

South Carolina is an ocean state with a significant ocean economy consisting of everything from tourism to boat-building to offshore energy. Our next guest’s organization recently released a report measuring that activity and you may be surprised by some of the statistics.Mike Switzer interviews Matt Gorstein, an economist with the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium in Charleston, SC.

The Revolutionary War Visitor Center in Camden, South Carolina recently opened for business and our next guest is looking forward to it boosting area tourism and economic development.Mike Switzer interviews Suzi Sale, director of tourism & economic development for the City of Camden, South Carolina.

“K” is for King, Susan Dupont Petigru (1824-1875). Author.

Amanda McNulty explains what fairy rings are and they are not from a fantasy book.