12.7K
Downloads
166
Episodes
Official Podcast of the South Carolina State Library
Episodes
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Dr. Curtis Rogers learns all about sharks with North Carolina author, W. Clay Creswell. Clay has been a North and South Carolina region shark-bite investigator for the Shark Research Institute Global Shark Attack File since 2004. In this role, he has become a trusted media resource for the National Geographic Channel's series When Sharks Attack and local television, newspaper, and online news outlets. He is an environmental health program specialist with the Pender County Health Department in North Carolina and is the author of Sharks in the Shallows: Attacks on the Carolina Coast published by the University of South Carolina Press.
Transcript of Sharks in the Shallows with Clay Creswell - Episode 142
Additional resources:
Thursday May 27, 2021
Thursday May 27, 2021
Dr. Curtis Rogers discusses cheese biscuits and more with South Carolina author, Mary Martha Green. Mary is a South Carolina native and government relations consultant who perfected her entertaining skills for making friends and engaging clients during her forty-year career. Now as a volunteer, she teaches cooking skills to at-risk and homeless youth and is the author of The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All: Southern Recipes, Sweet Remembrances, and a Little Rambunctious Behavior published by the University of South Carolina Press.
Transcript of The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All with Mary Martha Greene - Episode 141
Additional resources:
- Cookbooks with Virginia featuring Mary Martha Greene of The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All (Video)
- From 2004: Sanford's pigs leave lawmakers squealing (from The State newspaper)
- SC State Library Foundation
- Fiction Addiction
Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
Dr. Curtis Rogers discusses The Growing Season with author and farmer, Sarah Frey. Sarah has been described by The New York Times as “the Pumpkin Queen of America.” She sells more pumpkins than any other producer in the United States. Her family business, Frey Farms, plants thousands of acres of fruits and vegetables in Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, and West Virginia. Her recent book, The Growing Season (published by Ballantine Books) introduces readers to how she built a new life and saved an American farm.
Transcript of The Growing Season with Sarah Frey - Episode 140
Additional resources:
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Dr. Curtis Rogers discusses a new guidebook to the SC State House with Dr. Lydia Mattice Brandt. Lydia is an architectural historian, historic preservationist, and associate professor of art history at the University of South Carolina here in Columbia. She is the author of First in the Homes of His Countrymen: George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American Imagination and many articles published in Winterthur Portfolio, Antiques & Fine Art, and the Public Historian, and her recent publication is The South Carolina State House Grounds: A Guidebook published by the University of South Carolina Press.
Transcript of The South Carolina State House Grounds with Dr. Lydia Mattice Brandt - Episode 139
Additional resources:
Monday Apr 05, 2021
Monday Apr 05, 2021
Dr. Curtis Rogers discusses a new book from the University of South Carolina Press with Dr. Daniel Harrison. He is the author of Live at Jackson Station, a book about a rhythm and blues club in rural Hodges, South Carolina, in the 1980s that brought a very metropolitan vibe to the sleepy town – but! It has a true-crime angle. Dr. Harrison is a professor of sociology at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina, and also the author of Making Sense of Marshall Ledbetter: The Dark Side of Political Protest.
Transcript of Live at Jackson Station with Dan Harrison - Episode 138
Additional resources: