By Jessica Holdman | Reporter
Good morning South Carolina.
A panel of state senators convene this morning to discuss tax policy in the Palmetto State in preparation for the upcoming legislative session in January. Reporter Skylar Laird will be on hand to hear what the legislators have to say.
“History can feel distant until something brings you closer to the people who lived it.” - Kellen Butler, executive director of the Friends of the Hunley on a new, state-funded exhibit at the Charleston Museum about the submarine.
The preserved H.L. Hunley Submarine is on display at the Friends of the Hunley museum and Clemson University’s Warren Lasch Conservation Center in North Charleston. (Photo courtesy of Friends of the Hunley)
By Jessica Holdman
A silk bandana worn around a crew member’s neck. A boot that still bears the footprint of the man who wore it. And a brass oil can with oil still inside. These are among items recovered and preserved from the Confederate submarine, the H.L. Hunley, which was lost at sea for more than a century.
By Jessica Holdman
Dec. 19 marks 225 years since the founding of South Carolina’s flagship university.
“But we’re not going to wait to start celebrating,” University of South Carolina President Michael Amiridis told attendees of the annual State of the University address Wednesday.
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