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by Saddler Taylor, Chief Curator of Folklife & Fieldwork at McKissick Museum. “Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the...
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by Saddler Taylor, Chief Curator of Folklife and Fieldwork, McKissick Museum. Original article appeared in the Fall 2006 issue of "Edible Lowcountry" Magazine. Barbecue in South Carolina is a story of...
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by Emily Enloe. Enloe is a Dance Education major in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This paper was written for the Spring 2009 class "Folklore and Film." A classic movie about a boy trying...
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by Beth Hinson. Hinson is an International Studies student in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This paper was written for the Fall 2007 class "Folklife in America." I have decided to address...
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Booker T. Washington High School, Class of 1933, seated on the lawn in front of the main entrance to the school. Founded in 1916, the school was, until its closing in 1974, the hub of the separate...
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The first graded school in St. Matthews, photographed around 1910. A campaign to improve rural schools in the late 19th century replaced many one-room schools, in which all students were taught by a...
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The Avery Institute in Charleston. The Avery Normal Institute was established by the American Missionary Association in the spring of 1865, and initially named after the New York abolitionist Lewis...
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The original building of the Penn School photographed around 1890. The Penn School, located on St. Helena's Island, was the first school for freed African-Americans opened by northerners in the South...
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The Camden Male Academy was conducted as a semi-military academy, training young men in martial skills by Charles H. Peek in Camden from 1859 until his death in 1863. Many of the cadets, shown here in...
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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.