http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/ From beach music to barbecue, Walter Edgar's Journal delves into South Carolina's past and provides insight into the state's current affairs. en alfturner@scetv.org Copyright 2013 2013-06-28T04:00:59+00:00 http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/jeffersons_freeholders/ http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/jeffersons_freeholders/#When:04:00:59Z Dr. Christopher Curtis’ new book, Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion (Cambridge University Press, 2012), explores the political transformation of citizenship from an agrarian republic to a 19th century, slave-owning state.  Curtis, Chair of the Department of History and Sociology at Claflin University, talks with Dr. Edgar about the manner in which changing conceptions of property and changes in the legal system at once underpinned and reinforced changes in politics and the political order in one key southern state. 2013-06-28T04:00:59+00:00 http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/usc_lancaster_native_american_studies_center/ http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/usc_lancaster_native_american_studies_center/#When:04:01:32Z (Originally broadcast 01/18/13) - USC Lancaster's new Native American Studies Center is opened in October, the only Native American Studies Program in the USC system.  The center features 6000 sq feet of gallery space, an oral history recording studio, a Catawba language lab, an archive with photos, documents and recordings of SC tribes and an archaeology lab.  It houses the world's largest collection of Catawba pottery. Dr. Stephen Criswell, the Director of the Center, and Dr. Chris Judge, Assistant Director, join Dr. Edgar to talk about it. 2013-06-21T04:01:32+00:00 http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/city_year_-_20_years_of_service_in_south_carolina/ http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/city_year_-_20_years_of_service_in_south_carolina/#When:04:01:03Z In 1992, while a student at Harvard Law, the former Student Body President of the University of South Carolina, Marie-Louise Ramsdale, attended an event called Serve-a-thon for City Year. Inspired by City Year and the 10,000 people performing transformational service , she returned that night to the computer lab at Harvard and wrote a two-page proposal to bring the program to Columbia, SC. Inspired by her passion and determination, the cofounders, Alan Khazei and Michael Brown, founded City Year Columbia in the summer of 1993.  Ramsdale joins City Year Columbia 2013 corps member Emily Williams, and the Honorable Richard W. Riley, former SC Governor and former Secretary of Education, to talk with Walter Edgar about 20 years of service in the Midlands by City Year Columbia. “Give a year. Change the World.” 2013-06-14T04:01:03+00:00 http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/paul_zimmerman_everyday_roses/ http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/paul_zimmerman_everyday_roses/#When:04:01:23Z Paul Zimmerman is dedicated to teaching that “Roses are plants, too.” It’s a philosophy that guides his company, Paul Zimmerman Roses, his work as Director of the Biltmore® International Rose Trials, and is at the heart of his new book, Everyday Roses – How To Grow Knockout And Other Easy-Care Garden Roses  (Taunton Press, 2013). He joins Dr. Edgar to talk about his work, the new book, and to help dispel the myths about what it takes to grow great roses. 2013-06-07T04:01:23+00:00 http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/upstate_forever/ http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/upstate_forever/#When:04:01:42Z Upstate Forever is a non-profit organization which envisions an "environmentally and economically prosperous region, with a high quality of life for all."  Executive Director Brad Wyche talks with Dr. Edgar about how group works to promote sensible growth while protecting the special places in the 10 counties of Upstate South Carolina. 2013-05-31T04:01:42+00:00 http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/man_mission_moffatt_burriss_the_crossing/ http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/man_mission_moffatt_burriss_the_crossing/#When:04:01:44Z (Originally broadcast 06/29/12) - Anderson native T. Moffatt Burris is a WWII veteran and concentration camp liberator who also participated in the invasions of Sicily and Italy. During Operation Market Garden in Holland, he led the amphibious assault across the Waal River made famous in the movie, A Bridge Too Far. Burriss is the subject of the upcoming ETV special Man and Moment: T. Moffatt Burriss and the Crossing. He joins Dr. Edgar, State newspaper reporter Jeff Wilkinson, and documentary producer Lee Ann Kornegay, to talk about the war and about making the film. 2013-05-24T04:01:44+00:00 http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/conversations_on_the_civil_war_-_1863_mary_chesnuts_civil_war/ http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/conversations_on_the_civil_war_-_1863_mary_chesnuts_civil_war/#When:04:01:02Z Julia Stern, professor of English and American Studies at Northwestern University and author of Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic, will "unpack the way in which at levels domestic, historical and epic, Chesnut's literary genius uniquely illuminated the greatest conflict of the American 19th century." Her conversation with Dr. Edgar was recorded before an audience at the University of South Carolina, part of the series Conversations on the Civil War, 1863, sponsored by USC's College of Arts and Sciences, and by USC's Office of the President. 2013-05-17T04:01:02+00:00 http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/ellen_schlaefer_-_for_the_love_of_opera/ http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/ellen_schlaefer_-_for_the_love_of_opera/#When:04:01:14Z Growing up in Columbia, Ellen Douglas Schlaefer never dreamed that she would one day direct operatic productions for some of the great opera companies around the world. But, she has. And now she brings her energy and talent to Opera at USC, one of only a handful of colleges and universities in the country that offer special training and practice for aspiring opera stage directors. Schlaefer is also the creator of the non-profit FBN Productions, which brings especially commissioned operas for children into schools around the southeast. 2013-05-10T04:01:14+00:00 http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/romantic_spirits_nineteenth_century_paintings_of_the_south_from_the_jo/ http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/romantic_spirits_nineteenth_century_paintings_of_the_south_from_the_jo/#When:04:01:15Z Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings of the South from the Johnson Collection (Cane Ridge/USC Press, 2013) is a lavishly illustrated volume exploring romanticism in iconic Southern masterworks. Many of the artists under consideration in the book created works of art that have achieved iconic status in the annals of painting in the South, including William Dickinson Washington, William Thompson Russell Smith, Gustave Henry Mosler, Thomas Addison Richards, Joseph Rusling Meeker, Robert Walter Weir, and Thomas Sully. In this study of thirty-two artists represented in the Johnson Collection, noted art historian Estill Curtis Pennington delineates the historical, social, and cultural forces that profoundly influenced their aesthetic sensibilities. Walter’s guests, Martha Severens, art historian and curator; and collector Susu Johnson, talk with him about the art of the era and about the Johnson Collection, as well as the book and the Romantic Spirits exhibition at the Morris Museum in Augusta, Georgia. 2013-05-03T04:01:15+00:00 http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/conversations_on_the_civil_war_-_1863_the_fight_for_charleston/ http://www.scetv.org/index.php/walter_edgars_journal/show/conversations_on_the_civil_war_-_1863_the_fight_for_charleston/#When:04:01:11Z In the summer of 1863 three major campaigns occurred that affected the outcome of the Civil War. Two of three, Gettysburg and Vicksburg were dramatic turning points, while a third campaign directed against Charleston, South Carolina, proved instrumental for the Civil War but also future battles. The campaign introduced a new era of engineering and gunnery; it was a testing ground for African American troops and had a tremendous impact on life in Charleston and the Palmetto State. Dr. Stephen R. Wise, curator of the Parris Island Museum of Marine Corps History, is author of Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running during the Civil War (USC Press) and Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863 (USC Press). He talks with Dr. Edgar about the Battle for Charleston, and about blockade runners, in a presentation that is part of the series “Conversations on the Civil War, 1863,” held at USC, Columbia, in January and February, 2013. The series was sponsored by the USC College of Arts and Sciences. 2013-04-26T04:01:11+00:00