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: The year is 1943. Ben Robertson, a noted journalist and native South Carolinian from the "red hills and cotton" area around Clemson, is in a military airport near New York awaiting boarding the "Yankee Clipper" to take him to London where he had been assigned as a correspondent for the New York Herald-Tribune. While waiting, he has a conversation with Bill Winchester (a fictional character). In this conversation Ben tells of his boyhood days growing up in South Carolina near Clemson. This conversation includes a series of flashbacks.
In these flashbacks, Ben and his two boyhood friends, Harve and Popcorn, discuss their plans for the future; Ben's father, a landowner, talks with one of his tenants; Ben, Harve and Popcorn meet at the train station as Harve and Popcorn prepare to go north for what they hope will be a better future. Also at the station is Winnie Mae, another friend headed north.
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: The year is 1943. Ben Robertson, a noted journalist and native South Carolinian from the "red hills and cotton" area around Clemson, is in a military airport near New York awaiting boarding the "Yankee Clipper" to take him to London where he had been assigned as a correspondent for the New York Herald-Tribune. While waiting, he has a conversation with Bill Winchester (a fictional character). In this conversation Ben tells of his boyhood days growing up in South Carolina near Clemson. This conversation includes a series of flashbacks.
In these flashbacks, Ben and his two boyhood friends, Harve and Popcorn, discuss their plans for the future; Ben's father, a landowner, talks with one of his tenants; Ben, Harve and Popcorn meet at the train station as Harve and Popcorn prepare to go north for what they hope will be a better future. Also at the station is Winnie Mae, another friend headed north.
Standards
- 4.5.P Summarize Reconstruction as a turning point in American history.
- 4.5.CC Identify and evaluate the impact of economic, political, and social events on the African American experience throughout Reconstruction.
- 4.5.E Analyze multiple perspectives of the economic, political, and social effects of Reconstruction on different populations in the South and in other regions of the U.S.
- 5.1.CX Contextualize how the Second Industrial Revolution led to an increased desire for raw materials and the United States involvement in imperialistic efforts and economic expansion.
- 5.1.CE Examine push- and pull-factors related to immigration and expansion on urban and rural populations during the period.
- 5.1.E Analyze multiple perspectives on the economic, political, and social effects of western expansion, the Industrial Revolution, and immigration through primary and secondary sources, and evaluate the subsequent changes to the U.S.
- 8.4.P Summarize the economic changes that emerged in South Carolina and the U.S.
- 8.5.P Analyze the transformation of South Carolina’s economy from the Great Depression to its current economic diversification.
- This indicator was designed to promote inquiry into the devastation of the Great Depression and the impact of the New Deal on a largely agricultural South Carolina. This indicator was also designed to foster inquiry into the economic diversification between World War II and the present, to include tourism, global trade and industry, and the maintenance of military bases.
Resources
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.
View AssetAndrew 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...
View AssetBurning 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...
View AssetCarolina 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...
View AssetCarolina 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...
View AssetCharles 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...
View AssetCharlesfort | 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...
View AssetDenmark 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...
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