Pledge drive edition

Friday - February 10, 2012 at 12:00 pm

It's ETV Radio's Spring Membership Drive! So, today we will look back at some of our favorite stories from the past year, and offer you a chance to support Walter Edgar's Journal with your pledge. Today's show will not be podcast.

Preserving the Roadside Stands of Sweetgrass Basket-Makers

Friday - February 17, 2012 at 12:00 pm

The U.S. Highway 17 widening project in Mount Pleasant affects the heart of the traditional sweetgrass basket-making community in South Carolina, and is part of the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, a National Heritage Area, which extends from Wilmington, North Carolina to St. Augustine, Florida.

Working with a number of partners, the town of Mount Pleasant has created a plan to minimize the impact of widening U.S. 17 on the basket- makers’ roadside stands, many of which have been in the same families for generations. Joining Dr. Edgar to tell the story of this unprecedented project are Michael Allen of the National Park Service; Thomasena Stokes-Marshall, Mt. Pleasant Town Council Member and executive director of the Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Festival Association; and a Mt. Pleasant sweetgrass basket-maker.

Voices of Our Ancestors

Friday - February 24, 2012 at 12:00 pm

As language development reflects historical development, linguistics can also serve as an avenue of inquiry into South Carolina's social history from the epoch of Native American primacy to the present day. In her book Voices of Our Ancestors: Language Contact in Early South Carolina, linguist and author Patricia C. Nichols pays particular attention to the development of the Gullah language among the coastal African American peoples and the ways in which this language—and others of South Carolina's early inhabitants—continues to influence the communication and culture of the state's current populations. She joins Dr. Edgar to discuss the book, which provides the first detailed linguistic history of South Carolina. Patricia Nichols is a professor emeritus of linguistics at San Jose State University. She has published at length on Gullah Linguistics and in the cross field of Linguistic Anthropology.

Troxler’s Truckers: Vietnam Memories

Friday - March 02, 2012 at 12:00 pm

In 1968, the 319th Transportation Company, an Army Reserve unit, was sent to fight in the Vietnam War. The unit drew most of its members from the Augusta, GA/Aiken, SC area. During their 11 month tour of duty, they drove their trucks over one million miles delivering ammunition, supplies, and soldiers to bases around South Vietnam. They called themselves “Troxler's Truckers,” after their commanding officer.

Two of Troxler’s Truckers, Arthur Beaufort and Wallace Zealy talk with Dr. Edgar about their unit’s time in Vietnam. They are joined by Jimmy Henderson, who created a documentary film called Troxler’s Truckers: Vietnam Memories.

Saving History: The Prosperity Train Depot
Friday - February 03, 2012 at 12:00 pm

Working South: Artist Mary Whyte
Friday - January 27, 2012 at 12:00 pm

Walter Edgar’s Journal: Jason Scott Luck, Sixth-Generation Potter
Friday - January 20, 2012 at 12:00 pm

The Evolution of the S.C. Republican Presidential Preference Primary
Friday - January 13, 2012 at 12:00 pm