Hi. Im jessica, and it is a pleasure to be here today with the Honors College students and the university of South Carolinas 421 course with the south made exhibiting South Carolinas industrial past. I want to start with a quote. This quote comes from a very prominent american historian. A guy named ed ayres who wrote, while the coal mines and textile mills have become a visible and memorable part of southern history, the souths largest industry has remained virtually ignored. Lumbering is often written off as if little consequence and little dramatic interest. Yet, lumbering more often than any other industry captures the full scope of economic change in the new south. Its limitations as well as its impact. And we are about i dont know, a third of the way through the semester and i think you guys are already convinced of this. But, i thought it might be interesting to share with you a little bit more about how we got to this place. So, about five or six years ago the National Park Ser
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Into searing fiction. Woodruff and, migrants from the middle east and north africa push to enter europe thousands march into serbia after borders reopen. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff they cheered the closing bell on wall street today, out of relief that the day was over. The major u. S. Indexes fell 3. 5 4 , driven by market chaos in china. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 588 points to close near 15,870. The nasdaq fell nearly 180 points, and the s p 500 dropped 77. U. S. Oil prices also dropped sharply again, closing near 38 a barrel. Well take you through this dizzying day after the news summary. North and south korea
Woodruff and, migrants from the middle east and north africa push to enter europe thousands march into serbia after borders reopen. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff they cheered the closing bell on wall street today, out of relief that the day was over. The major u. S. Indexes fell 3. 5 4 , driven by market chaos in china. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 588 points to close near 15,870. The nasdaq fell nearly 180 points, and the s p 500 dropped 77. U. S. Oil prices also dropped sharply again, closing near 38 a barrel. Well take you through this dizzying day after the news summary. North and south korea pulled back today fro
So christian green is a newspaper journalist, the author of the Devils Half Acre the untold story of how one woman liberated the south, the most notorious slave jail, and the New York Times bestseller of some things must something must be done about Prince Edward county, which receives a library of virginia literary award for nonfiction and the peoples choice award and for two decades, greene has worked for several newspapers, including the boston globe, the san diego uniontribune, the Richmond Times dispatch. And greene also holds a masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy school. She currently resides in richmond, virginia, with her two daughters and ben raines is an Award Winning environmental journalist, filmmaker and charter captain who lives in fairhope, alabama. Range is the author of the last slave ship the true story of how the clotilde was found, her descendants and extraordinaire ari reckoning and raines wrote and directed the underwater forest. An Award Win