Connie Robinette

Jazz pianist Marian McPartland performed professionally since the 1930’s, at clubs and concert halls around the globe and on scores of recordings. To millions of radio listeners, she is also the host of Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, the popular Peabody Award winning...

From this latest trip into the tape vault, we find a segment of the nightly public affairs series Carolina Journal where Executive Producer Tom Fowler highlights coverage of Pope John Paul II’s visit to South Carolina on September 11, 1987. The event was occasioned by the...

Sandlapper's Corner introduces us to several important people in the history of South Carolina! In 1666, Dr. Henry Woodward proved very valuable to the South Carolina colony because he established trade with the Native Americans among other accomplishments. He had come as a...

In this Sandlapper's Corner, we learn about the American Revolution and about life in the colonies during that period in time. The colonists refused to buy goods that were taxed, including tea and stamps and nothing would do but freedom. This lesson discusses the sequence of...

In this Sandlapper's Corner lesson, the children are asked to imagine how they would have lived, if they had lived in South Carolina in the 1700s. They see children "living" in several different homes at different times during this century. Each visit to a home is a history...

On this segment of Sandlapper's Corner, we learn about explorers and settlers and how much we learn about them from the way they dressed, the way they worked and the way they traveled. Our host notes that history is the memory of mankind and goes on to discuss more about...