Blogs in July 2020

Carolina Girls 10th July 2020

They were Carolina Girls, the best in the world, and they came together in the mid-Sixties on Pawleys Island, where life began to mold them into the women they would later become. Each summer they would return to Pawleys...

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Slaves in the Family 9th July 2020

Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family’s slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls’ South Carolina plantations. It is an unprecedented family record that reveals how...

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Lying Beneath the Oaks 9th July 2020

Molly Todd wakes up in a Vegas parking lot with a headache, a virtual stranger, and a wedding ring. Jobless and broke, she’s left with no other option but to go home with new husband Cooper Middleton to the...

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Purple Jesus 9th July 2020

When Purvis Driggers, a South Carolina Low Country loser with little judgment and even less chance for a decent life beyond his parents’ house, home town, and whatever part-time work he can scrounge up, seeks to rob an old...

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Sweetgrass 9th July 2020

Sweetgrass is a historical tract of land in South Carolina that has been home to the Blakely family for eight generations. But Sweetgrass — named for the indigenous grass that grows in the area — is in trouble. Bulldozers are leveling...

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