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Grades: 6 7 8

Roseline Delisle A Closer Look Octet 2 Blue is an abstract form, but it could almost be a twirling dancer in a billowing skirt. Roseline Delisle calls her sculptures "humanistic." She imagines that...

The Upcountry | A Natural State

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Grades: 6 7 8

South Carolina's Upcountry is located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and includes the following counties: Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens and Spartanburg. There are...

Thoroughbred Country | A Natural State

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Grades: 6 7 8

Thoroughbred Country includes Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg and Barnwell counties in Western South Carolina. Equestrian activities are very popular here.

Santee Cooper Country | A Natural State

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Grades: 6 7 8

Santee Cooper Country is made up of the five counties of Berkeley, Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg and Sumter. Visit lakes and rivers, museums, parks, flower gardens, plantation homes, nature trails...

Pee Dee Country | A Natural State

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Pee Dee area was originally home to the Pee Dee Indians. Due to the abundant wildlife, this area is very popular with hunters and fishermen. The Great Pee Dee is just one of the rivers that...

Olde English District | A Natural State

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Grades: 6 7 8

The Olde English District is comprised of the seven counties of Chester, Chesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Union and York. This county was named for the English settlement that was founded...

Old 96 District | A Natural State

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Grades: 6 7 8

The Old 96 District is comprised of Abbeville, Edgefield, Greenwood, Laurens and McCormick counties. Ninety Six was the site of the first Southern land battle of the Revolutionary War. The Burt-Stark...

Myrtle Beach & The Grand Strand | A Natural State

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Myrtle Beach and Grand Strand stretches over 60 miles along the Atlantic Coast, and is comprised of Georgetown and Horry counties. In addition to swimming, sunning, boating, shelling and golfing...

Low Country & Resort Area | A Natural State

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Lowcountry Region is comprised of Hampton, Jasper, Beaufort and Colleton counties. As expected, due to its coastal location, fishing, sailing, hunting, bird watching, paddling, surfing...

Historic Charleston | A Natural State

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Historic Charleston is comprised of Charleston and Dorchester counties. Historic Charleston has 73 pre-Revolutionary buildings - 136 from the late 18th century and more than 600 others built prior to...

Capital City & Lake Murray Country | A Natural State

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Grades: 6 7 8

This area is made up of the counties of Saluda, Newberry, Richland and Lexington. Visit historical southern homes, state museums, and Riverbanks Zoo. Lake Murray is a haven for all types of water...

Modern Aboriginal Poetry of Australia | A World of Poetry

Episode 11

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Modern Aboriginal Poetry of Australia The songs and oral poems of the aborigines of Australia have been passed down for thousands of years. The poems explore their historical and spiritual connection...

The Inuit of the Arctic Circle | A World of Poetry

Episode 3

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Inuit of the Arctic Circle The Inuit culture has survived in some of the coldest, most remote parts of the world. Home to the Inuit is the Arctic landscape of Greenland and the northern parts of...

Mary Pickford | Artopia

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Grades: 6 7 8

Illustration by Maria Manhattan 1892-1979 Mary Pickford, “America’s Sweetheart,” was born Gladys Louise Smith on April 8, 1892 in Toronto, Canada. She began acting at the age of five. Supremely...

Ping Chong | Artopia

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Grades: 6 7 8

Illustration by Maria Manhattan Ping Chong was born in 1946 to a Chinese opera family in Toronto, Canada and spent his youth in New York’s Chinatown neighborhood, which influenced the themes explored...

Assemblage - Coke Bottle | Artopia

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Grades: 6 7 8

Howard Finster A Closer Look Howard Finster liked to decorate objects with paintings of things that were familiar to him. This piece is a prefabricated bottle that he has painted. It has a cylindrical...

Radio - John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address | Artopia

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address (1961) A Closer Look John F. Kennedy rode to his inauguration with the outgoing president, Dwight Eisenhower. Robert Frost read one of his poems at the ceremony...

Roots in the River, Part 2 | Carolina Stories

Episode 2

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Grades: 1 3

Bottomland hardwood forests once spread out along the banks of all Southern floodplain rivers, covering 15 million acres. Today, all the great Southern river-bottom forests have been cleared or...

Birthplace of Sweet Tea | ETV Shorts

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

In the late 1700s, a French botanist landed on Middleton Place in Summerville, South Carolina bringing the first tea plants to the United States. The Lowcountry is also home to the only tea plantation...

Strawberry Hill USA | ETV Shorts

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

This family-owned market in Gaffney, S.C. is filled with plenty of fresh fruit along with homemade ice cream! The folks at Strawberry Hill USA in Gaffney talk about their loyal customers who become...

Charleston Tea Plantation | ETV Shorts

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Teeming with originality and history, the Charleston Tea Plantation on Wadmalaw Island in South Carolina is busy with not only workers cultivating crop but also visitors from around the world. The tea...

Teacher Cadet Program | ETV Shorts

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Teacher Cadet program is a high school recruitment program aimed at attracting the state's best and brightest students into the teaching profession. The program provides a hands-on curriculum...

Tony the Peanut Man | ETV Shorts

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Right in the heart of Market Street, Tony the Peanut Man is an iconic figure, not only for his enthusiastic personality, but for his delicious boiled peanuts! The town of Charleston, as well as the...

Dark Corner Distillery | ETV Shorts

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Grades: 9 10 11 12

Nestled in the hills of the South Carolina Upcountry lies a mysterious place known as the Dark Corner. Back in the early 1900s, the Dark Corner was famous for one thing—moonshine. Decades later, two...