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"T" is for the Town Theatre. [1919-present] Columbia. Longest continuously operating community theatre in the United States.Audio
"T" is for the Town Theatre. [1919-present] Columbia. Longest continuously operating community theatre in the United States.Audio
"C" is for Carson, Jane Caroline Petigru.Audio
“G” is for Jonathan Green [b. 1955]. Painter, print maker. Born in Gardens Corner in Beaufort County, Green served in the Air Force before enrolling as a textile design student at the East Grand Forks...Audio
“L” is for Lott, Robert Bretley [b. 1958]. Author, educator. A native of California, Lott received his MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Though reared in California, he considers...Photo
Not all baptisms were held out of doors. Laura Glenn Douglas (see Laura Glenn Douglas) painted this interior of an African-American Baptist church around 1938. Courtesy of the South Carolina State...Photo
A remarkable African slave craftsman in the Edgefield area, known only as "Dave," produced this pot, whose design is distinctly African in form. Courtesy of the South Carolina State Museum.Photo
A modern basket maker, Jannie Cohen, demonstrates her mastery of this ancient African skill. Courtesy of the South Carolina State Museum.Photo
A group of Penn School baskets, illustrating their many forms, as well as the beauty that made them an important craft that Sea Island residents could sell as the tourist industry began to expand in...Photo
The first basket teacher at the Penn School worked to revive and perpetuate the African basket making skills among the children of the Sea Islands. The baskets made had a wide range of utilitarian...