About Palmetto Special

This overview acquaints students and teachers with The Palmetto Special series and how to utilize the SC History content in the classroom.

 

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Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Agricultural Depression | Palmetto Special

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Agricultural Depression | Palmetto Special
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...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Andrew Pickens, the Wizard Owl | Palmetto Special

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Andrew Pickens, the Wizard Owl | Palmetto Special
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...
Industrialization | Palmetto Special Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special

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Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special
The host ties the reenactment together at various intervals in the story in various spots around Columbia that are particularly associated with Sherman's invasion, such as the area across the Congaree...
Carolina Indians | Palmetto Special

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Carolina Indians | Palmetto Special
The lesson consists of the host and three students visiting Keowee-Toxaway State Park in Pickens County. The story of the Cherokee is told there through drawings and artifacts in a series of display...
Carolina Style | Palmetto Special

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Carolina Style | Palmetto Special
This lesson is a brief survey of the art, architecture, literature and theatre of South Carolina. It opens with a series of skits where "comedic characters" "put down" South Carolina's interest in...
Charles Town | Palmetto Special

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Charles Town | Palmetto Special
A dramatic sequence is included in this wraparound. It is an analogy to the eight Lords Proprietors receiving the grant of Carolina from King Charles II. Five people gather for lunch to discuss a...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Charlesfort | Palmetto Special

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Charlesfort | Palmetto Special
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...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Denmark Vesey's Plot | Palmetto Special

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Denmark Vesey's Plot | Palmetto Special
The program begins with Vesey discussing the condition of slavery with an acquaintance who is a slave Later, at a meeting, details of the plot are worked out with co-conspirators including Peter Poyas...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Field to Factory | Palmetto Special

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Field to Factory | Palmetto Special
This program is based on an oral history conducted by the New Jersey Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project. The subject is a black woman who moved with her family from South Carolina to New Jersey in the...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Fort Sumter | Palmetto Special

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Fort Sumter | Palmetto Special
REENACTMENT: Four of the principals at Fort Sumter discuss in retrospect events that led to the "firing of the first shot of the Civil War." These people are: Major Robert Anderson; Commander of the...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox | Palmetto Special

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Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox | Palmetto Special
Francis Marion was involved in a number of skirmishes that caught the enemy off guard, forced them to reckon with him, thus allowing other patriot forces to conduct their missions with greater success...
Governor Robert Johnson | Palmetto Special

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Governor Robert Johnson | Palmetto Special
REENACTMENT: The reenactment begins with Simpson, an aide to Governor Robert Johnson, lamenting the death of the Governor. Through flashbacks we see Simpson and Johnson at crucial times during the...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Gullah Culture

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Gullah Culture
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.
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Gullah Culture

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Gullah Culture
This is an excerpt from the full episode, Gullah Culture. Ron Daise shares the story, "Bring My Clock Back."
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Gullah Culture | The Palmetto Special

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Gullah Culture | The Palmetto Special
With bridges from the islands to the mainland, the advent of radio and television, and the simple passage of time, this unique culture and language has been eroding. Ron and Natalie Daise of Beaufort...
Industrialization

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Industrialization
A dramatic scene follows with William Gregg discussing the virtues of a diversified economy in South Carolina with friends of his. Then he happens upon a young man playing hooky at a pond near the...
Industrialization | Palmetto Special

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Industrialization | Palmetto Special
The lesson begins at the Wilson Tennis Ball factory in Fountain Inn. Here we see a montage in the process of making tennis balls The host then mentions that there are many other products made in the...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special James F. Byrnes | Palmetto Special

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James F. Byrnes | Palmetto Special
This lesson consists of film and videotapes taken from events in Mr. Byrnes' career. We are fortunate in this program that we can actually see and hear Mr. Byrnes himself. The news films were...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Jehu Jones | Palmetto Special

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Jehu Jones | Palmetto Special
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...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special John C. Calhoun | Palmetto Special

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John C. Calhoun | Palmetto Special
"The Palmetto Special" goes to John C. Calhoun's old homeplace, Fort Hill on the Clemson campus. Four students, who also appear in the dramatic portion, tour the mansion and grounds. The conclusion of...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Kings Mountain Bicentennial | Palmetto Special

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Kings Mountain Bicentennial | Palmetto Special
This program on the Battle of Kings Mountain follows a documentary format. It centers around the Bicentennial Celebration in September and October of 1980. The activities that were covered as a part...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Reconstruction | Palmetto Special

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Reconstruction | Palmetto Special
The Reconstruction period will perhaps always be one of the most controversial in South Carolina's history. In this lesson we use a number of vignettes tied together, by the host, to present various...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Rice Cultivation

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Rice Cultivation
Paul then leaves to check on some trucks at one of his plantations. There he visits two slaves, Tricia and John Judah, who describe for him the functional operation of the Trunk System. This was...
Rice Cultivation

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Rice Cultivation
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...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Rice Cultivation | Palmetto Special

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Rice Cultivation | Palmetto Special
Three students take a field trip in "The Palmetto Special" as it travels from Columbia to Georgetown. After a brief stop at Poinsett State Park in Sumter County, the van arrives in Georgetown where...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Robert Smalls | Palmetto Special

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Robert Smalls | Palmetto Special
REENACTMENT: The lesson focuses on a mission in which Robert Smalls was sent to convince President Lincoln to arm Negro troops in the South Carolina Lowcountry to fight for the Union. This is done in...
S.C. in the Space Age | Palmetto Special

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S.C. in the Space Age | Palmetto Special
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...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special S.C. Revolutionary War Leaders | Palmetto Special

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S.C. Revolutionary War Leaders | Palmetto Special
MARION, SUMTER, PICKENS Thomas Sumter, the "Gamecock," Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," and Andrew Pickens, the "Wizard Owl" are perhaps the best known of South Carolina's Revolutionary War leaders...
SC Economy | Palmetto Special

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SC Economy | Palmetto Special
The lesson begins with a young man making an "economic decision" concerning the purchase of a pair of running shoes. The host defines economics beginning with, "Economics is that branch of the social...
Secession, Part 1 | Palmetto Special

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Secession, Part 1 | Palmetto Special
The program on "Secession" is divided into two parts, each approximately 18 minutes in length. The five main characters, William, Allen, Jenny, Missy, and Allen's father are fictitious. The political...
Secession, Part 2 | Palmetto Special

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Secession, Part 2 | Palmetto Special
The program on "Secession" is divided into two parts, each approximately 18 minutes in length. The five main characters, William, Allen, Jenny, Missy, and Allen's father are fictitious. The political...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Soil Bank | Palmetto Special

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Soil Bank | Palmetto Special
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...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Studying Local History | Palmetto Special

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Studying Local History | Palmetto Special
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...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special The Beautiful Phantom of Daisy Bank | Palmetto Special

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The Beautiful Phantom of Daisy Bank | Palmetto Special
This prograrn was adapted from a story in the book, The Return of the Gray Man, by Julian Stevenson Bolick. It was produced on location, but not necessarily where the story supposedly takes place. No...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special The Charleston Tea Party, 1774 | Palmetto Special

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The Charleston Tea Party, 1774 | Palmetto Special
Following the Tea Act of 1773 many colonial citizens refused to pay the duty and boycotted British tea This program deals with actions taken by some citizens of Charleston in November and December...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special The Hunley | Palmetto Special

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The Hunley | Palmetto Special
The video location is at the Naval Polaris Missile Base in North Charleston. This is the largest submarine base on the east coast today. Learn about the sinking of the U.S.S. Housatonic by the Hunley...
The Legend of Isaqueena | Palmetto Special

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The Legend of Isaqueena | Palmetto Special
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 frontier of South...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special The Regulators | Palmetto Special

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The Regulators | Palmetto Special
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...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special The Statehouse | Palmetto Special

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The Statehouse | Palmetto Special
The host and several students provide the viewer a tour of the State House grounds and inside the building. The emphasis is on its history and appearance, rather than on the operation of state...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Thomas Sumter, The Gamecock | Palmetto Special

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Thomas Sumter, The Gamecock | Palmetto Special
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...
Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special Tillman-Gonzales Murder Trial | Palmetto Special

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Tillman-Gonzales Murder Trial | Palmetto Special
The video take place at the corner of Main and Gervais Streets in Columbia, same site where the murder occurred. In addition, the host comes in and out of reenactment of the trial to tie the segments...
Transportation in SC | Palmetto Special

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Transportation in SC | Palmetto Special
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...