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)

Jehu Jones | Palmetto Special

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The lesson contains scenes with two of Jones' more prominent guests, portrait painter, Samuel F B Morse (later to gain fame with the telegraph and the Morse code) and famed British actor, William Kean...
Rice Cultivation

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The Reenactment: The opening scene is the Hot and Hot Fish Club at Waccamaw Neck, c.1850. Young Paul Weston is playing a game of billiards with Hugh Fraser and lamenting his father's recent death.They...
Agricultural Depression | Palmetto Special

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The opening and closing wraparounds take place by an old abandoned tenant farm house in Pickens County near Clemson University. Here the host establishes the location and story line. The Reenactment...
Charlesfort | Palmetto Special

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This episode goes from Columbia to Parris Island in Beaufort County. Parris Island today is the home of a large Marine Corps training base. There is a monument there, similar in the design to one...

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