Walter Edgar's Journal

A city that has nearly five million visitors a year definitely needs a tourism management plan. And Charleston, SC, has one, which has been revised several times since its creation in 1978. Now, it's time to craft a totally new plan, and Historic Charleston Foundation's Katharine Robinson has been tasked with leading the committee responsible. She talks with Walter Edgar about the challenges and o...

(UNESCO UK) - All Stations: Fri, Oct 31, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Nov 2, 2014 - The Magna Carta is a charter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his assent in June 1215 at Runnymede in June of 1215. It is also considered by many to be a cornerstone of human rights to which the U. S. Constitution's Bill of Rights can trace its ancestry. Join Dr. Edgar to talk about...

(Travis Dove) Deb Richardson-Moore, a middle-aged suburban mom and journalist was inspired to become a pastor after writing a story exploring God’s call in our lives. Seven years ago, a recent graduate of Erskine Theological Seminary, she took a position as pastor of the non-denominational Triune Mercy Center, an inner-city mission to the homeless in Greenville, S.C. “What I found there absolutely...

(Courtesy of the author)     In  The Hurricane Sisters  (2014, Harper Collins), Dorothea Benton Frank again takes us deep into the heart of her magical South Carolina Lowcountry on a tumultuous journey filled with longings, disappointments, and, finally, a road toward happiness that is hard earned. There we meet three generations of women buried in secrets. The determined matriarch, Maisie Pringle...

All Stations: Fri, Oct 3, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, Oct 5, 4 pm  Dr. Charles H. Lippy, the LeRoy A. Martin distinguished Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and author of Religion in South Carolina will be giving a lecture in October at Ebenezer Lutheran Church, Columbia, on How the Civil War Transformed Religion in South Carolina . He stops by o...

 (Originally broadcast 04/18/14) - In his 2013 memoir,  The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and his Son ,   author Pat Conroy admits that his father, Don, is the basis of abusive fighter pilot he created for the title role of his novel,  The Great Santini , and that his mother, Peg, and his brothers and sisters have all served as models for characters in  The Prince of Tides  and his other...

(Originally broadcast 04/04/14) - Pat Conroy, author of  The Water is Wide ,  The Great Santini ,  The Prince of Tides ,  The Death of  Santini, joins Dr. Walter Edgar for an event celebrating the author’s life;  his work; and  One Book, One Columbia ’s 2014 selection,  My Reading Life  (Nan A. Talese, 2010). The conversation was recorded before an audience of over 2000, at Columbia’s Township Aud...

(USC McKissick Musuem) All Stations: Fri, 09/12/14, 12 pm | News Stations: Sun, 09/14/14, 4 pm Walter Edgar's Journal:    Showcasing objects drawn from Native American Indian tribal museums, state museums, artist collections, private collections, as well as McKissick Museum’s own permanent collection, Traditions, Change, and Celebration: Native Artists of the Southeast considers Native American tr...

(Originally Broadcast 02/28/14) - Begun as an open letter to strangers and fellow misfits,  The Minus Times  grew to become a hand-typed literary magazine that showcased the next generation of American fiction. Contributors include Sam Lipsyte, David Berman, Patrick DeWitt, and Wells Tower, with illustrations by David Eggers and Brad Neely as well as interviews with Dan Clowes, Barry Hannah, and a...

Dr. Melissa Walker is the author of numerous books on the Civil War and is co-editor of Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War (USC Press, 2011). She talks with Dr. Walter Edgar about the role of “plain folk”—especially women—during the war. This presentation was recorded at the University of South Carolina’s Capstone Conference Center, in Columbia, on January 28, and was part of the series “Convers...

In May of 2013, a one-story, rectangular, weatherboard-clad, 19th-century slave cabin was dismantled at the Point of Pines Plantation on Edisto Island, SC, and transferred to the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s  National Museum of African American History and Culture , in Washington, DC. The reconstructed cabin will be on view in the “Slavery and Freedom” exhibition when the museum ope...

(Coal Powered Filmworks) (Broadcast August 23, 2013) - In April of 2013, an Army veteran from South Carolina returned to Okinawa, Japan, for the first time since he fought there in World War II. Retired Col. Ted Bell, 93, went back to the island after more than 67 years, this time with a film crew for South Carolina ETV, shooting part of the upcoming documentary, Man and Moment: Ted Bell and the R...

(Matt Walsh Matt Walsh (mwalsh@thestate.com)) (Broadcast November 02, 2012) - The Emmy-nominated documentary television series (produced in partnership by  ETV  and  The State  newspaper),  South Carolinians in World War II , returns to ETV November 8th with its latest episode, A World War.  Joining Dr. Edgar to talk about this episode, and the war, are John Rainey, co-creator of the series; Wade...

(Matt Walsh Matt Walsh (mwalsh@thestate.com)) (Broadcast November 04, 2011) - About 184,000 South Carolinians served in World War II, and thousands more, who moved here after the war.  ETV  and  The State  newspaper partnered together to tell the stories of these veterans in their own words. The result is a new Emmy-nominated documentary series, South Carolinians in World War II. The series return...

(Broadcast May 20, 2011) - 184,000 South Carolinians served in World War II. South Carolinians in WWII is ETV's 3-part series that tells the story of some of these veterans. Series co-executive producer John Rainey and producer/director Jeff Wilkinson will join Dr. Edgar to talk tell some of the extraordinary stories of South Carolinians in World War II and talk about the series' second episode. A...

(Originally broadcast 03/06/2009) - On November 16th, 2008, a dream came true for Columbia restaurateur Bill Dukes as he and about 90 World War II veterans began a flight to Washington, DC, to see the WWII Memorial. For many of the veterans, a visit to the Memorial, dedicated in 2004, was something they would probably never have dreamed of, much less done. Honor Flight South Carolina is a non-prof...