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"Walter Edgar's Journal" Celebrates the Silver Anniversary
of the Landmark Book, Down by the Riverside

Dr. Walter Edgar Takes His Listeners on a Journey Back in Time
on Friday, Mar. 26 at Noon

For Immediate Release
February 15, 2010

Columbia, SC… In March, Dr. Walter Edgar, host of ETV Radio’s “Walter Edgar’s Journal,” sits down with Dr. Charles Joyner, Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University, to talk about the silver anniversary edition of Joyner’s landmark book, Down by the Riverside.

The program can be heard on all ETV Radio stations on Friday, Mar. 26 at noon. An encore presentation can be heard on Sunday, Mar. 28 at 8 p.m. on ETV Radio’s NPR News formats:

• WRJA – 88.1 in Sumter
• WNSC – 88.9 in Rock Hill
• WLJK – 89.1 in Aiken
• WJWJ – 89.9 in Beaufort
• WHMC – 90.1 in Conway

In Down by the Riverside, Joyner reconstructs the daily life of one of South Carolina’s slave communities. He takes readers on a journey back in time, up the Waccamaw River through the Lowcountry of South Carolina, past abandoned rice fields once made productive by the labor of enslaved Africans, past rice mills and forest clearings into the antebellum world of All Saints Parish. In this slave community, and many others like it, the slaves created a new language, a new religion--indeed, a new culture--from African traditions and American circumstances.

From the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the plantation whites and their guests, from quantitative analysis of census and probate records, and above all from slave folklore and oral history, Joyner has recovered an entire society and its way of life. His careful reconstruction of daily life in All Saints Parish is an inspiring testimony to the ingenuity and solidarity of a people who endured in the face of adversity.

Edgar and Joyner will talk about the anniversary edition of Joyner's book, which includes a new introduction in which the author recounts his process of writing the book, reflects on its critical and popular reception, and surveys the past three decades of scholarship in slave history.

In addition to his writing and teaching, Joyner has been active in the production of films and television and radio programs dealing with the South, including several ETV productions:

• “Legacy of Conflict,” which won the "Award of Distinction" at the North Carolina International Film Festival
• “God's Gonna Trouble the Water,” aired nationally on PBS
• “The Writers Circle,” which won a Governor's Community Service Award in the Humanities

South Carolina ETV is the state's public educational broadcasting network with 11 television and eight radio transmitters, and a multi-media educational system in more than 2,500 schools, colleges, businesses and government agencies. Using television, radio and the web, SCETV's mission is to enrich lives by educating children, informing and connecting citizens, celebrating our culture and environment and instilling the joy of learning.

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For more information, contact Rob Schaller at (803) 737-6556 or rschaller@scetv.org.