Palmetto Special

Grades 6-12

Using site visitations, dramatizations, interviews, visuals, and historic photographs and illustrations, this series explores South Carolina history. Produced by Daniel H. Pipes, the series not only teaches students the history of South Carolina, but helps them appreciate their state. (From our Streamline collection)

Transportation in SC | Palmetto Special

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The lesson deals primarily with the development of roads, railroads, and canals in South Carolina. The program is in a basic documentary form and was done entirely on location. Comparisons are made to...
S.C. in the Space Age | Palmetto Special

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Colonel Charles Bolden is a native of Columbia, South Carolina. He was educated at W. A. Perry Junior High School and C. A. Johnson High School where his father was football coach and his mother, the...
The Regulators | Palmetto Special

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In this section, the "Palmetto Special" leaves Columbia and travels to Spartanburg County. At the beginning of the program the Fall Line is defined, along with an introduction to the backcountry, the...
Soil Bank | Palmetto Special

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This lesson presents a dramatic episode of a fictional family living near Batesurg in Lexington County in the mid 1950's. They are having economic difficulties and make a decision to place some of...
Thomas Sumter, The Gamecock | Palmetto Special

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At the battle of Fishdam Ford on the Broad River, Thomas Sumter had an opportunity to get personal revenge on a man who hours earlier had attempted to kill him. This segment depicts the events that...
Gullah Culture

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Ron and Natalie Daise of Beaufort, South Carolina, share Negro Spirituals during their Gullah-based performance. This was excerpted from the full show, Gullah Culture.
Studying Local History | Palmetto Special

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The opening and closing wraparounds are in front of the restored "Big Apple." Originally a synagogue, the building was sold in the 1930's to a black man and converted to a night club. Here originated...
Andrew Pickens, the Wizard Owl | Palmetto Special

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The television lesson includes a segment on each man designed to give an insight into his character. Andrew Pickens had been parolled by the British in Charleston when that city was captured in May...

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