Palmetto Past & Present: Remembering the Big Snow of ’73
"Winter’s Wrath ’26 has nothing on the Blizzard of ’73..."...
Palmetto Past & Present
Palmetto Past & Present: Gilbert Bates’ Excellent Adventure
by Mark Powell
"I can carry that flag myself from the Mississippi River all over the rebel states, alone and unarmed, too..."...
Palmetto Past & Present: The Day America Stood in Awe of South Carolina
by Mark Powell
Nearly 200 years ago, South Carolina was on the cutting edge of one of the Industrial Revolution's biggest accomplishments......
Palmetto Past & Present: The Great Charleston Fire
by Mark Powell
“No tongue can describe, no pen portray the awfulness of the scene..."...
Palmetto Past & Present: Got Your Thanksgiving Chicken Pie Ready?
by Mark Powell
A culinary connection......
Palmetto Past & Present: Heroism, Human Shields And The Immortal 600
by Mark Powell
"It's easy to romanticize the Civil War as a chivalrous affair, the final swords and roses struggle of a bygone age. The reality was anything...
Palmetto Past & Present: South Carolina’s Rosa Parks
by Mark Powell
The story of Sarah Mae Flemming......
Palmetto Past & Present: The Sad Saga Of A South Carolina Nazi Sympathizer
by Mark Powell
Robert Henry Best's ignominious place in American history began and ended in the Palmetto State......
Palmetto Past & Present: Fort Sumter’s Two Surrenders
by Mark Powell
How the bluster of a hotheaded South Carolina "colonel" nearly extended the first engagement in the War Between the States....
Palmetto Past & Present: Lafayette Is In The House!
by Mark Powell
A victory lap for the ages....